We have a growing team of tutors, carefully chosen for their own creative talent and ability. Each tutor has extensive sewing experience and will guide you, patiently, through a wide range of projects. You will be encouraged to develop your own “style”, to choose your own colour and fabrics and to produce your own original work.

One Day Workshops

One day workshops are frequently held on Saturdays. These will be focused on a particular skill, design or project.
Please check through to see if there is anything that appeals to you and get in touch by email or telephone to let us know if you’d like to come.


Regular Workshops

Join one of our weekly on-going classes and extend and develop your sewing skills. Our teachers have extensive sewing experience and will guide you through a wide range of projects. In any class – you will be encouraged to use your own colour schemes to produce your own individual work. Please view our schedule below, for upcoming workshops and classes.


Sit and Sew

Come along to one of our sit and sew groups. There is no formal teaching but they are friendly, sociable and a great source of help.

Please read our workshop policy


Layering Up

Do you need help layering up a quilt? If so, we can help. Call the shop to book an appointment. £20.

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September 2024

Mary’s Medallion Quilt

September 17 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

A monthly class for the intermediate quilter. If you have done some patchwork and you have experience of both hand sewing and machine sewing - this may be the course for you. Mary Turner has a wealth of quilting experience and will guide you through all the processes involved in making this beautiful quilt. The class will meet once each month on the 3rd Tuesday beginning... Tuesday 17th September 2024 9.30am - 12.30 pm £15/session.

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Stress-Free Sampler Quilt

September 20 @ 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 1:30 pm on Friday, repeating until December 20, 2024

Begin your Patchwork and Quilting here and you'll have a quilt in time for Christmas. A weekly class running through the autumn term, beginning Friday 20th September. 1.30pm - 4pm £15/session Jayne and Louise will gently teach you one block per week. Bring along your sewing machine and you will learn to create a sampler quilt using lots of different techniques from start to finish. Pop in or phone to reserve a place 0191 4100868

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“Inky Abstractions”

September 28 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

A Creative Textile Workshop with Deb Cooper Saturday 28th September 2024 10am - 4pm £50 Spend the morning mark making on fabric using ink and marking tools. No drawing skill is required just be prepared to play! Later in the day, using your personally created fabric, you will further explore mark making using traditional embroidery stitches and other embellishments. The first part may get messy so please bring an apron and some gloves. You will also need to bring a…

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October 2024

Needleturn Hand Appliqué

October 23 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

A short course for beginners. Jayne Kirkwood will teach this incredibly useful skill over three afternoons. You will create a small piece of work that will involve sewing a number of different shapes. 3 Wednesday afternoons; 1.30pm - 3.30pm 23rd October 2024 6th November 2024 20th November 2024 £45

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Zoe’s Taster Day

October 26 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

A workshop for anyone new to patchwork. (you must have a sewing machine and be able to  use it) Saturday 26th October 2024 10am - 4pm £60 to include all fabrics Make a cushion using the pattern "Disappearing 9-Patch" with an envelope back. You will have time to select your own fabrics from our vast stock. During the day you will be taught and supported through the skills of patchwork, quilting and construction of a cushion. This would be a…

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December 2024

Baltimore

December 21 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Each month Eileen will supply you with a pattern for a block that you will begin

(with her guidance) and then complete at home.

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If you’d like to enquire about one of our workshops or classes or if you just want more information about our shop, please contact us.