Talks and Workshops

The Guild normally meets on the first Saturday of the month in the Parochial Hall of the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra. We will try and put up any change of venue on this page of the site. Please check every month that there is no change of venue.

Do not pay at the kiosk say you are going to the Patchwork Guild and ask for directions. Meetings open at 10.15 am with tea or coffee. There is a small visitor's fee. There is a comprehensive guild library of books and journals.

At 11.00 am the meeting proper opens. Usually it is a speaker using slides to illustrate her subject together with a selection of work. Occasionally if the speaker has travelled by car the presentation may be a display of actual work. Most months speakers take workshops on Fridays or Sundays, sometimes there is a half day workshop after the talk. We have had speakers and teachers from USA, Germany, Holland, England and Ireland.

Visitors are very welcome. It can be a bit intimidating, so on entry to the hall ask to be introduced to the membership secretary who will find someone to look after you.

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The programme for the 2011 - 2012 season

SEPTEMBER 2011
September 3rd - Edwina Mackinnon Talk - Colour Stories
Sunday 4th Workshop - Cut and come again quilt  Requirements list

OCTOBER 2011- :
October 1st - Gaye Grant of the Fennel Shed -Talk - Will not be at the UFTM. Meeting will be in St Dorothea's Church Hall, Gilnahirk. Usual time.
Sunday 2nd - Workshop - Yvonne McKee Free machine quilting. Requirements list

NOVEMBER 2011
Saturday 5th - Karen Nickell - Through the Looking Glass
www.karennickell.co.uk
Sunday 6th - Sew it yourself. Bring along work, socialise and get help from others.

DECEMBER 2011
Saturday 3rd - Christmas Challenge- show of up to 4 A4 pieces to your own theme and method.

JANUARY 2012 -
Saturday 7th - Show and tell of workshop pieces, finished and unfinished.
Sunday 8th - Sew it yourself. Bring along work, socialise and get help from others.

FEBRUARY 2012
Saturday 4th - Ferret Talk - Quilter? Artist? Lunatic?
Sunday 5th Workshop - Textures, feathers, fur and scale. Requirements list
http://ferfab.blogspot.com

February 10th - Glenada residential weekend.

MARCH 2012 - 2 meetings in March.
Saturday 3rd - Patricia Kelly Talk - Person and Place Will not be at the UFTM. It will be at St Dorothea's, 2-4 Gortland Park, Belfast, BT5 7NU. St Dorotheas is off Lower Braniel Road which in turn is off Gilnahirk Road. If travelling by bus it is either a no 19 or no 18 departing from Donegal Square West

Sunday 4th Workshop - Person and Place Requirements list

Saturday 31st- Dawn Mitchell Talk - Juxtaposition. Will not be at the UFTM, St Dorothea's. It will be at St Dorothea's, 2-4 Gortland Park, Belfast, BT5 7NUWill not be at the UFTM. It will be at St Dorothea's, 2-4 Gortland Park, Belfast, BT5 7NU. St Dorotheas is off Lower Braniel Road which in turn is off Gilnahirk Road. If travelling by bus it is either a no 19 or no 18 departing from Donegal Square West

APRIL 2012
Sunday 1st - Irene MacWilliam - workshop- Make Your Mark, Make Your Fabric, screen printing without expensive screens, printing and painting fabric. A fun day of messing. www.macwilliam.f9.co.uk    flickr http://flic.kr/ps/23XmR1    Requirements list

MAY 2012
Saturday 5th - Judith Dursley Talk - I'm maximum, They're minimum
Sunday 6th - Workshop - Minatures without tears

JUNE 2012
Saturday 4th - AGM

Names of talks and subjects of workshops will be added when they are finalised. Please check every month that there is no change of venue.

There are places available on some of the workshops. For further details contact the organizer using the NIPG email button.

updated 2011