Thursday, August 18, 2011

Festival of Quilts

At the Festival of Quilts 2011, the Irish Patchwork Society had a stand to celebrate their 30th Anniversary. Quilts were selected from their recent Branching out exhibition. Two Genesis quilts were selected "Spring Growth" by Claire Lynch and "Genesis: First Growth" - the 1st Genesis group quilt.



Paula Rafferty was also one of the designers representing Ireland in this years Fashion Sans Frontier event at FoQ




Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Genesis Meeting 31st July 2011

Genesis had a group meeting on 31st July 2011.
Swap Bag 2 projects were supposed to be finished on this date, however only Claire and Tracy had finished theirs! Swap Bag 2's contents were organised by Tracy, it consisted of blue and white organza.

Tracy made a book cover using the fabrics:

Claire made 4 postcards (2 fabric and 2 paper based) and a book cover for Meg (not pictured here).

Plans were made for a field trip in September to the "Burren". This is get photographs and inspiration for our next group project.

Ann, Meg and Paula are to have Swap Bag 2 items finished for the 4th September. Paula will have Swap Bag 3 ready for this date.