Spend the weekend with Anita Birtles exploring different piecing and patchwork methods, making your own interpretation of a Modern Stars Quilt.
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Spend the weekend with Anita Birtles exploring different piecing and patchwork methods, making your own interpretation of a Modern Stars Quilt.
Date: 22 – 23 February 2025
Location: New Place Hotel, Shirrell Heath, Hampshire
Price: £440 Early Bird Special before 22 August 2024 / £470 after this
Star blocks are a fabulous way to explore different piecing and patchwork methods.
Anita will take you through some simple stars made with half square triangles, Wonky nine patch stars and improv star blocks.
You will learn simple accurate piecing, template and random piecing along with some basic improv star blocks.
All joined together in your own interpretation of a Modern Stars Quilt.
The weekend is ideal for beginners through to those with more experience.
A weekend retreat for £470 per person
Classes will take place in the hotel from 10 – 4 on Saturday and 10 – 4 on Sunday. AND you can work until late, late, late on Saturday evening if you want.
Lunch and refreshments will be served both days, including a buffet lunch and dinner on Saturday as well as breakfast and buffet lunch on Sunday.
What’s included:
- 2 full days of classes with Anita Birtles
- All patterns used in class
- 1 night accommodation at New Place Hotel
- Double room with single occupancy, so no sharing, unless you want to
- En-suite bathroom, tv, coffee and tea making facilities
- Lunch on Saturday and Sunday
- Dinner and Sunday breakfast served in the Manor House
- Coffee, tea and refreshments available all day in the Coffee Lounge
- WiFi is available throughout
- Free Parking
Add the FRIDAY night for £125
You can now add another day of buffet dinner, bed, and breakfast to your weekend. Arrive on Friday evening, enjoy a drink and dinner with your fellow retreat attendees. Then, wake up to a buffet breakfast, leaving you refreshed and ready to start sewing on Saturday morning.
Click on +FRIDAY for more information about the Friday/Saturday/Sunday package, or contact us at retreat@justhands-on.tv .
New Place Hotel, Hampshire
New Place Hotel will be our home for the weekend. Located in the Hampshire countryside and easily accessible from A3, M3, A31, M27, the hotel offers a perfect countryside setting, blending traditional and modern spaces over 32 acres of landscaped gardens. It is an ideal location for sewing retreats with modern teaching settings and accommodation, and a restaurant in the Manor House. There is a Fitness Centre that you are welcome to use during your stay. So you can use the gym or just relax by the pool and enjoy a quiet moment in the jacuzzi. The choice is yours! There is also free parking and free wifi. Indeed, New Place offers everything you need for the perfect weekend retreat.
Alternatively, click here to RESERVE YOUR PLACE
If you choose to RESERVE YOUR PLACE then you will need to complete and return a Booking Form (downloaded via link above) along with a deposit of £50. Balance due 26 weeks before the date of the retreat. See Booking Form for details.
Additional information If you pay in full by Credit Card, a £50 deposit is part of your payment and is non-refundable. If you pay in two stages (deposit & balance), your deposit of £50 is non-refundable.
We do our best to accommodate special requests, e.g. non-residential place, partners, Friday night accommodation, etc. Disabled access information is available upon request. Contact us at retreat@justhands-on.tv if you have any questions. Materials are not included in the cost of the retreat. If appropriate, a requirements list will be sent to you near to the date of your retreat. You will be required to bring your own sewing machine unless specifically noted otherwise. Click here for full Terms and Conditions (RETREAT AGREEMENT section).
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