Located in County Cork
Welcome to 2019! I hope you managed a break over the busy Christmas season and made headway on a new project or a UFO. I woke each morning determined to sew… but… um… I’ve three more days before I go back to work!
We meet 12 January, 10:00 to 12:30 (ish) at Sacred Heart Church
Speaker: Sinead from Apple Tree Crafts
Shop: Apple Tree Crafts
Please bring your show and tell!
We were delighted that both Santa and Mrs Claus could join us for the festive fun at the December meeting.
Thanks to the many members who brought their Christmas Postcard (congrats to Marie O Leary on winning the hamper), treats to share and a lovely selection of pieces for Show & Tell. Thanks to our quiz master Ann Prendergast for stretching our brains with very punny quilting questions. Well done to Aine’s winning team with 35/36 correct answers!
There was a super response to the Christmas Postcard challenge – as you can see!
Ailbhe O Callaghan gave an informative and inspiring overview of making quilts from shirts.
Show and Tell:
included: Lesley Rowan’s – completed Allietare Mystery Quilt by Bonnie Hunter
Fionnuala Creed’s button Christmas tree and other Christmas items
Marie Sprott’s gift of a banner, which turned out to have been made by Anne Maloney – which is why you should always label your work!
Mary O’Regan’s scarecrow (from a pattern bought on the Missouri trip) and calming quilt from an Aldi fat-quarter set.
Mary O’Connor’s “when they know you are a quilter at work….”
Sheila Devereux’s framed piece
Sheila Keane’s Houses 100 inches by 100 inches, with patched back
Sandra Jansen – charity quilt for cancer care raffle at UCC
group baby quilt (2 years in the making!), quilt as you go and then stitched by machine at the front, and by hand at the back.
Building Bridges – a piece inspired by a book for a Cork Textile Network exhibition
Tracy Wardle showed her structural table toppers for a charity (Cork Simon) class she’ll be teaching. Contact a member of the committee with a donation and she’ll send you an email copy of the instructions.
Tina Sullivan Hawkes – 3-D stuffed christmas trees
14 members stayed for the afternoon workshop and created their own Santas
With inspiration from Mid-western branch, this year’s Christmas Challenge is to make a postcard.
Packs with three fabrics and pelmet vilene were distributed at the November meeting – the challenge is to make a postcard using at least some of each of the three fabrics, plus any additional fabric you would like to include.
The Summer 2018 newsletter includes a postcard tutorial from Miriam Gogarty – it can be found here.
Please bring your finished postcard to the December meeting. All entries will go into a draw for a mini-hamper, then pop them in the post!
We meet in November 2018 on the third Saturday: 17 November instead of our normal second Saturday.
Speaker: Southern Branch Member: Ailbhe O Callaghan: “Simple Blocks from Shirts”
Shop: Lismore Quilts
Sewing Machine Service offered by John O Donnell (please let us know if you would like to have your machine serviced – €50 / €55 for computerised machines)
Please feel free to bring an item for show & tell, and as always, something sweet or savoury to share is very welcome.
Hi all, sorry about September recap failure! Technology is wonderful when we all know how to use it. It was a great meeting for those that missed it! Thanks again to everyone who who helped out with membership, Door and Raffle.
October 13th, Open Meeting.
We had a great turnout for our Open meeting and we had Patchwork Plus as our shop and Moya had a marvelous selection of Christmas fabrics, YES, I said it! Christmas!, have to start now for presents to be finished.!
We had Tina Sullivan Hawkes doing a Demonstration on Christmas paper pieced Brooch, Panels and a three layers stand alone Christmas tree when stuffed!
We also had Rebecca Farr and Rob Hyde showing us CPR. It was a refresher for some or if you were like me, a great Lesson in what to do in an emergency.
We then had the Pin Pals give a Show and Tell of our Secret Round Robin which we started last September (2017) and just had finished in late August 2018!
After that our Branch Show and Tell, Fantastic as always Ladies.
