EQA Movement Exhibition

EQA "Movement" Exhibition will be taking place in Christ Church, United Presbyterian & Methodist (Central Buildings), 51 O'Connell Street, Limerick.

1-14th June 2015

Open daily from 10am to 5.30pm (Closed Sundays)

 

Western Branch Exhibition "Summer Colours"

The IPS Western Branch will be holding a branch exhibition "Summer Colours" from Friday 5th - Thursday 11th of June in the foyer of the Orbsen Building, NUIG, Galway.

The venue is open daily from 9am to 6pm. Admission free

Hands Across the Border Exhibition

Hands Across the Border 2015 - Reflections
 
A joint exhibition between the
Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild & Irish Patchwork Society
City Hall Belfast

Official opening at 12 noon - Tuesday 5th May. Opening by Valerie Wilson (Textile Curator at Cultra Folk and Transport Museum). 
The exhibition in City Hall runs from the 5th May to 28th May.

The exhibition will be in 2 parts: 
Part I from 5th May to 15th May. Part I will be half the NIPG quilts and those from IPS Western and Eastern Branches.

Part II from 16th May to 28th May. Part II  will be the other half of the NIPG Quilts and all the other IPS branches.
 

All the quilts will be on exhibition in the Botanic Gardens in Dublin during the month of July.

Modern Quilters Ireland 1st Exhibition

Modern Quilters Ireland will be holding their 1st ever exhibition from May 25th - June 26th at St. Patrick's Hospital, Dublin.

The theme of the exhibition is "Happiness".
 
The official launch of the exhibition is on the 4th June at 4pm to coincide with National Quilting Week.

The venue, St Patrick's Hospital, is a 5 minute walk from Heuston Station. It is situated on Steeven’s Lane, between Heuston Station and St. James’s Hospital, with bus and Luas services all within a 5-10 minute walk. There is limited paid parking also available for visitors travelling by car.

OEQC 2015 Entry Deadline

For any IPS members who are interested in entering a quilt for the Open European Quilt Championships (OEQC) 2015, please note that the competition has a very early entry date of 1st May.  

 A completed and signed entry form, along with two photographs of your work, must be submitted by May 1st.

The quilt exhibition takes place from 29th October - 1st November 2015 in MECC Maastricht, Forum 100, 6229 GV Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Click here for the entry form

The theme for OEQC 2015 is: ‘The People’.

If you let your mind wander, you can think of people who belong together, or want to belong together, a crowd, a tribal dancing of happiness because they are celebrating a wedding, a nation, residents of a state, a nation led by Moses to the promised land, a group. Think of supporters of a football club, a volleyball team, a group of bikers disappearing in the distance during sunset or a battalion of soldiers, practicing on the moor with a howitzer.
Look into nature and think of swarming bees looking for a suitable place to establish itself as an independent nation separated from their people, or an anthill in a dark deciduous forest where you almost stepped on during a hiking trip. A pack of wolves who jointly hunt a bison young that they are trying to separate from the group. A herd of elephants that sisterly trudges through the savannah with their babies between them for protection against the mob hyenas who follow them around. Or young wolves playing, whose parents gnaw on some bones. A herd of cows in the meadow being corralled by the farmer because it is milking time.
If you free your mind there are many possibilities to interpret ‘the people’.