There was a super response to the Christmas Postcard challenge – as you can see!
November Meeting Recap
Ailbhe O Callaghan gave an informative and inspiring overview of making quilts from shirts.
Gill Turley Workshop Quilt
back of quilt
for JJ
Hexes
Lanterns?
Show and Tell:
Scarecrow
Christmas Tree
Christmas Wreath
Lesley’s completed Allietare Mystery Quilt by Bonnie Hunter
A legacy for Marie, made by Anne!
a calming quilt for a friend
once they know you are a quilter….
Framed art from Sheila
100 inch square!
back of the houses
“I just threw this together!”
Group Baby Quilt
Tales of Bridges from Sandra
Table toppers by Tracy
3-D trees with Tina
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
Postcard Christmas Challenge
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!
November Meeting Preview
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.
October recap
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.
September Meeting Preview
Please note that the September 2018 Meeting is one week later than usual, on 15 September 10 am to 1pm. This meeting will be followed by a 1/2 day workshop with Heidi Wischniewski.
Annual membership of the IPS is now €50, please bring your sub and a completed membership form to this meeting (or October if you know you can’t make this month). Forms can be found here.
We are delighted to have Mary Palmer as our speaker, hot on the heels of her latest win at the Festival of Quilts.
Limerick Quilt Centre will be joining us.
Entries to the Summer Challenge – theme: Wild Atlantic Way – will be entered into a draw to win a sewing machine service at the October Meeting with John O Donnell of Singer Sewing Centre. Sign up in September if you’d like your machine serviced at the October Meeting.
Don’t forget your show and tell, we can’t wait to see what you’ve created in the summer! As always, something to share is very welcome.
Birmingham 2018
Well, what a wonderful win and Congratulations to Mary Palmer in Birmingham in the Modern Quilt Category.
There was a strong contingent of Southern Branch Members on the plane to Birmingham Saturday morning and all delighted to see this fantastic Quilt in the winners circle!
August Exhibition
Hi all, Hope ye can make this Exhibition. A nice day out!
June 9th recap
Our meeting this month was smaller than usual as who could blame anyone for not wanting to be indoors with the fantastic weather.
Firstly, Congratulations to Sheila Devereux as her Quilt has been picked to represent Ireland at the Festival of Quilts in Bermingham! Well done!
Our shop was Moya with Patchwork Plus and our guest speaker was Artist Mary Murphy from Carrigaline, a lady who can turn her hand to anything! She gave a fantastic presentation about her beginnings and her work to date. We are hoping to have her do a workshop in the future as so many were interested. Watch this space!
Look her up on: http://www.marymurphy.weebly.com
We also had Ruth Burke our Executive chair giving a Demonstration on navigating the website and utilizing the information it provides for us as members.
We presented our outgoing representative, Joanna Harrington with a standard Rose. She has been a fantastic representative and Committee member, always ready to help out with anything that should arise with a cool, calm and collected head! And ❤.
Heidi Wischniewski’s workshop for September was filled on the day with a waiting list. I’m pretty sure we might be able to organize another one if Heidi can accommodate us!
Our Summer Challenge is “Wild Atlantic Way” . No restrictions, any size, color,shape!
Our next meeting will be Saturday 15th.
The Limerick Quilt Centre will be our shop and Mary Palmer will be our guest speaker.
Also, those doing the workshop, don’t forget to be gathering your bits and pieces and trimmings for the workshop!
Enjoy your Summer,
Hope to see you in September, Assumpta
Our Next Meeting in September will be the as the church needs the hall on the 15th for a Novena.
May 12th recap
We were delighted to have about 18 members of the South Midlands Branch come visit us this month. It was Fantastic to see so many come and a few of the Ladies stayed for Nicki Foley’s workshop after the meeting while the rest went into town shopping. I hope that they enjoyed their day out!
The Sewing Shed with Nicki Foley was our Shop on the day with a fabulous selection as usual.
Our Speaker was Ann O’Rafferty and she was fantastic! Her Appliqué work is second to none and we were all inspired by her work and amount of Quilts she produced on the day.
They treated us with a Fantastic Show and Tell, introduced by Eileen Shortis their Chair. We then had our own and all fantastic as usual.
Southern Branch of the Irish Patchwork Society 