Lots of Changes

Its been a while since I last posted and there have been lots of major changes to update you with.

Earlier this year, we made the decision to move the fabric out of the Royal Bridlington.  Our Extra wide fabrics had taken over every possible available space and we had run out of room!

So In May, we manage to secure a local industrial unit with great natural light and plenty of parking and we began to design our new space.  This involved the purchase and building of lots more shelving, electrical work to install sockets, alarm system and cctv.

Gradually we began to move our stock in and of course order some more too -lol so we can cover all your patchwork and quilting requirements. 

We now also have a range of standard width fabric to - many at a great price of just £8 per metre, Precuts, tools, thread, notions, patterns, waddings etc 

The unit is now open a couple of days a week and as always appointments can be made for other times to suit.

It is also planned to move the longarm to the unit and when this happens, the opening times will increase.

We are really enjoying our new space and we are grateful to all the lovely people who have already visited us there.

Retreats

Here is the Update we have published on our Facebook page today.

The End of an Era…..

Sadly we have made the decision to stop doing retreats.

There are many reasons why –

Ever rising costs – food, staff, heating, power and overheads are spiralling out of control. Realistically the only way to be able to provide a reasonably priced retreat is now to increase the numbers of students dramatically and more space and bedrooms would be needed.

We originally built the retreats to provide much needed work out of season for our staff, but now in reality we end up doing the majority of the work. We have had some lovely staff over the years who have also benefited from this out of season work but more recently and now for several years now, we have struggled with the reliability of some of the local staff.

Our increasing age – we are no longer spring chickens! And when staff let us down we end up having to jump in. This undoubtedly causes great stress. Working from 7am to 11pm every day doing breakfast, morning coffee, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner plus all our other jobs is now just far too much.

During Covid, many tutors took their teaching on line and other also rethought their plans and retired. Also there was a reluctance to socialise to the extent needed on a retreat for several years after covid and numbers certainly took a drop with both residential students and locals.

Over the last 20 years here at the Royal Bridlington, we have brought in many famous tutors from all over the world to come and teach and students too have come from all over the world to attend. These retreats have also been open for locals to attend on a daily workshop basis. We have learnt lots and had some great laughs along the way and made some lovely friendships too. We have also provided facilities for groups to come along and do their own retreats and we have had many groups from all over the country to come and stay. We have also organised and run two quilt shows which raised many hundreds of pounds for local charities. Its such a shame it cannot continue, but our health and well being now needs to take priority.

We are certain that the local shops will also miss our students who over the years have spent considerable sums on supplies during their stays.

We will of course be continuing to provide bed and breakfast at the Royal Bridlington, and Self catering in our DaisyChainholidays bungalows in Sewerby. We will be moving our Longarm to our new unit and this will mean the opening times will increase. Along with the biggest range of extra wide fabrics in the UK we now also stock a range of standard width fabrics – most being just £8 per metre! Precuts, waddings, tools, patterns, thread etc etc. Opening times can be found on our facebook page and Quilt Sandwich website.

We would like to wish all our retreaters and our tutors the very best for the future and we look forward to seeing you at our new unit or at one of the many shows we attend.

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Our new Unit is located at -

Unit 6C Carnaby Industrial Estate

Lancaster Road

Bridlington

YO15 3QY

What Three Words - Songbird, Teadrop, Luxury.

Drive past John Bull Rock Factory and another couple of blocks and you will see a sign for Carnaby Tyres on the left. Drive into that compound and we are on the opposite side.

Opening times - check our Quilt Sandwich website  here -

https://www.quiltsandwich.co.uk/contact

or our Facebook page here -https://www.facebook.com/QuiltSandwich/

Our self catering properties can be found on our website here -

https://www.daisychainholidays.co.uk/

Amazing Value Retreat with Alicia Merrett

Amazing Value Retreat with Alicia Merrett

Three day retreat in Bridlington with Alicia Merrett on 7th,8th & 9th October 2019.

During the retreat Alicia Merrett will be teaching her special workshop entitled 'INTERPRETING KLEE AND KANDINSKY'

Both Paul Klee and Vassily Kandinsky’s drawings and paintings feel as if they could easily be translated into quilts. We will first observe the way the two artists used shape, colour and line in their work to achieve amazing designs with rhythm and balance. 

Then each participant will construct their own abstract fused fabric collages, inspired by the work of those artists. We will then look into how the drawn line can become the stitched line; our machine needle will be the ‘point in motion’ from which the line derives. As Paul Klee said, we will ‘take a line for a walk’. 

Medieval Textile Tiles

Medieval tiles are found in many ancient churches, cathedrals and abbeys, and have beautiful designs that have often inspired modern tile design. Designs are often heraldic, incorporating castles, shields, birds, lions, eagles, and mythical creatures such as wyverns and griffins; they can also be foliated (based on nature). They can be very effectively translated into textile ‘tiles’. Each participant will trace a design, chosen among those provided by the tutor; assemble the tile in fabric, quilt it, and mount it on a 6” by 6” stretched canvas frame.



The tutor will provide the stretched canvas frames; a variety of ‘tile’ designs to trace from; some materials, and some tools for use in the class. The likely cost of the kit per student will be £8.



Alicia’s passions are colour, shape, line and texture. She creates improvisational textile pieces by freehand cutting and stitching, and also by collaging and bonding hand-dyed fabrics, using her signature fine pieced lines, and adding texture with quilting. Text is sometimes included. Alicia works in series, and her inspiration is varied, but she is best known for her work on textile maps. However more recently she has been trying to marry her long-standing interest in photography and in computer work, to produce original designs that can be printed on fabric and then quilted. Alicia exhibits and teaches internationally.

About the venue –

The Royal Bridlington is a 4 star AA Guest Accommodation based in the beautiful South Beach area of Bridlington. There are 18 individually decorated en suite rooms. Food is always high on the agenda and fresh seasonal produce is used where possible and portions are certainly not small!

Want to do all workshops?

Live local?  Book all three workshops for £170 or £60 per day.

Need to stay – All three workshops, 2 nights accommodation and dinner for £300 per person sharing or £320 for single occupancy. 

Extra Nights – Dinner, Bed and Breakfast for extra nights at the special price of £62 per night per person (twin) or £72 per person single occupancy.

How to Book for your Patchwork and Quilting retreat with Alicia Merrett -

Call the Royal Bridlington on 01262 672433.

Deposits – For the residential course a deposit of £50 is required and for the day Course a deposit of £10 to reserve your place. The Balance is due 6 weeks prior to arrival.

Patchwork & Quilting Workshops and Retreats 2017

Patchwork & Quilting Workshops and Retreats 2017 at Quilt Sandwich, The Royal Bridlington, Bridlington

Here is a list of what we have got planned so far -

Kathleen Laurel Sage        27, 18, 29 March 2017

           Learn some great new skills on Fabric making!

ME Time Retreat                 7th to 14th April—2days to full week

           Come and relax, use the facilities and get fed!

Lilian Hedley                         7, 8, 9, 10, 11 May 2017

           Learn some new Hand Quilting Skills from the Best!

Sally Holman                        24, 25, 26 July 2017

           Xmas coming early + signature pieces of Creating a Scene

  

Anja Townrow                   25, 26, 27 September 2017

  Makes Foundation Piecing pain & complicated work a thing of the past!

Janice Gunner                   3, 4, 5 October 2017

  Textile artist, quilter & author with 22 years teaching experience (C&G) 

Alicia Merrett                     17, 18, 19 October 2017

  With her unique Contemporary Quilt Art & exciting mapping.

Gail Lawther                      25, 26, 27 October 2017

Claudia Pfeil from Germany 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th November 2017

  Paint! Sew! And Quilt! With Claudia in this Magnificent retreat!

Jan Hassard        November 2017

Pat Archibald         November 2017

Jennie Rayment        January 2018

 Further details can be found on our website here -

http://www.quiltsandwich.co.uk/workshops--retreats

Three Fabulous Days with Pat Archibald

This week saw the return of Pat Archibald to Quilt Sandwich at The Royal Bridlington. As usual her classes were fully booked.

The first day was Leaves in Lutradur

After the first morning briefing and tea and homemade biscuits, the students set about having fun with paints and painting their lutradur.

Leaves shapes were then cut out and embellished. These were later then sewn on to the background , layered up with wadding and backing and quilted.

The project for Day Two was an Indian Dowry Bag. Pats briefing included tales from her journey to India which everyone really enjoyed.

Here are some of the students work in progress

Day Three and our final day with Pat this year, the project is Auspicious Symbols.

Todays techniques include applique, creating a stencil and using markel paintsticks, foiling, couching and quilting

Here are some of the students work in progress

Pats examples

All in all the students had a great time and have asked for Pat to come back again.  Remember to sign up to our newsmail list to be kept informed of new workshops and retreats.

You can sign up here -   newsmail sign up

Workshops/retreats and longarm quilting service and my shop with over 50 extra wide backings can be found here - www.quiltsandwich.co.uk


Two LOCAL QUILT SHOWS

Raw Edgers”

Patchwork & Quilt

Exhibition

Sat 23rd to Mon 25th May

St James’ Church, High St., Rawcliffe, Nr Goole DN14 8QL

Open Saturday & Monday 10am to 4 pm

Sunday 11am to 4pm

Entrance by Programme £3

Accompanied under 12’s free

Light Refreshments, tombola, Trade Stand

Disabled access into Church

Proceeds to charities

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Kilham Quilters Present

“All Stitched Up”

TO BE HELD AT ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH and VILLAGE HALL KILHAM,  Nr  DRIFFIELD SATURDAY 30TH – SUNDAY 31ST MAY 2015 10.00 A.M. UNTIL 4.00 P.M.

Admission   £3.00   Programme  £1.00

An exhibition of quilts, wall hangings, table runners, bags , toys and many more inspirational textile products. Come and be inspired by our love for stitching Enjoy –    Kilham   Quilters  ‘Fat Quarter Challenge ‘ ALSO Tombola Craft Stall Fabric Sales Refreshments

proceeds for the village Hall and Yorkshire Cancer Research