Retreat Info

This will be our third retreat with Hawkstone Park Hotel in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
There are only a few places remaining at this point because people booked it before I got round to making a little advert, which, in itself, is a good advert!
Here's the information, it's pretty much the same format as all other retreats I've organised.

Arriving Monday 30th March from 10.30am
Set up your sewing space, little bit of chatter and start your fun.
(Room Check in after 2pm)
Lunch @ 12.30pm.
3 course dinner @ at 6pm

Tuesday 31^st & Wednesday 1^st April
Full Breakfast menu, available from 8am - 9.30am
Lunch @ 12.30pm.
3 course dinner @ at 6pm

Thursday 2^nd April
Full Breakfast menu available from 8am - 9.30am. (Room Check Out 10am)
Lunch @ 12.30pm.
Sewing into the afternoon. You can leave at any time before 5pm 

Complimentary hot drinks and bottles of water available all day. 
The bar can sort out any other drinks you may like.

There are no restrictions to the hours of sewing. If you have the stamina for 24 hour sewing marathons, go for it!

The total cost is £495.00 with a £70.00, non-refundable deposit when you book.

Please feel free to tell your crafting chums, so long as they are independent workers.
This is a “Do your own thing” relaxed retreat.
Sewing by hand or machine, crochet, knitting, Cross-Stitch, embroidery, or a Jigsaw!

I'll leave that with you.
Contact me should you need any more information or just to book you very own self on for 4 days of relaxing stitching fun.

Phone & WhatsApp 07807530441 or via email angiequilts@gmail.com

First Stitching News 2026!

Well, here we go. It looks like this year will also be racing by, must be my age, Ha! January has kept me busy. Awful, wintry weather hasn't stopped my shop from opening as normal, mostly because I can walk there but I did have to wear my good wellie boots. I didn't, and wouldn't have, driven the journey, way too much ice and snow for my safety! I find it a bit scary to be honest.
Anyhow, it's all gone now, we're back to grey gloom. Perfect for sewing it seems!

Before Sewing Prevention Season took a grip, there was quite a lot of secret sewing going on.

This is Jackie's version of the Boho Heart quilt by Jen Kingwell. Jackie was inspired by the design but, as you can see in the second photo, she designed exactly what she wanted on graph paper. Using many more intricately pieced blocks and lots of tiny, 3" units. Can you see she quiltied millions of hearts all over the quilt? Toot toot toot Jackie, a super, fabulous and finished in good time, gifting quilt. 

What a clever (vegetarian) sausage Jackie is!

More secret sewing here. Christabelle sent this picture after gifting the quilt to it's new little owner. Fabulous bright colours for the little guy. Quilted with going faster air lines to make the cars look like they are racing. Toot toot toot for your fabulous, fast cars quilt Christabelle.

I'm hoping this quilt has been gifted by now. It's delivery got slightly postponed as Mother Nature sent an awful lurgy for the recipient so Gail had to hide from it! It could have been a cunning plan to give Gail a little more sewing time? No matter now. It's fabulous and finished 

And a beautiful Batik fabric for the backing, showing off the quilting design. Toot toot toot Gail.

Rose was happy to have finished this piece. It will be the centre stripe on the backing. It's been a challenging make, working with the angles always is, but Rose persevered. Sandwich time soon!

Sandwich Saturday happened last Friday!

Lesley is so happy with her quilt. Bright and girly and made with lots of her own stash, it's just lovely. Now starts the job of quilting, this is Lesley's first quilt. It's a design from the book Material Obsession, it's quite an old book but is available as used copies, it's out of print now.

Catching Up

What absolutely beautiful weather we've been treated to throughout Sewing Prevention Season.
I might have mentioned, a few times, that we were going away for a sewing retreat?
I'm very happy to report that we had the most wonderful time. 
Everything was perfect. Lovely, comfortable accommodation and friendly staff.
Excellent food, that's an understatement!.

Limoncello Panettone Tiramisu

A spacious and well lit sewing room.

Some of us enjoyed afternoon walks in the sunshine, Beanie included.

It was so much fun. New friends, lots of laughter. Good, long and relaxing days away.
We had ladies sewing by both machine and by hand, there was embroidery, cross-stitch, Jigsaw doing and bag making. Very few photos were taken though!

I finished my festive apron!

I'll use it every year now.

We were sad to leave, of course, but you have to go home so that you can come back don't you. And come back we will! Merry Quiltmas 2026 is already booked. If you want to know more about that, just email me for the details. It's the exact same itinerary and the same menus as 2025, we didn't need or want to change a thing, now there's a recommendation!

Merry Quiltmas

That's it then folks. All done with my shop. What a super busy last few days it was. My classroom was a bit hectic with an excited atmosphere all round.
The end of the year is fast approaching but now we get extra long days to look forward to. I believe there's a whole extra minute today!

I might have mentioned that I'm going away for the Holiday. I'm sorry if you missed that announcement, ha ha ha. I'm keeping busy prepping sewing projects, what a mess I'm making in Quilty Quarters! I've packed both pairs of clean knickers and my toothbrush, and an ancient festive frock, that's enough space taken up. Now I'll fill up with fabrics and sewing paraphernalia.

My shop is closed until Tuesday 6th of January. 

See you on the other side xx

Will You Be Sewing?

Love it or loath it, it's happening! Sewing Prevention Season has already started. Are you packing up your sewing paraphernalia to make room for guests?

With only 3 weeks now until Our Merry Quiltmas Sewing Retreat, I feel quite relieved, and lucky, not to be joining the crowds in the shops. I do love a humbug though!

There are 4 spaces available on the Merry Quiltmas Retreat.

I know it's a bit last minute, sometimes you just need to grab that opportunity.

If you would like to join us, the offer is there.

Payment would need to be made in full on booking.

I'm hoping to organize another Merry Quiltmas retreat for the next Sewing Prevention Season too, planning 2026!!

I'd love to know whether you would be interested in that. Consider it Market Research xx

This is our Christmas Day Lunch Menu, just to tempt you.

Stitching News

 That's it then folks, December!! Sewing Prevention Season has crept up on us all. Classes are busy, my shop sounds like a little sewing factory with all the machines stitching away, it's a lovely noise!
A few sandwiches have been made, quite large ones. 

 This pattern is called Notting Hill, from Cotton Street Commons. Diane's very much enjoyed making it. With her left over fabrics she's decided to make matching cushions. Di is already quilting the cushions. She decided to stitch them first, the quilt will probably be quilted during our Merry Quiltmas Sewing Retreat.

Josie's sandwich. Everyone who has made this quilt has chosen quite different fabrics and colour themes, and they all look fabulous don't they. There are quite a few Tilda fabrics in Josie's quilt too. She's going to start the quilting in her next class.

Christabelle has stopped all production on her other quilts to get this one made and finished first. Is't it fabulous. Lots of bright colours, perfect for the little fellow it's being made for. The pattern is from the book Happy Quilts by Antonie Alexander. Such a lot of lovely patterns in the book.

Rose finished this quilt top and spent a few minutes Stay-Stitching around the edges. An important thing to do when there are lots of seams on the edges. If you don't do it, the seams might (and usually do) start to undo as the quilt is being handled, pushing and pulling it through the sewing machine hole, while quilting it.

Ann is ready for her first Toot Toot Toot fanfare for this fabulous and finished quilt. Ann has an embroidery machine which she used to stitch the lions head in the bottom right corner, very clever. She already started to make another quilt with the same design, but in a different colour theme. 

Considering that I've declared many times that I am NOT purchasing ANY more fabrics in my shop, it won't surprise you to know that over 40 new bolts have been delivered in the last 2 weeks, what am I like. Don't answer that!

My shop will be open as normal for the next few weeks, right until the very last day which is Saturday 20th December. 
If anything unplanned crops up I will let you know. 

There are still 4 places available on Our Christmas Sewing Retreat if your plans have changed and you decide to join us, payment will need to be made in full. There's no time for taking deposits now. It's packing time!!!

Am I driving You Nuts?

It's a very brief post, just to remind you about our
Sewing Prevention Season antidote and tonic!
I don't mean to pester you all about this, not really.
No-one will be preventing us from sewing this year!
There's still time to treat yourself.
BUT now there are only 5 weeks left to plan your projects.

I have 4 places remaining for this Quiltmas Retreat.

You can email me with any question angiequilts@gmail.com

Also, please remember that my shop will not be open on Saturday 22nd November.

Stitching News

I have actually managed to collect a few photos. I really must get back into the habit of taking pictures, I think I talk too much, then I just forget, nothing new there. Classes are really busy at the moment. New victims have been coming to learn this wonderful craft of Patchwork & Quilting, and fabric collecting, which goes along side doesn't it.

I'm a bit late showing you this lovely project. It's Christabelle's and she made into a gifting cushion. The photo got hidden in my phone and popped up just this morning. It's one of the free patterns gifted to you on the Tilda's world website. There are so many to choose from, you will have to have a scroll through the catalogue. It's called Kimono Girl and is a PDF

I had a Sandwich Saturday, on a Friday again! Princess Jackie came, eager to get her sandwich done as it needs to be quilted and finished in good time to be gifted for Christmas . Jackie hasn't stuck to the original pattern though. She has used all the sizing but she's chosen to replace a lot of the blocks with more intricate blocks, because she wanted to and because she can!! It's still very obviously the Boho Heart though.

Merlot came to choose backing fabric ready for sandwiching this wonderful Monster quilt top. Doesn't it look great fun with her fabric choices. Most of which were already in Louise's home stash. I doubt this project even put a dent in it, ha!

Christabelle is ready for your trumpets to be polished. In the original pattern this quilt didn't have any sashing but, pleasing her very own self, Chris decided she wanted sashing and tiny little corner stones, so add them she did. It looks really good. With the addition of the Faux Piped Binding we can give a huge fanfare for Chris's fabulous and finished quilt toot toot toot 

Mary was so very pleased to have finished quilting her King Sized quilt, it was a monster! She was delighted to be able to start a new, much smaller project. She's never tackled applique before but, I think it is fair to say, she is smitten. From tracing the shapes and understanding about the order of things, gluing, placing the shapes, carefully pressing and to the blanket stitching, all of it, she loved it.

With such awful weather, I hope you didn't get too much damage in the storm, I had chance to do a bit of quilting on this, my Colourful Black quilt. I'm going to need a lint roller when it's finished. Can you see all the fluffy bits of wadding on the black fabric, like peach fuzz?

It's fewer than 6 weeks to go until sewing prevention season kicks into gear. 

I do still have a few places available on the Quiltmas Sewing Retreat, which I am ever so excited about. I have, I think, decided on one project to take, more on that later, plus I might change my mind, because I can!