Print Block Exhibition at the RIAI Merrion Square 5-18th November

 

 

 

Hanging Sleeves

At last weeks National AGM, a comment was made about hanging sleeves on quilts in exhibitions.

It was felt that sometimes people aren't sure how to make hanging sleeves or how to attach them properly. A hanging sleeve that isn't attached correctly can really affect how a quilt hangs at exhibitions etc. so it is important to attach it correctly.

Most people felt that a quick demo at branch meetings would be a great way to show members how to make the hanging sleeves, so it was recommended that this be done by the branches.

Excellent hanging sleeve directions can be found on Susan Brubaker Knapp's blog at "How to Make a Quilt Sleeve"  http://wwwbluemoonriver.blogspot.ie/2007/07/how-to-make-quilt-sleeve.html.

RDS Survey on the National Crafts Competition and Travelling Exhibitions

 The RDS is currently conducting an important evaluation of the annual RDS National Crafts Competition and subsequent travelling exhibitions.

The RDS would therefore welcome your thoughts and opinions on the competition. 

If you enter the National Crafts Competition every year, or indeed have never entered, your views are very important to this research process. 

The RDS would be very much obliged if you could spend 5 minutes completing their online survey

Western Branch Exhibition

The Western Branch are holding a quilt exhibition in the 'Geata na Cathrach' Building, Fairgreen Road, Galway.

Official opening Friday September 20th at 6pm. All IPS members welcome.

Open Sat. 21st - Sun. 29th from 10am-5pm each day.

Please check with Western IPS Blog closer to the date for full details.

(The Geata na Cathrach building is on the corner between the Fairgreen Coach Station and the Radisson Hotel, 100yds from train station with plenty of parking in the underground Coach Station carpark.)"

Roses from the Heart Bonnet Exhibition

Australian artist Christina Henri is visiting Ireland with her cloth bonnet memorial that remembers the lives of the women exiled to Australia as convicts 1788-1853.

For many their crime was that of poverty. They and their children are paid tribute in Christina's memorials, 'Roses from the Heart' and ' Cherished Babies'.

You are VERY WELCOME to attend any of her events. 

From 13^th September onwards there will be a 'Roses from the Heart' bonnet exhibition in the Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.

On Wednesday 25 September at 11.00am at the Down Gaol Museum there will be a 'Blessing of the Bonnets' ceremony where babies’ bonnets created by over 200 students from Downpatrick will be included amongst the bonnets blessed.  This event includes music and refreshments. On Saturday 5^th  October in Derry, as part of the City of Culture Program, a workshop to be held in the small room of the Guild Hall from 10.00-4.00. The workshop is to create baby's bonnets from shirts sourced in Derry (connecting with the on Irish Guild of Embroiderers.

Blessing of the Bonnets' ceremony at the St Coleman's Cathedral, Cobh, County Cork on Sunday 20th October at 12.00. Accompanied by the Bedizzole Marching Band from Italy the bonnets for the 150 women and 34 children born to the exiled women on the ill-fated ship, the Neva, will be marched through the streets of Cobh to the Cobh Heritage Centre, where they will become a permanent public installation. This event is part of the Gathering/Cork Rebel Week. ALL welcome.