Knots and Stitches: Community Quilts Across the Harbour

In 1979, Kristin Miller and her partner hitched a ride on a fishboat to a remote community across the harbour from Prince Rupert, BC. Together, they imagined settling down in this rustic paradise. But that dream fell apart and Kristin moved in alone. Bereft, angry, and in fragile health after a disastrous failed pregnancy and a faltering marriage, she sought refuge in the cabin to harbour her grief. The support of the open-hearted hippies, hermits, fishermen, and adventurous women living across the harbour helped Kristin heal physically and emotionally. Friends gave advice about storms, fog, and outboard motors, and though often scared, Kristin became stronger and braver and grew to love the sea. The women taught her to can salmon and beachcomb for firewood. She taught them to quilt. Knots and Stitches: Community Quilts Across the Harbour is a touching memoir about the power of community, and a celebration of the stalwart women who honed their nautical skills, fell in and out of love, celebrated life's milestones by making quilts together, and thrived in a harsh and sometimes dangerous environment.

Author: Kristin Miller
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Published: 03/15/2024
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781773861203
ISBN10: 1773861204
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Women

About the Author
Kristin Miller worked as an occupational therapist, housemother at a group home for teens, worked on a fish farm, coordinated a mental health activity program, and then became a professional quilter. Kristin has created hundreds of art quilts and custom quilts, and has involved others in group-made friendship quilts and protest quilts. She is the author of The Careless Quilter: Decide-as-You-Sew, Design-as-You-Go Quiltmaking, and contributed a chapter to Gumboot Girls: Adventure, Love & Survival on the North Coast of British Columbia.