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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The programme for the 2010 - 2011 season

SEPTEMBER 2010- :Phyl Maxwell
Saturday 4th talk - Phyl Maxwell will talk about her own work

OCTOBER 2010 - :Janice Gunner www.janicegunner.co.uk
Saturday 2nd talk - Tokyo to Kyoto
Sunday 3rd workshop - Log Cabin with attitude

NOVEMBER 2010 - : Yvonne Brown http://www.yvonnebrown.co.uk
Saturday 6th talk - Threads of Life
Sunday 7th workshop - Medieval Magic

DECEMBER 2010 -
Sat 4th - Christmas Meeting - quilts on display. Quilts will be to the themes of Christmas or Dream Catcher.

JANUARY 2011 - Helen Heron
Saturday 8th talk - Helen's Seamus Heaney Exhibition

FEBRUARY 2011 - Miriam Gogarty
Saturday 5th - Miriam Gogarty will talk about her own work.
Sunday 6th workshop - Make a small landscape.

February 11-13th........Residential Weekend in Glenada, Newcastle

MARCH 2011 - Judy Fairless
Saturday 5th talk - Journal quilts
Sunday 6th workshop - Inspired by Matisse

APRIL 2011- : - Christine Porter www.christineporterquilts.com
Saturday 2nd talk - My Journey Through the Quilt World
Sunday 3rd workshop - Tumbling Blocks the Easy Way

MAY 2011- Valerie Wilson
Saturday 7th talk - The Sewing Machine

JUNE 2010
Saturday 4th- AGM

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 May 2010