Mid-Western Branch

Looking forward to seeing everyone at our next branch meeting on Saturday 18th February 10am at Clarina Community Centre.  Shop is Patchwork Plus and Moya will be giving a workshop on Wonky Stars.  Email midwestpatchwork@gmail.com for more information.

We had the great pleasure of hosting Lena Pugacheva from the Eastern branch for our October meeting last Friday evening.  Lena brought a beautiful selection of her gorgeous quilts and we were treated to an epic show and tell.  A selection of photos are here and some show and tell from the Mid West branch members as well.  See you next month on the 11th November.

Lena Pugacheva

Members show and tell:

Imelda O'Grady

Mairead Hasty

Suzanne Pass

We had a lovley first meeting in our new space in the Redemptorists Hall last Friday.  Thanks to all who attended and to Gerardine and the team at Giddygoats Craft for bringing the shop to our meeting.  Some photos in case you missed the meeting.

Alice and Mairead welcoming members back to meetings.

Mary Murphy

Tracy Watson

Imelda O'Grady

Gillian Sheehan

Claire Lynch

Ruth Bourke

We back to meetings in September and look forward to seeing you all on September 9th in our new venue with our meeting starting at the earlier time of 7pm. 

We are meeting in The Redemptorists Hall which is the blue door on the left side of the Redemptorist church, South Circular Road Limerick. The church grounds has a large car park.

If you are coming from the Motorway take the exit onto the dock road towards the city and turn right following the signs for Mary Immaculate college.  Take a left onto South Circular road and pass out the Mary I and you will see the Redemptorist (locally called the Father's) church on the left.

If you are coming from town drive up O'Connell Avenue and turn right just before the Model School and the Church car park will be right ahead of you.

If anyone has any trouble finding us please call 086-8211105 for directions.

See you on the 9th at 7pm!

Our program of events is over until after the summer and we finished on a high note with our June Summer party and workshop with Nikki Foley from the Sewing Shed. 

In case you missed our meeting here is some of our show and tell :

Phil Aylward

Imelda O'Grady

Anne Rowlands

Louise Mullane

Mary Murphy

We look forward to seeing everyone at our next meeting in September. 

Thanks to all who participated in our branch year.  Happy summer sewing everyone!

Quilt by Alice Williams

Just a quick post to catch you up on what we've been doing.  Our meetings have been on Zoom and in November we had a blended meeting with an in person and online offering.  It was a great sucess and thank you to Sandra Janssen of the Southern Branch for joining us as guest speaker.

Quilt by Claire Lynch

We also ran a workshop with Paula Raffety on a Japanese technique to make a Cathedral Windows style quilt.  Thank you Paula for a great day sewing togehter again.

Louise Mullane prepared a fun quiz for our Christmas partyand Imelda O'Grady won the top prize of a Fat Quarter Bundle.  Congratulations Imelda.

Quilt by Imelda O'Grady

In January we had Gaye Grant from the Fennel Shed as our guest speaker and were treated to a demonstration of the Disappearing 9 patch block on point.  Thank you Gaye for a great meeting.

This month we are back in person at Kilmurray Arts & Heritage Centre on 11th February at 7:30 pm.  Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Thank you to all who attended our September meeting online on Zoom.  In case you missed it here are some of the highlights.  See you all next month.

Thanks to all who contributed to our Wall Hanging Challenge and Show and Tell for our April meeting (see presentation below). 

Thanks also to Stephanie from Green Acres Quilts for a fabulous demonstration of the Exploding Pineapple block.

Next month the challenge is Baby Quilts.  See you online again with Zoom on 14th May.

Thanks a million to all who attended our March Zoom meeting and to Lynn from Seams So Simple for showing us what's new in the shop and sharing a fun, quick make with us : fabric baskets to brighten up your home and for use as quick gifts.

Members show and tell can be seen in the following presentation and our Block of the Month and meeting notes can be found here: BOM-7.pdf

Thank you to all who attend our meeting this month with guest speaker Pat Archibald.  It was brilliant to see so many online from all the branches and we hope you enjoyed our meeting.  For those that missed it here is some of the branch show and tell.

See you online at our next meeting on the 12th March!

Ruth on behalf of Midwest Branch Committee 2021