June 7th – 10th 2012
Brought to you by Irish Patchwork Society, Northern IrelandPatchwork Guild, The Quilter's Guild of Ireland and Sew Many Places.
"Unlike other quilt festivals and conventions held around the
world, where all the functions take place in an enormous convention hall, our
festival will be located on the beautiful NUI campus in Galway, Ireland, where
we are designing a special Quilter’s Village on the banks of the River Corrib.
Here you’ll be able to walk around and enjoy all the special attractions this
village has to offer.
There will be a Quilter’s Market where you can buy
everything from Irish crafts to traditional Irish Brown Bread, the Fat Quarters
Chocolate Shop, a School House for our hands-on quilting classes, a Quilter's
Canteen that seats over 800 people, over a dozen special quilt exhibits on
display in various buildings throughout the village, and the Town Hall, where
you will find over 50 vendors who have created booths to tease you with their
latest state-of-the-art products and services!"
Individual Rate: €15 euros per day/3 day pass for €28
Group rate: 10 or more people is €13 euros per person per
day/€25 euros per person for a 3 day pass.
There is also a range of non-quilting classes including an
overnight “Knitting in the Aran Islands tour”, Jewelry Making, Felt Making, Knitting,
Crocheting, Pottery, Irish Lace Making, Weaving, Stained Glass Making, Candle
Making, Glass Making , Basket Weaving, Embroidery, Painting, Beading, Doll
Making.
If you are interested in travelling from abroad, there is a
number of package tours being arranged, visit www.iqfoi.com/tours.html for more
information
For a full schedule of events visit: www.iqfoi.com
Email: info@IQFOI.com
The International Quilt Festival of Ireland managing
director is Jim West. Jim is originally from Illinois in America, but now calls
Galway, Ireland his home. He is the owner of Sew Many Places travel company and
publisher of the free, quarterly magazine for quilters called Quiltposium, with
over 207,000 registered readers.
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