Mid-Western Branch

The September meeting was our 1st meeting back after the summer break, and everyone was in great form catching up and chatting.

Our new Chairperson Paula Rafferty welcomed everyone back and presented a slideshow from the recent Festival of Quilts show with prize-winners, quilts that caught her eye etc. 

We had a discussion/brain-storming about our Branch exhibition and ideas for the theme "The Hare's Corner". 

Ruth Bourke demoed the next BOM block which was an EPP (English paper piecing) flower block. 

We had a great show & tell, with lots of work shown by our members. One very diligent person also showed us her finished Hare's Corner piece - 1st person to finish so far! 

Here's Helen showing a lovely piece showing the life cycle of an apple. 

Anita McMahon showed a very sweet Spiderman quilt that her grandson made

Loretta O'Brien showed her winning quilt from Tinahealy (plus her trophy) 

Mid-west branch member Anna Hutchinson is having her own art exhibition at Ebzery's Boutique Cafe, Foynes, Co. Limerick from 19th July - 5th August.

Opening night is Friday 18th July from 6-9pm. 

https://www.theannahutchinson.com/

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.