Wicklow Patchwork Group
We first met in the spring of 2014 and have been meeting every month since. Today, we have over 100 members largely from the Wicklow, South Dublin and Wexford areas. We enjoy patchwork and quilting and all that goes with it. We meet on the 3rd Saturday of each month from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. in Newtownmountkennedy Community Hall.
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Coming Next/News
Saturday 9th December 2023 – 11.00 a.m.
(Doors open from 10.00 a.m.)
The December meeting is all about Christmas! There will be various demonstrations by members. Tea/coffee, non-alcoholic mulled wine and mince pies will be available.
Bring along a gift (value max €10 or a home made item) to share for the Kris Kindle and collect a gift at the end of meeting.
Christmas fabric panels will be on sale.
Entries for the Christmas Challenge projects will be judged.
There will be a charity swap table – magazines/books dealing with textile or sewing only please. Fabric and sewing notions welcome.
Quilts on display at the Enniskerry Christmas Fair on 2nd December will be returned to their owners at this meeting.
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Saturday 2nd December 2023
Enniskerry Parish will be holding a Christmas Fair in St. Patrick’s Church and we will display WPG members quilts in the church. We will also have a sale table for which we ask you to make a small item/s that can be sold at the fair – items need not be necessarily on the Christmas theme. The sale proceeds will go to the charity, Charabanc. Charabanc is a caring Resource for Older People and we are pleased to have nominated them as the WPG charity for 2023. A further quilt, pieced by members, will be raffled on the day – proceeds also in aid of Charabanc.
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Saturday 18th November 2023 – 11.00 a.m.
(Doors open from 10.00 a.m.)
Tomomi McElwee of Slaney Quilting Studio https://slaneyquiltingstudio.com/ will bring along her fabric shop to the meeting. Tomomi will talk about her upcoming stained glass workshop to be held after the January 2024 meeting.
Bring along your quilts to be exhibited at the Christmas Fair on 2nd December in Enniskerry. Also any items which you have made for sale on the day in aid of Charabanc. Tickets for the log cabin quilt and other items to be raffled at the Fair will be on sale at the meeting.
In the afternoon, Helen Dodd will give a workshop on a Project Bag.
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Saturday 21st October 2023 – 11.00 a.m.
(Doors open from 10.00 a.m.)
Fiona Mackey proprietor of The Sewing Drawer from Donegal will bring along her shop to the meeting.
Entries for the Halloween Challenge will be judged.
John O’Donnell will be servicing/repairing sewing machines and there will also be a scissors sharpening service on the day.
A representative from Jigsaw Wicklow will give a talk about the charity.
The the afternoon there will be a workshop on Sashiko stitching.
There will also be an opportunity for people to sit and sew.
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Saturday 16th September 2023 – 11.00 a.m.
(Doors open from 10.00 a.m.)
This meeting will be held outdoors with a quilt exhibition to be held in the Community Centre car park, Newtownmountkennedy.
Don McNeill will have a fabric sale.
A quilt raffle will be held in aid of this year’s WPG charity, Charabanc.
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Saturday 19th August 2023 – 11.00 a.m.
(Doors open from 10.00 a.m.)
The theme for this meeting is Christmas in August with various demos for Christmas projects.
There will be no fabric shop so please bring along unwanted fabric, notions etc. for the charity table. Proceeds will go towards this year’s charity, Charabanc.
Details of a Halloween Challenge will be available.
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Saturday 29th July 2023
There will be no formal meeting this day. Helen Dodd will give a workshop on how to make a child’s Summer dress/pinafore.
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Saturday 15th July 2023 – 11.00 a.m.
(Doors open from 10.00 a.m.)
The July meeting will be held on Saturday 15th July 2023.
Pauline Kiernan from The Irish Guild of Embroiders will be the speaker at meeting.
There will be no fabric shop so please bring along unwanted fabric, notions etc. for the charity table. Proceeds will go towards this year’s charity, Charabanc
Our Chair, Moira Byrne, will give a workshop on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th on dyeing fabrics. If you are interested in attending, please contact the workshop organiser Geraldine McGettigan – workshops@wickowpatchwork.ie.
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Saturday 17th June 2023 – 11.00 a.m.
(Doors open from 10.00 a.m.)
The June meeting will be held on Saturday 17th June 2023. Our Chair, Moira Byrne, will be the speaker for the meeting and will give a talk on fabric dyeing. The shop will be The Crafty Fox.
There will be an afternoon workshop with WPG Member, Susan Kay.
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Update Thurs 21/09/23………
WPG Committee Members were delighted to be invited at the Wicklow Hospice for their annual Hospice Coffee Morning Social. As part of their ongoing fundraising campaign, the Hospice have decided to raffle one of the quilts which was sewn by WPG members. We were happy to have been able to help the Hospice and we wish them well and continued success in the wonderful services and support which they provide in the Wicklow area.
Charity Quilt – Wicklow Hospice
Lorna Lafferty (Secretary WPG), Moira Byrne (Chair WPG) and Alison Ryder, Fundraiser for Wicklow Hospice
On Thursday, 24th November 2022 it was a great pleasure to present three quilts and one cushion cover to Wicklow Hospice. Wicklow Hospice was our 2018 Charity for which we raised €2,200. After ten years of fundraising, the Hospice admitted its first patient in December 2020.
The three quilts were sewn from blocks made by members which were left over from our 2020 Charity Quilt. They were assembled by member Kirsty Whaley and her friends, Dorothy Seagrove, Joan Chaplin and Brenda Millett. They were also beautifully quilted by Dorothy. Many thanks to them for all their hard work and also to our members for making so many blocks!
