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Western Branch |
Our meetings take place in Galway city and currently our branch members hail from Galway, Clare, Roscommon, Mayo, Westmeath, Sligo, Sweden and the USA The venue for our meetings is the Galway Bridge Centre St Mary's Road Galway H91 C2C3 from 10am - 12.30 Our meetings feature guest speakers, a show and tell of members' recent work and visiting shops with patchwork and quilting supplies.....and a welcoming cuppa on arrival. Visitors and new members are always welcome. If you would like more information about our meeting please contact our chairperson at: Email: chairipswest2025@gmail.com |
We hope you are enjoying the recent fine weather. The Western Branch of the IPS welcome you to join us for our May meeting which will take place on: Saturday May 9th from 10am - 12.30pm in the Galway Bridge Centre. St Mary's Road, H91 C2C3. We will begin the meeting with our Branch AGM at 10.30 which is open to branch members only. Once the AGM is over everyone is welcome to enjoy our Show and Tell and the talk by this month's speaker Nikki Foley of The Sewing Shed In the afternoon Nikki will deliver a workshop "Star Struck" There is still some availability on this workshop if any IPS members from other branches wish to do it. Please contact the Branch Chairperson at chairipswest2025@gmail.com if you would like to enrol for the workshop. Western Branch members pleas remember to return any library books taken out over the last year. If you haven’t yet used the fantastic resource of our library, have a look at the books this Saturday. Some of the pieces from our April Show and Tell. Eileen Treacy Disappearing Pinwheel Teresa Donnellan Crazy Patchwork
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The Western Branch are delighted to be hosting the 2026 IPS National AGM on June 20th and 21st in the Connacht Hotel Galway. We look forward to giving a warm welcome to members from around the country.
This technique was devised by Paula Doyle and is a great way to use up those scraps and create miniature masterpieces. The scraps are sewn together in order and then a 1.5" waxed paper template is used to cut them to the desired size.
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Mary B Kenny Nine Patch
Our April Workshop was Mini Mosaics with Lynn Naughton 
