Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada - The 2006 Story Save Quilt

This page updated 12:34 PM Jul 15, 2006

The Story of the StorySave Quilt 2006

Quilt2006

The StorySave quilt has become quite a tradition with Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada. The first quilt was made in 2002 by T.A.L.E.S. (The Alberta Association for Telling and Encouraging Storytelling) as a project to raise money for SC-CC's StorySave project. Raffle tickets were sold at a number of events and at the national conference. It was such a success that Pearl-Ann Gooding called upon storytellers across the country to contribute a square to the next quilt. There has been a quilt every year since then except in 2005, when a Silent Auction was held instead at the conference in Calgary.

Pearl-Ann & Mary Eileen

Here you can see Pearl Ann in action on the left, rallying people at the Annual Meeting in Halifax to buy tickets. Pearl Ann challenged everyone to help reach the target of $1000 worth of tickets sold, and aided and abetted by Mary-Eileen McClear of Baden, Ontario (right), Pearl-Ann is hard to resist. Not only was the target met, but exceeded. The 2006 quilt raised $1140 for StorySave and the happy winner: well, it was our webperson, Elinor Benjamin

A big THANKS to Pearl Anne

To read more about each square, and its contributor and see a bigger picture, click on the individual squares in the table below.