Irene MacWilliam
Year Quilts

20 panel quilt depicting world events
85 x 55 inches

1. Spycatcher, furore over book by former MI5 officer
2. King’s Cross fire
3. Worldwide spread of AIDS
4. Sunday opening of pubs in Northern Ireland
5. Zeebrugge ferry disaster
6. European year of the Environment
7. USA and Russia agree on arms limitation
8. Extreme weather over the British Isles
9. Enniskillen - Poppy Day bombing
10. Record price for Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’
11. Sale of the Duchess of Windsor’s jewels to raise money for AIDS research
12. General election, UK
13. Branson’s trans-Atlantic balloon flight
14. Famine in Africa
15. M. Russ flies light aircraft into Red Square
16. Conflict in Arabian states
17. Vast forest fires in China
18. Records: microlight flight, first Irish woman to swim channel, trans-atlantic row
19. Hole in ozone layer, concern over CFCs
20. Events of 1987

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