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IPS Exhibitions at Knitting & Stitching Show 2017

Reminder to our members that if you have a quilt or bag to exhibit at Knitting & Stitching Show in November to please email ipsknitandstitch@gmail.com with two photos - an overall and a detail and state the category and size. Quilt or bag should not have been exhibited before at Knitting & Stitching Show.

There are a number of categories to show a varied selection of our work, and selected items will go on display in the RDS from 9th November.

These are the categories and the organiser/curator:

Traditional - Elizabeth Brennan

Modern/Contemporary - Claire Lynch

Art - Paula Rafferty

Young Quilters - Paula Rafferty

Bags -  Dearbhla O’Reilly and Eilish Masterson

Please email ipsknitandstitch@gmail.com with photographs of your quilt or bag as soon as possible.

The organiser of each section will make arrangements to receive delivery of selected items, options include branch meetings and our AGM on 7th October.

Eastern Branch exhibit Scrap Happy Opening tonight

7pm AXIS ART CENTRE, BALLYMUN.
All most welcome, our exhibition of 32 creative quilts made from scraps.
Hope to see you there!

Reminder : Visit Limerick School of Art and Design for exhibitions by Paula Rafferty

Reminder if you want to see all the share Jane quilts together don't miss out on Paula's exhibition on until this Friday!

Aurora Exhibition in Lisburn, Northern Ireland.

Our joint exhibition with the Northern Irish Patchwork Guild - Hands Across the Border, Aurora is now in the Island Arts Centre, Lisburn. The exhibition of 63 quilts hangs until the end of June. For opening times and details, see Aurora Exhibition.

Layered Stories Exhibition Details!

Call for Baby Cot Quilts

The Limerick Quilt Centre have their annual exhibition, River of Dreams in Limerick in the School of Art and Design, Clare Street from the 23rd to the 30th of June. This year baby cot quilts are requested for donation to The Heart Children of Ireland. Quilts be displayed during the exhibition and then donated afterwards.

For anybody interested in making a baby cot quilt, the size is 36"x42" and the hanging sleeve must be placed on the 36" size. For more details see the River of Dreams Facebook page.

Exhibition Opening - 16th May at 7pm

All members of are invited to the official opening by Leo Enright of 

Hands Across the Border 2017

Aurora

Tuesday 16th May at 7pm

CHQ, Custom House Quarter, Dublin 1

Hands Across the Border is a joint exhibition from members of the Northern Ireland PAtchwork Guild and the Irish Patchwork Society.

What's on over the coming months!

Event Name	Dates	Venue
"Fun" Modern Quilters Ireland 2nd Exhibition	2nd May -23rd June	St. Patrick's Hospital, Dublin
The Spike Quilters	2nd - 30th May	Thurles Source Library
Tracey Watson & Joke Buursma	20th May - 23rd June	Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Hands Across the Border "Aurora"	15th - 23rd May	Custom House Quarter (CHQ), Dublin
Western Branch Exhibition "The West"	22nd - 29th May	St. Nicholas Church, Galway
3rd Irish Quilters Showcase "North, South, East and West"	May	Hunt Museum, Limerick
River of Dreams	23rd -30th June	Limerick School of Art & Design
Festival of Quilts	10th - 13th August	NEC, Birmingham
Open European Quilt Championships	19th  - 22nd October	Maastricht, The Netherlands
Knitting & Stitching	9th - 12th November	RDS, Dublin
An Grianan	2nd - 4th March	Temonfeckin, Co. Louth

Upcoming Events

“Community.” 

Southern Branch exhibition will be running at the Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh from the 2nd of March to the 26th of March.  The opening reception will happen on the 2nd of March with Cork County Mayor, Seamus McGrath in attendance. 

"Fun"

Modern Quilters Ireland second exhibition at St.Patricks Hospital, Dublin May 2nd to June 23rd.

Courthouse Gallery in Ennistymon, Co. Clare.

An exhibition that will be held this summer by Tracy Watson and Joke Buursma

12th May and 23rd June.  Gallery website is theCourthouseGallery.com for details of opening times

Hands across the Border “ Aurora” 

Official Opening Tuesday 16th May 2017 in CHQ Custom House Quarter, IFSC, Custom House Quay, Dublin Northside, Dublin.  Exhibition will run until the 26 th May.  Northern venue is Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, June 2017 

The Spike Quilters

Exhibition in Thurles Source Library centre from Tuesday May 2nd toTue May 30th. Library hours. (9.30 to5 pm week days and10 to 5pm Sat. Closes 1pm to 2pm for Lunch.  

Third Irish Quilters’ Showcase Exhibition  

May-June 2017   The Mitchel Hall, Spike Island 

The Kniting and Stitching show 2017  

Simmonscourt, RDS, Dublin 9-12th November 

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everybody. 

The Society has a very busy year ahead.  We thought it would be helpful to pull the submission dates for our themed exhibitions together so you have them for you diaires!  (Entry forms can be downloaded from the right sidebar on this page.)

• Hands Across the Border - theme is Aurora due 31st March, maximum 1m square
• EQA annual challenge for exhibition at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham - theme is Inspired by New York Beauty, also due end of march, 30th March, 25cm x 35cm in Landscape format
• EQA Diversity in Europe - no theme but showcasing the best example of quilt making, due 30th April, size is minimum 1m x 1m to a maximum of 2.5m x 2.5m
• Open European Quilt Championships - theme is Illuminate due 31st May. 20" x 40" portrait format
• Knitting & Stitching Show - open call to IPS members to submit work for exhibition on the following themes: Traditional, Modern, Young Quilters (aged 18 or less), Art and we are exhibiting bags again this year.  Hand in at the September meetings.

Our AGM will be held in Cork this year, Saturday 7th October and the Southern Branch already has an update on their website here, for more details on the hotel: the Kingsley, Victoria Cross, Cork.