Fun Stuff & Shop Diary

Workshops, Classroom and Sunday Sewing dates... 

All need to be booked and paid for in advance.

2025

Sunday Sewday  January 26th 9.30am to 3.30pm 

Checkley Community Centre, ST10 4NB

£20.00 payable on booking. £25.00 to pay on the day.

Refreshments are included. Please bring a mug

Sunday Sewday February 23rd. 9.30am to 3.30pm 

Checkley Community Centre, ST10 4NB

£20.00 payable on booking. £25.00 to pay on the day.

Refreshments are included. Please bring a mug

Monday 3rd March - Thursday 10th 
A Sewing Retreat, 3 Nights & 5 Days @ Hillscourt Hotel in the Lickey Hills

£485.00 to include single occupancy accommodation, all meals, with tea & coffee breaks.

Most importantly, you'll have unlimited access to the sewing room for the 5 days!

£50.00 will secure your place . This is a non refundable deposit.

Shop Closed Saturday 29th March

Shop Closed Tuesday 29th April

Shop Closed Friday 30th May

Sunday Sewday June 29th  9.30am to 3.30pm 

Checkley Community Centre, ST10 4NB

£20.00 payable on booking. £25.00 to pay on the day.

Refreshments are included. Please bring a mug

Shop Closed Friday 25th & Saturday 26th July

Pilgrimage to Festival Of Quilts Sunday 3rd August £36.00

Thursday 21st August - Sunday 24th

A Sewing Retreat, 3 Nights & 5 Days @ Hillscourt Hotel in the Lickey Hills

£485.00 to include single occupancy accommodation, all meals, with tea & coffee breaks.

Most importantly, you'll have unlimited access to the sewing room for the 5 days!

£50.00 will secure your place . This is a non refundable deposit.

Sunday Sewday September 28th  9.30am to 3.30pm 

Checkley Community Centre, ST10 4NB

£20.00 payable on booking. £25.00 to pay on the day.

Refreshments are included. Please bring a mug

Monday 6th October - Thursday 9th October
A Sewing Retreat @ Hawkstone Park, Shrewsbury. 3 Nights & 5 Days 

£485.00 to include single occupancy accommodation, all meals, with tea & coffee breaks.

Most importantly, you'll have unlimited access to the sewing room for the 5 days!

£70.00 will secure your place . This is a non refundable deposit.

Sunday Sewday October 26th  9.30am to 3.30pm 

Checkley Community Centre, ST10 4NB

£20.00 payable on booking. £25.00 to pay on the day.

Refreshments are included. Please bring a mug

Sunday Sewday November 30th  9.30am to 3.30pm 

Checkley Community Centre, ST10 4NB

£20.00 payable on booking. £25.00 to pay on the day.

Refreshments are included. Please bring a mug

Sewing Prevention Season 2025

A Merry Quilters' Alternative Christmas

Wednesday 24th December  to Saturday 27th (Possibly extending to Sunday 28th December)

A Sewing Retreat, 3 Nights & 5 Days @ Hawkstone Park, Shrewsbury.

£495.00 to include single occupancy accommodation. Fully catered, with A Christmas Day Lunch.

Most importantly, you'll have unlimited access to the sewing room for the 5 days!

£70.00 will secure your place . This is a non refundable deposit

Weekday Classes are follows:-

Tuesdays... 9.30 to 3.30 = £25

Thursdays... (9.30 to 12.15 = £15) or (1pm to 3.30pm = £15) or (9.30 to 3.30 = £25)

Fridays... Classroom activities vary according to what customers need.

Saturday Sewdays... 9.30am to 3.30pm £25.00

All classes require pre-booking. Please call or email for further information.07807530441

If you need to make a quilt sandwich and would like to use my tables, please call to book a suitable time. 

£10.00 per sandwich plus your wadding.

What is a Sandwich day?

It's a day when I push my tables together in the classroom so that you can pin (sandwich) the 3 layers of your quilt, no matter how large or small it is, without having to crawl around on the floor and without having to spoil your best dining table with pin and tape marks!

Book time slots @ £10.00 per sandwich between 10am - 2pm, booking is required.

You can also use the tables to lay out the blocks you've made to decide on settings, or to see how many more blocks you need or... even better... to help you choose fabrics!

Patchwork And Quilting for Beginners

Dabble in all aspects of patchwork and quilting...

Accurate cutting using a mat, ruler and rotary cutter.

Sewing an accurate quarter inch seam allowance with, hopefully, straight lines.

Good general piecing skills with top tips to help with seam matching.

Good pressing technique… a very important skill.

How to make and a small quilt sandwich.

How to quilt and, if there’s still time left we can turn your project into a lovely cushion with my fabulously easy zip inserting method. 

The workshop starts at 10am and we should be finished by 3pm... 

What a lovely way to spend a day... then if you find you are hooked... and that happens a lot... you can start thinking about what to make next.