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.

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