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!)

Invitiation to submit for exhibition at this years Knitting & Stitching Show

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!

Join us for the National Exhibition 2016 - Evolution

An Grianan 2016

An Grianan 2016 will be taking place from March 4th to 6th.
 There are 6 workshops available:

• Exploring Velvet with Angie Hughes
• Mastering your Sewing Machine with Ruth Jarman
• Circling the Square with Sandra Montgomery
• Storm at Sea with Anne Marie Horan
• Embellishing Workshop (Added Value) with Valerie Mullally
• Quirky Squares with Elizabeth Brennan

Fee is €225, with a deposit of €55 required by January 5th 2016.


An Grianan Challenge:
The An Grianan Challenge is "Celebrating Stitch" - make a 1 metre length of bunting which represents your hobby. The pennant can be any shape you like but no more than 8.5" in length or 5.5" in width or diameter.

 The bunting will be redistributed to the branches for use within the branch to bring attention to exhibitions or meetings.