ME-Time Retreat

This week has seen our very first Me-Time Retreat here at The Royal Bridlington.

ME-Time is just what is says - time for yourself to enjoy your own craft without the usual distractions of making meals, looking after the other half and family, the phone etc.  It time for you to Chill and enjoy and be looked after with delicious meals and homemade treats.

Of course everyone is very willing to help each other and offer advice should the need arise.

Krys decided to work on quilting her sampler quilt for the three days.

Sylvia worked on an Heirloom Quilt project similar to Pauline Ineson's quilt pictured here.

Janet worked on various dolls which she is hoping to retail them at local craft fairs.

Mary worked on a quilt which needed quilting and binding.

 Other ladies brought their knitting, cross stitch, and other patchwork projects.

Personally I worked on several UFOS from the ever growing pile.
I now have three quilt tops and backs ready for quilting, one finished quilt as you go bargello (except for binding to sew down)  and a few more snail trail blocks for another.

Our facilities are available for groups to organise their own retreats - just contact Fiona for more details -  Tel 01262 672433 or click here to email.

Details of our workshops and retreats can be found on our website  http://www.quiltsandwich.co.uk along with my online shop for wadding & backing fabrics & details of my longarm quilting service.

Dressmaking Courses & Machine Skills

 Celia Banks from Sew Fundamental will be teaching here at The Royal Bridlington in November & December.

Following requests for workshops and retreats suitable for all levels of ability, we have put together a superb programme for this winter.

We kick off with 'Getting to know/Mastering your machine'. This is a great one for beginners and anyone with a new machine.

Next we move on to essential techniques. Celia will be teaching buttonholes of all descriptions and then zips - again covering various different methods.

The final day is making and fitting a skirt.

Full details of these workshops / retreat can be found on the website http://www.quiltsandwich.co.uk

In December we shall be covering Fearless Overlocking.  If you have an overlocker and get frustrated with it or not quite sure what your overlocker can do or even if you are thinking about purchasing an overlocker ...this is for you.

The next two days are called Fit for Fashion and Celia will be teaching us how to make clothes that really fit using the Palmer Pletsch technique.

Again full details can be found on the website http://www.quiltsandwich.co.uk

Final Day with Leonie Pujol.....awwww

The theme for today workshop was Backgrounds.

This morning Leonie went out shopping before class and she bought....

ummmm   wonder what she is going to do with that?........................

A distressed back ground of course!

The students (and Leonie) had a superb three days and area all looking forward to a return visit.

Final Day with Sally Ablett

Well today was the last day of our retreat with Sally Ablett.

The project day was 'link' Quilt.  Here is Sallys example -

This is another one of Sally Designs whereby you work on a quarter at a time.

Four, slighly different blocks make up a quarter......

here are some of the ladies works

We have all enjoyed a superb retreat with Sally and found her to be very relaxed, genuine and giving.  Needless to say, we shall be booking her again for 2015.

AND........here she is - lol!

Second Day With Sally Ablett

Todays project was Lone Star.

Here are some of Sally's examples

We worked on just one quarter at time.

Heres some of the students work

and here are a couple almost completed

and one student even managed to complete the whole project

and where is Sally?.........................................................

Sally has perfected the art of hiding from camera, but ........................

here she is - lol!