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.

Upcoming Events!

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 June	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

February Recap

Our guest speaker for February was Ailbhe O'Callaghan from the Southern Branch and I took so many photos I thought it easier to make a slideshow to share them!  More of our branch show and tell will be posted on our Facebook page!

Thank you to Ailbhe for sharing her gorgeous quilts with us!


This Friday's meeting our guest speaker will be Nikki Foley who is talking to us about quilt judging.  See you then!  Doors open at 7.30pm.
-Ruth

Upcoming exhibitions for your diary!

“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 

December Meeting

As always, our December meeting was our Christmas party. A great chance to catch up with friends, have a chat and eat plenty.

We had a sewing-themed Christmas quiz devised by Grania Preston which caused plenty of head-scratching on the night.

Our challenge was to make a "One Hour Basket" by Kelby Sews. A free pattern and tutorial to make the basket is available at

https://www.craftsy.com/sewing/patterns/1-hour-basket-tutorial/236408

The One Hour Basket challenge was won by Imelda O'Grady.




Our shop on the night was Fabric Matters. Thanks to Wendy for travelling down to Limerick with her shop.


There was lots of Show and Tell on the night.


Here's 1 of two quilt tops that Suzanne Pass whipped up using fabrics that a friend had given her.

Here's  a lovely child's train quilt that Deirdre Treacy has made.

Frances Shanahan made this lovely baby quilt and matching One Hour basket .

Deirdre Treacy also showed this fabulous log cabin quilt in a straight setting. Lovely use of light and dark fabrics here which really shows of the log cabin pattern.

Here's another amazing quilt by Imelda O'Grady.

Here's a quilt made by Claire Lynch

January Meeting

Happy New Year!  Our January meeting is this Friday 13th and is an open meeting so bring a guest!  We will have Patchwork Plus as our shop, demos, pay it forward box and a talk by Ruth Bourke on Quilty makes that have been trending online.  Doors open at 7:30pm, for a meeting start at 8:00pm. 

For you diaries the Society has a busy year ahead.  Submission dates for our themed exhibitions are:

• 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 meeting Friday 8th.

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.