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.

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