Irish Patchwork Society AGM takes place Saturday 2nd October

This year's national AGM takes place on Saturday 2nd October, 2010 in the Best Western Ashling Hotel, Parkgate St., Dublin 8.

The challenge this year is 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Your interpretation of this slogan to acknowledge recycling week in October'.

Margaret Woodside is the guest speaker and she will teach 2 workshops. On Sunday 3rd "Turning I - Working with leaves to make a stunning wall-hanging" and on Monday 4th "Turning II - Working with 'tree' technique to make an A4 landscape picture"

For more information see www.irishpatchwork.ie

January quilting bee

The snow and ice made it unsafe for a lot of people to travel to the January meeting and so the slideshow and talk by Naomh Muire Quilters will be postponed until the February meeting.

In the meantime we made a start on assembling the raffle quilt using the recent challenge blocks.

First the blocks were laid out on the floor. A further two blocks will be made into matching cushions.

Toni got to work pressing seams as neutral sashing was added between each block.

Mari was busy cutting sashing strips.

Margaret got to work stitching.

Mary, Joan and Colette trimmed each block to 12.5 inches.

Christmas Challenge

Lots of people participated in this month's challenge to make a Christmas gift item. There were a wide variety of gifts on display and the viewers' choice was won by Frances for her placemats. Well done Frances! And well done to everyone else for participating, it's always great when there are lots of different techniques on show.