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.

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