Hands Across the Border 2017

The Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild  and The Irish Patchwork Society 2017  “Hands Across the Border 2017” was presented under the theme “Aurora”.

The NIPG was delighted with the attention and comments which this exhibition received, not just from the quilting community, but from non-quilters who visited the exhibition. Congratulations to each and everyone who had submitted a piece. Next Hands Across the Border is 2019.

Quilters and their friends made the trip from all parts of Ireland and left some really heartwarming comments, for which we thank you all.

Message from Ruth Bourke, Irish Patchwork Society Chair 2017.

Thank you to all who took part in our celebration of Aurora and a special thanks to the organisers of the exhibitions in The CHQ Building, Dublin and The Island Centre, Lisburn.
So much work goes into the preparation, hanging of the quilts and invigilation, it is very much appreciated.
Of course, a big thank you goes to all the quilt makers whose stunning and vibrant works were a joy to see hanging together!

Congratulations to Olena Pugachora from the Irish Patchwork Society  whose quilt, “Dance of the Goddess” was voted the visitors’ favourite. This is our featured image on this page and is pretty spectacular.  Hoping to add a selection of comments from visitors to this page soon.

A special thank you to our NIPG member Brian McKenna for these photographs which he took when the exhibition was in situ. If you would like to see more about each quilt, just click on the image and the name of the maker and title of the quilt should appear. Then scroll down slightly (or perhaps more, depending on the device you are using) to see what the maker has written about the quilt.

Gillian Barr ‘Catching the light’
Loretta O’Brien “HWG ÉÓS”
Mary Nolan Murphy “Aurora Flow”
Madeline Jordan ‘Heaven’s above’
Imelda O’Grady “Northern Light”
Irene MacWilliam ‘Aurora’
Kelly Fogerty ‘Dawn Portmarnock Beach’
Claire Lynch ‘Aurora-Alien Landscape’
Jayne McClenaghan ‘Aurora gone crazy’
Paula Ellis “Spring Sunrise”
Felicity Aston The Donzerly Light
Maureen Kennedy ‘Greeting the morning’
Frances Shanahan “Donegal Lights”
Anna E. Campbell ‘Scrappy Zappy Do-Aurora’
Esme Edwards ‘Aurora from the Knockagh Monument to Mossley Mill’
Janet Kirkwood ‘Aurora’
Anna Campbell ‘Aurora’
Margaret McEvoy ‘Goosey feathers’
Sheila Cleary ‘Aurora’
Linda Hamilton ‘The light of dawn’
Jane Horner ‘Aura of flowers’
Valerie Mulally “Midnight Moonlight”
Ursula O’Sullivan “Birdsong”
Kate Hennessy ‘Indian dawn’
Ruth Bourke ‘What the camera sees’
Olena Pugachova “Dance of the Goddess”
Joy McCormack “Purple Dawn”
Elizabeth Brennan ‘New York Convergence’
Anne Hardcastle ‘Aurora’
Sue Mulvihill
Thérèse Roche “Celtic Dawn”
Valerie McKeown Aurora
Anne French ‘Enchanted Aurora’
Notifcation
Linda Cowbert ‘Aurora Goddess of the dawn’
Tomomi McElwee “Falling”
Ann Blachford ‘Poles apart’
Irene McCarthy ‘Aurora’
Suzanne Pass “Sunrise, sunrise”
Louise Mullane “Northern Light”
Anne Rowlands “Tangerine Burst”
Margaret McCrory ‘Aurora – Goddess of the dawn’
Mary McCormick ‘Norwegian dusk’
Sharon Hughes ‘Southern Lights’
Sheryl L. Cullen “Bearly Aurora”
Martha Cromie ‘Spirit of Aurora’
Anne James “The Dawn of Time”
Deborah Baillie ‘Aurora’
Nikki Foley ‘Aurora’
Gillian Killick ‘A new dawn’
Hazel McCullagh ‘The Northern Lights’
Suzanne Pass “Green Horizon”
Janet Kirkwood ‘Dawn at Dunluce Castle, Co Antrim
Ethleda Ellis ‘Princess Aurora’
Mari Moran “Revontulet ie Fox Fires”
Ursula O’Sullivan “Daybreak in Erris”
Mary Maguire ‘Under an Artic sky’
Maria Bolton ‘The Lure of Northern Lights’
Helen Heron ‘Aurora Queen of the night’
Dearbhla O’Reilly “Circles of colour”
Paula Rafferty “Brigid”
Joanna Harrington ‘Morning star’
Maya Toscani “Princess Aurora-Sleeping Beauty”
Evelyn Brady ‘Escape to infinity’