6th February Meeting

Our 1st meeting of the year started off with a bang. We came up with loads of ideas to work on for the rest of the year.

Paula showed her hand-pieced quilt all made with Kaffe Fassett fabrics which is she now hand-quilting:

1st Project:
Swap Bag 1 - Claire supplied the contents of our 1st Swap Bag. Genesis members are to have something made from this bag at the next meeting. Item can be as small or large as you like.

2nd Project:
Branching Out Group Quilt. Quilted pieces will have to be ready for the 6th March meeting, at which we'll add borders and bind the piece for exhibition.

3rd Project:
Branching Out National Exhibition. All Genesis members are working on ideas or projects for the Local and National "Branching Out" Exhibition. Hopefully, we will all have our pieces ready for the April exhibition!

4th Project:
Branching Out Fabric Postcards. All Genesis members to make 2 postcards for this exhibit.

Tracy with her work in progress - New York Beauty Quilt:

Hands Across the Border Exhibition - Armagh County Museum

Every two years, the Irish Patchwork Society holds a joint exhibition with the Northern Ireland Quilters Guild i.e. the Hands Across the Border Exhibition. This year the theme of the exhibit was "Dreamcatcher".

The exhibition will be running from January 24th till Mid-April in the Armagh County Museum. In September, the exhibit will be on display in the Phoenix Park Visitors Centre, Dublin.

Three Genesis members entered quilts:

"Soul-Catcher" by Paula Rafferty

Tracy's quilt is on the top left:

"Quilt Visions" by Claire Lynch - quilt at top of picture.

Patchwork Promises International Quilting Round Robin

Paula Rafferty is part of Team Ireland in an International Quilting Round Robin. For further details see http://patchwork-promises.blogspot.com

Tracey's Blue EQA Quilt on cover of Autumn Issue of the IPS newsletter

Tracey's blue EQA quilt was the cover photo for the Autumn Issue of the Irish Patchwork Society Newsletter.

Gloria Loughman

Paula at work at a recent "Playing on the Surface" Gloria Loughman workshop that was held down in Tralee.

Irish Patchwork Society National Exhibition 2010

The Irish Patchwork Society's National Exhibition is on at the moment in the Cork Institute of Technology. The opening was on yesterday 4th of September. American quilter Laura Wasilowski officially opened the exhibit and gave a talk.

Paula entered her quilt "Round and Round Again".


Claire entered her quilt "Graffiti Graz".

EQA Colour Connections Exhibition at the Festival of Quilts

The EQA Exhibition at the Festival of Quilts this year had nine coloured 12inch squares from different EU countries. Ireland got the colour blue this year.
The photo shows the Irish entry - three of the squares were made by Genesis members. The top left square is by Tracey Watson, the middle row left square is by Claire Lynch and the bottom row middle square is by Paula Rafferty.