Among Debora Barlow’s most treasured possessions are two quilts. Nearly a century old, delicately stitched, the fabric softened with age.

They were made by her grandmother, a woman who quilted by hand in the 1930s, before rotary cutters, long-arm machines or fancy fabric dyes.

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Barlow never got the chance to sit beside her grandmother and stitch. But those quilts, those tangible pieces of love and labour, planted a seed that would grow into something extraordinary.

Today, Barlow is one of Canada’s most accomplished quilters. She’s long-arm quilted over 3,000 b

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