Paul Leger Quilts

 I live in Ottawa, Canada where I worked for the federal government for 16 years after spending 21 years in the Canadian Armed Forces, I retired on September 1, 2016. My journey in quilting in began in May 1990. My mother, Doris Bourque-Léger, a quilter and dressmaker, encouraged me to buy a sewing machine for sewing emergencies. One day, I got the idea to cut up the good parts of some old air force uniform shirts. "Why?" you ask - at the time I had no idea. After a few days, I recalled that in the old days people would use clothing to make bed quilts, so I set off to cut up more old shirts in an isosceles trapezoid shape, using SURGICAL SCISSORS!

     I sewed the pieces together based on an idea in my mind. “The corners weren't square,” nor were the blocks. I ran out of fabric pieces, so I made my first trip to a quilting shop, the Cloth Castle in Langford, British Columbia. There I got advice and bought more fabric. First top completed and liking the process so much, I had a second quilt top completed before I had sent the first one to my mother for quilting.

     I took my first quilting course in September 1994 from Joan Winter in Barrie, Ontario, near the armed forces base where I was stationed. After moving to Ottawa in 1996, I joined my first guild. I took more courses and began to buy quilting books and lots of fabrics. Quilting has become my passion. I have made over 275 more quilts since then, I’ve never looked back. 

Over the year’s I’ve been fortunate to have been published and interviewed by some of the finest in the industry. To see the list click here.

To view my resume please click here.