The biannual national exhibition of the Irish Patchwork Society is open at the National Botanic Gardens in Dublin.

The theme this year is ‘echo’, and we had to have something sapphire since it’s the 45th anniversary.

I learnt the word ” echo ” as a child was as a sound phenomenon. We shout at the top of a mountain, and an echo comes back. It was a highlight of school hiking. Simple, innocent time.

Since then, I learned various concepts of echo. Another thing we learned was that sound is a wave which can be visualised.

A sound wave goes one way and bounces back. And they collide is my idea for this quilt.

First, to make two sound waves, and they have to be mirror images. No actual photo of them. So here is an image.

I cut them up, on the left, and put them together, on the right. There was a bit of adjustment, so the blue lines look continuous.

What would you quilt to express echo? Rather than staying in echo, I extended the idea to reflection. What I want to reflect in my quilts.

There are birds, fish, butterflies, and other things I like to quilt.

The backing is made up of fabrics I dyed a long time ago with leaves and nuts.

It’s 20″ by 30″. The exhibition is open until the 23rd of April.

The other news!

I was featured on the Create Whimsy website. Hop over to read about me if you like.