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!

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 31^st May 2017. 

Download entry form here

Quilt Exhibition on this weekend!

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!

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!