Went to first quilt retreat
#11
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Pacific NW
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Well, usually we go to retreat centers, they are the most affordable. Sometimes the sleeping arrangements are like dorms, sometimes you get individual rooms, sometimes it's a couple (or several) bunkbeds in one large room. Meals are provided, so there is no cooking or cleaning. Bring your own snacks, set up your machine and sew all day! There is one large room where everyone sets up their machines, and we have cutting and pressing stations - we organize who's bringing the irons, boards, cutting mats, risers for the tables, etc. If we're near a LQS, sometimes we'll go on a field trip, especially if someone runs out of thread or something. You bring your machine, a project or two, and any support tools you might need. Wear your jammies all day and sew until you drop!
#12
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Indiana
Posts: 450
Oh dear! I can't wear pjs all day. I can't even do that when I am home alone and sick. My husband knows if I am still in my pjs at 1000 he better take me to the hospital because I am SICK!
I am going to the retreat at the Brookhaven Center with Stitchin' Heaven in March. I am very nerveous. I looked at pictures and thought, "I can't bring all of that! I am flying."
Any advise ya'al could give me would be greatly appreciated!
To the OP: I am so glad you had a good time and that you posted. Maybe I will learn something from this thread! Thank youk!
I am going to the retreat at the Brookhaven Center with Stitchin' Heaven in March. I am very nerveous. I looked at pictures and thought, "I can't bring all of that! I am flying."
Any advise ya'al could give me would be greatly appreciated!
To the OP: I am so glad you had a good time and that you posted. Maybe I will learn something from this thread! Thank youk!
#13
Oh dear! I can't wear pjs all day. I can't even do that when I am home alone and sick. My husband knows if I am still in my pjs at 1000 he better take me to the hospital because I am SICK!
I am going to the retreat at the Brookhaven Center with Stitchin' Heaven in March. I am very nerveous. I looked at pictures and thought, "I can't bring all of that! I am flying."
Any advise ya'al could give me would be greatly appreciated!
To the OP: I am so glad you had a good time and that you posted. Maybe I will learn something from this thread! Thank youk!
I am going to the retreat at the Brookhaven Center with Stitchin' Heaven in March. I am very nerveous. I looked at pictures and thought, "I can't bring all of that! I am flying."
Any advise ya'al could give me would be greatly appreciated!
To the OP: I am so glad you had a good time and that you posted. Maybe I will learn something from this thread! Thank youk!
#15
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 9,559
Yes, I would call or check the website to see what they tell you to bring to the retreat, and what is provided for you. Did they not give a list of what's provided at the retreat when you signed up? We self-host all our retreats, but I would think since Stitchin' Heaven is hosting yours, they would provide a lot of items (such as irons and cutting boards).
#17
Our guild has two retreats a year. It is at a local camp that rents out dormitory, large community room, kitchen, walking trails to a big lake with beautiful outdoor bar b que, fire pits and tables. Most people rent it for family vacations or weekend reunions. It's free to go if you are a guild member as we have frundraisers to pay the fee for three nights four days. We prepare our meals. I love it. Also the sewingroom is separate from the sleeping quarters and open all night and there are two separate sections for the dormitories, one for early to bed and one for late nighters. We love our retreat camp! I told DH when we move, a local retreat area (I can start a guild if not one), great internet service, close medical care, and a whole/natural food store are the must haves to where we move. It may be worth just staying where we are. LOL
#18
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: central indiana
Posts: 686
I have seen advertisements in English magazines for a variety of quilting and stitching retreats in England. I once went to one in Cornwall and it was perfect. Left husband in Basingstoke and enjoyed a week at the retreat. There were only two Americans at the BandB and it itself was outstanding. The owner could not quite understand why we enjoyed having a simple breakfast in her kitchen with all the pine and Aga rather than the dining room.
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