Haberdashery an exhibit by the D4 Textile group is open from the 8th November to 5th January at the Phoenix Branch Visitors Centre.
Remix by the Cork Textiles Group is open from 15th November to 22nd December at the Cork School of Music.
There will be an Anniversary Mass for Rita Kelly (South Western Branch in Kerry) at Mount Mellery Abbey Waterford on Thursday 17th November.
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11 November 2016
07 November 2016
28 October 2016
The Irish Patchwork Society and The Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild present:
“Hands Across the Border 2017”
“Aurora”
Official Opening Tuesday 16th May 2017 in CHQ Custom House Quarter, IFSC, Custom House Quay, Dublin Northside, Dublin
Exhibition will run until the 26th May
Northern venue is Lisburn Arts Centre, June 2017
Exhibition Rules and Conditions;
All Irish Patchwork Society and Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild Members are eligible to enter
1. The quilt must consist of a minimum of two layers, although any technique may be used.
2. Size: quilts can be made to a maximum of 1 meter square.
3. The quilt has a free choice of edging treatments.
4. No glass fronted, framed, mounted quilts or quilts made from kits will be allowed.
5. The work should have been completed in the last two years.
6. The quilt must have a 10 cm (4 inch) hanging sleeve, (with sufficient fullness to accommodate the hanging rod).
7. Please ensure that your quilt is labelled on the back at the bottom edge with the following information: Name of the Quilt, Name of Quilter, Postal Address.
8. The quilt should not have been exhibited prior to submission to this exhibition.
9. Quilts made by more than one person at any stage of construction should identify all of those involved.
10. Quilts are not for sale during the exhibition.
11. This is a juried exhibiition. The judging panel’s decision will be final.
12. The quilts are covered by the IPS insurance once the quilt is received by the hosting branch.
13. By entering your quilt you agree to have it photographed for publicity purposes and the catalogue of the exhibition.
14. Each quilt must have its own bag labelled with both the name of the quilt, the name of the maker and your branch.
15. Quilts will be released at the end of the exhibition period and not before that time.
16. Deadline for quilts to be received is the 31st March 2017. No late entries will be accepted due to cataloguing and photographing of quilts.
Download entry form here!
“Hands Across the Border 2017”
“Aurora”
Official Opening Tuesday 16th May 2017 in CHQ Custom House Quarter, IFSC, Custom House Quay, Dublin Northside, Dublin
Exhibition will run until the 26th May
Northern venue is Lisburn Arts Centre, June 2017
Exhibition Rules and Conditions;
All Irish Patchwork Society and Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild Members are eligible to enter
1. The quilt must consist of a minimum of two layers, although any technique may be used.
2. Size: quilts can be made to a maximum of 1 meter square.
3. The quilt has a free choice of edging treatments.
4. No glass fronted, framed, mounted quilts or quilts made from kits will be allowed.
5. The work should have been completed in the last two years.
6. The quilt must have a 10 cm (4 inch) hanging sleeve, (with sufficient fullness to accommodate the hanging rod).
7. Please ensure that your quilt is labelled on the back at the bottom edge with the following information: Name of the Quilt, Name of Quilter, Postal Address.
8. The quilt should not have been exhibited prior to submission to this exhibition.
9. Quilts made by more than one person at any stage of construction should identify all of those involved.
10. Quilts are not for sale during the exhibition.
11. This is a juried exhibiition. The judging panel’s decision will be final.
12. The quilts are covered by the IPS insurance once the quilt is received by the hosting branch.
13. By entering your quilt you agree to have it photographed for publicity purposes and the catalogue of the exhibition.
14. Each quilt must have its own bag labelled with both the name of the quilt, the name of the maker and your branch.
15. Quilts will be released at the end of the exhibition period and not before that time.
16. Deadline for quilts to be received is the 31st March 2017. No late entries will be accepted due to cataloguing and photographing of quilts.
Download entry form here!
Call for entries - Illuminate!
Call
for Entries
The Irish Patchwork
Society invites all
IPS members to submit quilts for an Irish exhibition at the OEQC Open European
Quilt Championships in Maastright October 19-22 2017.
The Theme is “Illuminate” and the size is 20 x40 inches portrait orientation.
Rules of the
exhibition:
1.
The quilt must consist of a minimum of two layers, although
any technique may be used.
2.
Size: 20 x 40 inches portrait orientation
3.
The quilt has a free choice of edging treatments.
4.
No glass fronted, framed, mounted quilts or quilts made from
kits will be allowed.
5.
The work should have been completed in the last two years.
6.
The quilt must have a 10 cm (4 inch) hanging sleeve, (with
sufficient fullness to accommodate the hanging rod).
7.
Please ensure that your quilt has a stitched fabric label on
the back at the bottom edge with the following information: Name of the Quilt, Name of Quilter, Postal
Address, Telephone number.
8.
The quilt should not have been exhibited prior to submission
to this exhibition.
9.
Quilts made by more than one person at any stage of
construction should identify all of those involved.
10.
Quilts are not for sale during the exhibition.
11.
This is a juried exhibiition. The judging panel’s decision
will be final.
12.
The quilts are covered by the IPS insurance once the quilt is
received by the society.
13.
By entering your quilt you agree to have it photographed for
publicity purposes.
14.
Each quilt must have its own bag labelled with both the name
of the quilt, the name of the maker and your branch.
15.
Quilts will be released at the end of the exhibition period and not before that time.
16.
Deadline
for quilts to be received is the 31st May 2017.
27 October 2016
26 October 2016
Knitting & Stitching Galleries
This past weekend I had the pleasure of invigilating at the Knitting & Stiching show in the RDS and loved our gallery there so much I took quite a few photos!
The traditional gallery was curated by Elizabeth Brennan and featured quilts from Frances Shanahan, Ina Stephens, Assumpta Lydon, Maureen Feary, Ann Marie Horan, Linda McCulkin and Jo Banks.
The modern gallery was curated by Ruth Bourke and featured quilts from Sharon Hughes, Tomomi McElwee, Ethelda Ellis, Erin Case, Imelda O'Grady and Aine Lecky
Our young quilters gallery was curated by Paula Rafferty and featured quilts by Isobel Maher, Cathal Crowe, Isobel Cagney, Ashling Murphy and the class of Mary Ann Brewer.
Thanks to all who contributed to the success of the show including hanging, invigilating and of course the quilt making!
The art quilts gallery was also curated by Paula Rafferty and featured quilts from our Evolution exhibition in addition to quilts by Elizabeth Brennan, Gillian Killick, Lorretta O'Brien and Lois Davies.
The bag gallery was curated by Dearbhla O'Reilly and featured bags by over 30 different makers!
The South Eastern branch volunteered to be the first to take on the branch display and treated us to a wonderful early Christmas!
It was brilliant to get the chance to see one of the Share Jane quilts designed by Paula Rafferty and we all had fun finding our blocks in there somewhere! More photos of the quilts exhibited will be added to our exhibition archive on Flickr over the course of the week.
I have to leave you with Valerie Mullaly's block of the month quilt. I found myself taking lots of photos of this one with so much detail, I could spend hours looking at it finding something new! Can you spot the owl and the pussycat? That was my favourite block in the quilt.
A wonderful show - looking forward to next years already!
The traditional gallery was curated by Elizabeth Brennan and featured quilts from Frances Shanahan, Ina Stephens, Assumpta Lydon, Maureen Feary, Ann Marie Horan, Linda McCulkin and Jo Banks.
The modern gallery was curated by Ruth Bourke and featured quilts from Sharon Hughes, Tomomi McElwee, Ethelda Ellis, Erin Case, Imelda O'Grady and Aine Lecky
Our young quilters gallery was curated by Paula Rafferty and featured quilts by Isobel Maher, Cathal Crowe, Isobel Cagney, Ashling Murphy and the class of Mary Ann Brewer.
Thanks to all who contributed to the success of the show including hanging, invigilating and of course the quilt making!
The art quilts gallery was also curated by Paula Rafferty and featured quilts from our Evolution exhibition in addition to quilts by Elizabeth Brennan, Gillian Killick, Lorretta O'Brien and Lois Davies.
The bag gallery was curated by Dearbhla O'Reilly and featured bags by over 30 different makers!
The South Eastern branch volunteered to be the first to take on the branch display and treated us to a wonderful early Christmas!
It was brilliant to get the chance to see one of the Share Jane quilts designed by Paula Rafferty and we all had fun finding our blocks in there somewhere! More photos of the quilts exhibited will be added to our exhibition archive on Flickr over the course of the week.
I have to leave you with Valerie Mullaly's block of the month quilt. I found myself taking lots of photos of this one with so much detail, I could spend hours looking at it finding something new! Can you spot the owl and the pussycat? That was my favourite block in the quilt.
A wonderful show - looking forward to next years already!
05 October 2016
Exhibitions photos added to our archive!
For those that didn't make it to Limerick this summer to see our National Exhibition the mid-West branch have added photographs to our archive here!
We exhibited just under 50 quilts on the theme of Evolution and also exhibited the EQA exhibition Distance which was a collaboration between Ireland, Latvia and Austria.
Please pop over to our archive and have a look!
Please pop over to our archive and have a look!
30 September 2016
IPS Magazine on the way!
Our latest newsletter is on the way to members in the post. Issue 136 is our Autumn edition and features a block and a camera bag pattern, news and updates from the branches as well as feature articles!
If you would like to submit an article or photographs to the next newsletter please send them to your branch editorial representative before the 20th October!
Looking forward to seeing everyone at our AGM tomorrow in the Ormond Hotel in Kilkenny!
If you would like to submit an article or photographs to the next newsletter please send them to your branch editorial representative before the 20th October!
Looking forward to seeing everyone at our AGM tomorrow in the Ormond Hotel in Kilkenny!
03 September 2016
AGM Update
Our upcoming AGM is being held in the Ormond Hotel in Kilkenny on the 1st October. We invite members to submit any motions in writing proposed and seconded by email to irishpatchwork@gmail.com or via post to our postal address:
Irish Patchwork Society
PO Box 45
Blackrock
Co. Dublin
Ireland
Motions must be received by 5pm Monday the 26th September.
Irish Patchwork Society
PO Box 45
Blackrock
Co. Dublin
Ireland
Motions must be received by 5pm Monday the 26th September.
Details of our AGM activities are as follows and the form can be downloaded separately here.
Thank you to the South Midlands Branch for hosting our AGM this year!
Welcome to September! Where did the summer go? Hope everyone had a fun filled summer and now that the back to school madness is out of the way our branch meeting schedules start up again.
Kicking off with:
North Eastern Branch on the 3rd September
Mid-Western Branch on the 9th September
Southern, Western and South Eastern on the 10th Sept
South Midlands on the 15th Sept
South Western on the 23rd Sept
Eastern on the 24th Sept
All are welcome!
For returning members the membership form can be downloaded here! Please print and bring to your branch meeting (forms will be available on the night but the membership secretary will have an easier job if you have it filled out in advance!)
North Eastern Branch on the 3rd September
Mid-Western Branch on the 9th September
Southern, Western and South Eastern on the 10th Sept
South Midlands on the 15th Sept
South Western on the 23rd Sept
Eastern on the 24th Sept
All are welcome!
For returning members the membership form can be downloaded here! Please print and bring to your branch meeting (forms will be available on the night but the membership secretary will have an easier job if you have it filled out in advance!)
02 August 2016
25 July 2016
Exhibition News!
Our National Exhibition just closed last Friday! We had 45 quilts on display from branches all across the country on the theme of Evolution. Congratulations to Lena Pugachova from the Eastern Branch whose quilt, "Fallen by the Wayside", was voted Viewers choice!
Second in the voting was Imelda O'Grady from the Mid-West Branch with "My Theory of Evolution" and third also from the Mid West Branch was Cecilia O'Doherty, "A Brief History".
To see photographs of the quilts exhibited please visit the Mid West Branch Archive on Flickr here. Thank you very much to our Mid-West Branch for all the work involved in hosting the exhibition and the opening night. For photographs of the opening night please visit the Mid-West Branch blog page or group page on Facebook.
Erin, from the Southern Branch, has put together a slide show of the Evolution Exhibit in addition to the Distance EQA exhibit that was shown at the same time in the Limerick School of Art and Design. Click here to visit the Southern Branch Blog page to see the slide shows.
Thank you to Paula Rafferty and Loretta O'Brien for sharing the Distance exhibit with us. A final thank you to all those who participated and made quilts for the exhibition. It was a wonderful and varied exhibit. Congratulations to all!
To see photographs of the quilts exhibited please visit the Mid West Branch Archive on Flickr here. Thank you very much to our Mid-West Branch for all the work involved in hosting the exhibition and the opening night. For photographs of the opening night please visit the Mid-West Branch blog page or group page on Facebook.
Thank you to Paula Rafferty and Loretta O'Brien for sharing the Distance exhibit with us. A final thank you to all those who participated and made quilts for the exhibition. It was a wonderful and varied exhibit. Congratulations to all!
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