Retreat Weekend and other news

We've had great response for our Retreats and the first weekend, which is a Manipulated Fabric workshop is fully booked. If you wish to do this workshop and missed out this time, we are repeating it on 11th - 13th Jan 2013. All bookings are made through Degembris Farm, but Carolyn and myself are always happy to answer any questions about the Retreat Weekends.
Hannah and Andy have worked hard and made a wonderful job of the brochure (which we can post if you'd like one) and put an advert in Patchwork and Quilting Magazine, so we hope to have patchworkers from far and wide visiting this beautiful part of the world.
They also have a dedicated web page as do we, so pop over and take a look for all the details of what's on in the future.

We have an extra workshop by request at FraddonVillage Hall on August 21st, this will be our Free Machine and Painting workshop. If you're wanted to try free machine quilting and were too nervous to have a go, or you would like to try new patterns, then this workshop will inspire you to create a variety of designs and start you on the road to mastering this liberating technique, with the added bonus of using paint to enhance your patterns.

We have a few places left on Tuesday 31st July at Fraddon Village Hall, on our Free Handcut workshop. This is another liberating method which we love to work with. We will show you how to free cut and sew beautiful curved seams that lie flat and give your work that wow factor.
You can find photo's of the workshops and all the deatils for booking on our web site or give one of us a call.

This blog seems to have been a serious affair but tomorrow Carolyn and I are having a 'turtle' day, so no doubt I will have something else to show you after that.

I have also been working on my yellow's for the next four journal quilts, I must admit it's taken me a while to find a theme but I've nearly finished the first two, and I know I'm very late. My inspiration has been some photo's I took on holiday so I'll put some sketch book work and the pieces up soon.

Thanks for reading

Sue

Exciting news..............

Hi everyone,

What's all the excitement you may ask, well, we've been invited to do four Creative Craft Retreat Weekends at Degembris Manor Farm, nr. Newquay, Cornwall.
This non-working farm, once arable, has been beautifully converted into holiday cottages and B & B.

Peaceful surroundings, country walks, fed, watered and all day sewing, heaven...........

Our dates are:-
16th - 18th November 2012
7th   - 9th   December 2012
11th - 13th January     2013
8th   - 10th February   2013
All the details will be on our web site soon.

If you'd like to find out more about Degembris Manor Farm there's also a link on our web site.

Hope you're having a great weekend.

Sue

Touch down........

Since getting back from our holiday, which was wonderful and very hot, (sorry did try to bring some sunshine back), I've hit the ground running, workshop the next day, group meeting, show & tell and youngest daughter and boyfriend arriving with a white van full of their stuff and two hamsters. We went to their lovely degree show before we left, they've finished uni now and I'm thrilled they are moving back to Cornwall, staying with us for a while and then starting their own adventure.

I have found some time to do a little sewing, we've always had great interest in our manipulated strip cushion, so I've finished a wall hanging for our Manipulated Fabric workshop at Fraddon on 4th October.

You can find all the details on our website.

Be back soon and thanks for reading.

Sue

Home Alone!

Working on another block for the Sample Quilt

While Sue has been away on holiday, I have been trying to catch up with a few outstanding bits..........I had great confidence that I would get my long list done!!

Sue is now back and my list is not much shorter!

I have though, made a start on the next 2 months in the Contemporary Quilters challenge.  I had thought that I would do a 'whole cloth' piece, but that has changed. They are not quite finished yet, so no photo, but they are coming along okay and I am reasonably happy.  The theme is Yellow for the next 4 months, which as my son has recently come home after 7 months away is reflecting my mood. Bright & Cheerful.

Unlike the weather at the moment which made today's workshop a little challenging, but even so, some lovely pieces of fabric were produced and we all had a good time.

Speak again soon

Carolyn

'turtle' (admin) day

Why does admin always take longer than you think. We had plans on our 'turtle' day to sew more sample blocks, but the day was swallowed up before we knew it. Anyway, we achieved a lot so it turned out to be a productive day after all.

We mentioned in a previous blog that we would open our Begin Patchwork course to day students, so as promised we have set out a programme list below......

Sept 4th:     Introduction - Rail Fence & Quilt-As-You-Go Method.
Sept 25th:   Prairie Queen & Rocky Mountain.
Oct 16th:    Log Cabin & Couthouse Steps.
Nov 13th:   Building Blocks & Complete Outstanding Blocks.
Nov 27th:   Joining Blocks & Attaching borders.
Dec 4th:     Attaching Binding & Label.

As you can see there are some old favorites but also some very nice new ones to try. If you fancy doing all or some of the course just let us know in the usual way, on an email or by phone, which can all be found on our web site.

Carolyn has put some new workshop photo's on our flickr site and her daughter has updated our web site, so if you haven't had a look lately pop over and check it out.

Now, I haven't finished any projects lately, so I thought I'd show you a couple of cushions you may not have seen, which I made a while ago for my eldest daughter.

The first one she requested was to be made in white with pintucks, prairie points and cathedral windows. At the time she was doing a BA Fine Art degree and looking at minimalist 3 dimensional work, number sequences, squares and grids. 

                                                        Nine Block Grid

The second cushion was to be made in calico with printed triangles, various stitches and couching, using wool and embriodery threads, beads and tassels.

                                                          Aztec Cushion

Both cushions were pleasure to design and make, and very much loved by the recipient.

Speak soon, Sue

                                                                

7am alarm call

Look who came to visit today..............

Not a brilliant photo but she was very nervous of me, they stayed for about 3 hours, he tried to leave a few times but she wasn't ready, so he had to wait. Number 1 man in my life commented he had to wait for his breakfast, whoops.

We'd love to hear from you, just leave a comment.

Sue

Sun Printing Workshop

Sun Printing - Leaves

 To celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, we would like to offer a 10% discount on our Sun Printing Workshop taking place on Tuesday 26 June 2012, from 10:00am to 4:00pm at Fraddon Village Hall, just off the A30.

Sun Prnting - Scrunch

This is a fun workshop where you will create colourful fabric, using a selection of leaves, flowers, small found objects and cut templates.

We have samples of our Sun Printing Workshop on our website at
www.beyondpatchwork.co.uk

Sun Printng & Markel

As with all our workshops we supply the art materials required for the day, which in this case are the Sun Dyes, plus tea, coffee and biscuits throughout the day.

Fraddon Village Hall is a lovely workspace with ample parking and excellent disabled facilities.









If you would like to book, please email us on beyondpatchwork@btinternet.com


We would love to see you there.



Carolyn & Sue