| Description: | This embroidered quilt presents a visual history of Waterside. It was planned and co-ordinated by Eileen Hepburn, and stitched by women from cross community groupings. These women included Peggy Smith, Eileen Colhoun, and Eileen Wilson and Sister Helen from the Good Shepherds. It was sponsored by the Northern Ireland Voluntary Trust and launched by Felicity McCartney.
To date the quilt has been hanging in St. Columb's Park House. It was discovered there by Tina McLaughlin, who thought it represented well the kind of figurative quilting that was being done in Northern Ireland.
The Friendship Quilt is compiled of 9 panels depicting places, communities, institutions, church, defence points, sporting groups, youth groups, happenings, and events. These include, but are not limited to, the Siege of Derry, the Prehen Community, the Good Shepherd Convent community, and Ulster Worker's Council Strike.
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