October is traditionally our open meeting, and in order to get the word out, we’d love it if you could post our information poster in billboards in your community!
Thank you for helping to get the word out!
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September Meeting Recap
Apologies for the lateness of the post, I needed to leave the meeting early to catch a ferry for a holiday, and our internet in France was very slow.
On September 12, we met at the Sacred Heart Church on Western Road for the first meeting of the year.
Membership dues for the year were due at this meeting, €40 which goes to the executive board. Due to insurance, you can only attend 2 meetings prior to paying for your membership. After those two meetings, you won’t be covered by insurance anymore!
We’ve also increased our door fees to €4 for members, and €8 for non-members. This increase in fees is a result of a motion passed by members at our AGM in April.
Our meeting started out with announcements from our chair, Jane.
We showed off the eight blocks of the Block of the Month that have been created so far, in two different colorways.
Then, Erin followed with a recap of the Block of the Month project we’ve been doing since February. Then, using the projector, showed a step by step tutorial of this month’s block, the Spools block!
In future meetings we’ll be doing a step by step visual tutorial for the remaining blocks!
Maeve from Limerick Quilt Centre did a demonstration.
Photo by Susan Garde
Christmas Placemats!
Photo by Susan Garde
Sadly, I had to leave before the Show and Tell portion of the meeting. Please, if you have photos I can use in a slideshow, please send them to our email address, corkips@gmail.com.
Our next meeting is scheduled for October 10 and will be our open meeting!
Letter from the Chair
Letter from the chair.
September is here already! Time to get out all those projects we put away in June, thinking it was ages before we had to think about them again. I am thinking in particular of a Name Tag–our summer challenge. Erin has given us lots of support on the internet all summer, so we have no excuse. We have a new committee member, Susan Garde – welcome!- she has already proved very useful as our ‘local knowledge’ Colette has taken on the roll of membership secretary.
Our next meeting will be this Saturday 12th September at 10am.
It will be a great chance to catch up, show off all the summer work and get inspired for the winter.
Our shop will be Limerick Quilt Centre, and Maeve will be giving us a demo.
Please show your summer challenge with pride! The great prize will be a lucky dip, so everyone has a chance of winning.
The block of the month will be demonstrated by Erin, and we will do a recap of the blocks so far.
We hope to have a great Show & Tell, please leave all your works of art at the front desk.
It is subscription time again, the annual subscription which goes straight to the executive is €40 .
Eilis (has stepped in again for us) will have a separate table for subscriptions. PLEASE remember to bring this as it helps so much with administration.
It was agreed at our AGM in April that our door price would be increased to €4 and €8 for visitors. Still excellent value for a great morning of inspiration.
Tea and coffee will be provided, but again cakes etc depend on your generosity, and you have never let us down yet!
There will be our usual raffle.
Phew! Just in case you have given up the will to live, here it is in a nutshell:
Saturday 12th September 10am
Subscription € 40
Show & Tell
Summer challenge – name tag
Raffle
Limerick quilt Centre will be our shop
Maeve will give a talk/ demo
Entrance fee € 4 , visitors € 8 .
Cakes required
Block of the month demo,& recap.
We are really looking forward to seeing you there
Jane
Chair Southern Branch IPS
June Meeting Recap
Well, we’ve had our last meeting for the summer! I hope everyone had an amazing time at the meeting. Wasn’t Irene MacWilliam’s talk such an inspiration?
We started the meeting announcing the Summer Challenge: Nametags! We’d love to be welcoming to new members and to be able to know everyone’s names!
Be sure to check out our Pinterest page for inspiration for your nametag. Click on the photo to take you to the board.
We also passed out a special “Southern Branch of the Irish Patchwork Society” tag to include on your nametag. If you weren’t able to get to the meeting and would like to participate, please send an email to corkips AT gmail DOT com. From there, Erin will give you an address to send a self addressed stamped envelope so you can be sent a tag.
The Block of the Month was announced as well, the X-Plus Block!
We’ll be continuing this project over the summer, posting the instructions here on the blog. Be on the lookout in the beginning of July and August.
Irene MacWilliam also gave a retrospective on her work, and brought along samples to share. Here’s a slideshow of some of the works she brought along to show:
Our Show and Tell was also inspiring! Just look at all these projects!
Our next meeting will be September 12th, but keep watching the blog. We’ve got a lot of content planned to give you your patchwork fix! Have a great Summer!
May 9th Social Meeting
Well, it was our second to last meeting before the summer break, and we chose to use this meeting more as a social meeting, with an extended show and tell! And what a show and Tell it was!
Some links for projects/tools/techniques discussed during Show and Tell:
One Hour Basket
Falling Charms
Missouri Star Quilt Company
Jaybird Quilts
Sidekick Ruler
Please comment below if there’s a link that was missed!
Anne Marie Hobbs from the Kilbora Quilt Shop was our shop and speaker. She showed some amazing examples of her work! Find her on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
What an amazing meeting! I hope you enjoyed it as much as everyone else did!
Our next meeting is June 13, 2015– the last meeting before the summer break. We’ll be announcing our summer challenge, and it will be our Irene MacWilliam weekend!
April Meeting Recap
Today was our April meeting, as well as our AGM. What a meeting!
Our AGM started with our Chair’s report, where Jane recapped the past year, and thanked the members that gave her assistance through the year.
Next, Tracy read the minutes of the previous AGM, and then Eilis gave her treasurer’s report.
At this meeting, it was announced that Eilis would step down as treasurer and Olivia would step down as Branch representative. Volunteers were requested to join the committee this year, as next year 4 members of the committee would be stepping down. See Jane or any other members of the committee if you’re interested in volunteering!
Motions that passed included increasing the fee at the door in order for us to cover room rental fees and a motion to present to the Executive AGM focusing on education for branches.
Once all the business was completed, we had our Show and Tell! How about these quilts!
Next, Sandra Jansen gave a talk on her quilting history and improvisational piecing. Below is a slideshow of her work she showed the group!
Due to the length of the meeting, the Block of the Month instruction was delayed until next month, where we’ll be having a social meeting. Be sure to work on your nearly finished quilts to bring to the Show and Tell. We’re hoping it will be the biggest Show and Tell of the year!
What a turnout at today’s meeting!
What a fantastic turnout we had at today’s meeting.
We started out with announcements and then moved on to Show and Tell. And the show and tell? How inspiring are these quilts?
Well done ladies! Fantastic work!
We then moved on to the Block of the Month project, debuting our Churn Dash block.
Due to the fact that our speaker had the flu, several of our members stepped up and provided demonstrations.
There was a tissue packet demo:
And a Japanese Rice Bag demonstration.
You can find the handout for the rice bag demo here.
Our next meeting is April 11th. It will be our AGM and we’ll have Sandra Jansen speaking about Improvisational Piecing. Start working on your show and tell now!
