Come and join us on our Patchwork and Quilting Sewing Retreats in North Wales
Eryri Retreat.
Monday March 16th until Thursday March 19th 2026
Unfortunately this retreat if fully booked but we will definitely be having more retreats. If you would like to be kept in touch with what we are doing email me info@brightquilting.co.uk and I will add you to my list and will let you know if we have any cancellations for this retreat and then let you know when we have details of our future retreats
Just Launching!!!!
Workshop based Retreat
I am so pleased to tell you that I am collaborating with Diane Warburton from Stitchscape again to bring you our third Patchwork and Quilting Retreat.
Blooming Mandela
There will be no cooking, cleaning or interruptions for 3 days.
If you like the sound of this then now is the time to start planning
The venue is in Llangollen North Wales
We are so please to say that Helen Creasey has agreed to come to North Wales all the way from South of London to spend 2 days teaching with you all. We are so excited to be able to offer this to you.
Helen Creasey is an award-winning quilt designer. (And Sew I …) Quilting for her started as a therapeutic hobby after becoming a mother in 2018, but rapidly evolved into a passion for inspiring and sharing her work with others through social media.
Helen’s work is graphic, modern and bold. She uses vibrant colours, black and white as well as gradients to create interest and her body of work is both pictorial and pattern-based. She favours Foundation Paper Piecing (FPP), loving the complex look and detail possible and a natural adaptation of her architectural training.
Helen will be teaching us to make her “Blooming Mandala” Quilt Pattern which won the “Excellence in Machine Quilting Overlay Award” as well as 3rd place in the Contemporary category, all at The Festival of Quilts, Birmingham 2024.
Over the course of two days, she will teach us how to:
· Work with cutting templates and transfer reference marks,
· Sew compound radius curves,
· Sew reversing curves with partial seams,
· FPP,
· Accurate point matching
· And sewing inset circles
With the aim to complete at least 1 octant of the Blooming Mandala Quilt, or a mini Mandala (out to the pink/red/orange petals) and provide you with the skill and confidence to complete this stunning quilt alone. Digital copy of the pattern included.
Click the Link below to be directed to the booking page where all the details are and you can review before deciding to join us. To join us please make the booking with a £100 Booking fee (non-refundable) as soon as possible as places are limited to 20. You will be invoiced in August/September for the remaining amount. If you choose to send further payments before that then please contact me, Carie Mason.
Click this link for her YouTube video of a previous retreat where she taught this pattern http://Blooming Mandala Quilt Summer School!
