A four-decade-old quilting guild in New Brunswick has joined forces with a newly established non-profit called Quilts for Survivors in an effort to show solidarity and compassion for residential school survivors in the Maritimes.
“We would just like these folks to, to see this blanket as a gesture of respect, caring, that we hear them, that we see them, that we acknowledge their pain, and support them on their journey, whatever it may be,” said Libby Maskos, president of Kennebecasis Valley Quilting Guild in Quispamsis, a suburb of Saint John.
Maskos said each quilt takes around eight metres of fabric and she
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