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.

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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2008

August - Special summer workshops 27 and 28th August 2008 BONNIE LYN McCAFFREY (USA )- Painted Faces
Bonnie's workshop will give you the techniques necessary to paint very realistic faces (and to understand something about light and shadow). http://bonniemccaffery.com/

September
6th Janet Twinn - talk- From Canvas to Calico   http://www.janettwinn.co.uk
7th Sunday workshop - Colour Association:   A workshop aimed at helping students to use colour to create mood and atmosphere, beginning with an understanding of the colour circle and looking at the symbolism of colour and its emotional impact. Activities will include collage and the use of resist mediums and paint

October
4th Frieda Oxenham- talk - Going Around in Circles   www.friedaquilter.blogspot.com
5th Sunday workshop -Workshop Artists Trading cards:  

25th October - 9th November- 2008 Joint Guilds Textile Exhibition- UFTM ....all members are invited to exhibit

November
1st Anne Steele - talk - Patchwork Personalities
2nd Sunday workshop - Japanese Folded Patchworkwith Irene MacWilliam    www.macwilliam.f9.co.uk     Various shapes will be explored; squares, diamonds, triangles, hexagons. These produce double sided units that can be made into decorations, wall hangings, fabric boxes or full size quilts. We also look at other origami based patches. . Students will finish samples that can be used as decorations or the start of a project. All levels of ability. Mostly or all hand work

December
6th Christmas party and Charity Challenge Make a hanging of any size to the theme - A Journey

2009

January
'At Home'

February
Sat. 7th Suzanne Agnew and Garnet Smalley - CANADA
Sun. 8th Workshop - Suzanne Agnew - 'Thread Painting'

March
Sat.7th Mirjam Pet-Jacobs from Netherlands - talk - My Way http://www.mirjampetjacobs.nl/
Sat. 7th afternoon 1/2 day workshop -Tyvek Vessels:   Small adventures in 3D. Regular sewing techniques for flat work can also be used to make small three dimensional objects. In this freehand machine stitching workshop new techniques and materials (tyvek) will be used to make small containers. 
Sun. 8th Workshop -A painterly effect with modern Crazy Patchwork:     Students will make patchwork panels of many small pieces of different fabrics, of a few fabrics, or of only one (hand-dyed) fabric. With freehand cutting techniques the panels will be combined with a (hand-dyed) fabric to make a quilt top of about 70 x 50 cm.

April
Sat. 4th Sheena Norquay -Talk - My Work and the Orkney Influence
Sun. 5th Workshop - Decorative Free Machine Quilting:  This is a workshop for students who have had some experience in free machine quilting and who wish to expand their quilting vocabulary using decorative lines.
Students will stitch a series of decorative lines, which are useful for narrow borders, and then be shown how lines can be used to create movement, pattern and texture. The designs will be stitched inside squares and rectangles.
Drawings, photos, samples and finished pieces of work will be shown so that students can see how the exercises and techniques can be used on pieced and appliquéd work as well as on whole cloth samples.


May
Sat.2nd Grania McElligott - Talk - Stoneworks
Sun. 3rd Workshop - Small Wholecloth Quilts

June
AGM

September Vikki Pignatelli from USA www.vikkipignatelli.com

October Philippa Naylor

November Claire Tinsley http://www.clairetinsley.co.uk

Names of talks and subjects of workshops will be added when they are finalised.

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

updated June 2008