2016

We have had a great start to this years meetings we have been busy organizing the annual general meet of the irish patchwork society , we have lots of fun things set up for this year including our guest speaker Dorothy Russel , who will be doing a fabulous New york beauty workshop , this will take place on the 1st and 2nd of October 2016 .
We held our open night in January it was a great occasion for us to show off our recent work and got ourselves a few new members  , on the night we had hand and machine appliqué demonstrations , paper piecing and free motion quilting ....

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we had the lovely Ann MArie Hobbs
from the kilboa quilt shoppe










In Febuary ,We have had also had some great demonstrations on machine appliqué by our chair Linda Cowley

 

 We had our "Kathleen Cup" challege it was a hand sewn challenge and Lily Dowling won this year , she is the best at hand sewing .







in february we also started our very own quilting bee inspired by the modern quilters of ireland, Maya was first to be queen bee she chose the polaroid photo blocks and got all the blocks made by all the other participants of the bee

maragret mcevoy is march queen bee she chose these cut lemon and grey blocks 

we had a great lesson from Mary ann Brown who explained how to plan a quilt for an exhibition and how to bring it fromm paper to fabric it was very interesting ......

..... and Therese Roche explained how to prepare a sleeve and a bag for sending off to an exhibition and showed some of her beautiful quilts she has had in exhibitions . thank you both ladies