Set in a beautiful location just outside Oxford, I spent the past weekend at the Sewcial Retreat organised by Purple Stitches. It was completely fabulous! I got to spend time with quilty friends, as well as meeting lots of inspiring new people and they were all sewing gorgeous projects! I really enjoy seeing works in progress and there were recommendations for various sewing patterns, so more projects have been added to my 'to sew' list.
Trudi Wood and I were teaching at the retreat. I taught my new English Paper Pieced pattern - the Cube Row Quilt, which will be available to buy soon. I had really nice feedback from the group and I'm looking forward to seeing people create it!
There was a fabulous trunk show by Trudi, with so many of her gorgeous quilts, interesting stories and tales of lessons learnt!
There were also a few quilts for Siblings Together - lovely Nicky Eglinton is organising a quilt drive, you can find more information on her blog.
Here's a fun selfie of some of the retreat goers taken by Samantha with her selfie stick!
There was a generous goodie bag full of awesome. Thanks to Purple Stitches, Aurifil, Sewing Patterns by Mrs H, Anbo Textiles Ltd, EQS, The Crafty Nomad, Love Patchwork & Quilting, Quilt Now and Sew Now.
I got to meet lovely Helen Steele who creates gorgeous hand screen printed panels. I love her designs and the amazing colour combinations. I've actually already cut some of these up because they are going in my current project!
And with a Purple Stitches pop up shop how could I not indulge?! Especially when I saw that Kona Panel, it is just gorgeous. I also got a couple of Carolyn Friedlander prints - Check It in Graphite, Euclid and Letter in Black, Architextures. This seam ripper has been on my wish list for a while now because I think the thread removers on the end could be very useful!
Thank you to Viv for organising and running such a wonderful retreat! I left feeling totally relaxed and completely full of ideas, I am so motivated right now. Spending time with so many lovely quilting people has refreshed me and I wish we could do it every weekend!
Do check out the Purple Stitches shop for beautiful fabric, useful notions and more and watch out for the next retreat!
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It really does sound a lot of fun. I have that stitch ripper and wondered what the tip was for! Looking forward to your new pattern coming out.