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.

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