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.

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