Become a member of our Gratitude & Grace Quilt group and join us for the 5th Annual retreat.
Spend the weekend with a group of kindred spirits celebrating our love of sewing in quilting form.
This is a soft fundraiser for The Sewing Labs to support our mission of using the legacy of sewing to teach skills for jobs in sewing and to build a community of sewist coming together to hold each other up.
This year we are offering an IN PERSON & an ON LINE event. Spaces for IN Person are limited due to social distancing.
Option #1 - IN PERSON ATTENDANCE retreat is a 3 day & 2 evening retreat. Full Price for in person retreat is $225.00.
* This includes 5 meals; Friday snacks, Saturday breakfast, lunch and dinner, Sunday breakfast and lunch.
* Pattern and all materials for Full/Queen quilt top - 84" x 91"
* Goodie bag
* In person trunk show with Shibori dying textile artist Ann Greenleaf
* Restorative Yoga with Diane Little
* Access to shop our pop-up quilt shop
* Access to all ON LINE videos and swap.
Option #2 - ON LINE Attendance - all access pass to Live events and on line videos held during the retreat & quilt kit. Full Price $ 150.
* Quilt Kit - includes pattern & materials to make quilt top - 84 x 91"
* Facebook Live of Friday night welcome
* Saturday & Sunday on line videos and Facebook live sewing during event.
* Facebook Live - trunk show with Shibori dying textile artist Ann Greenleaf
* Facebook Live - restorative Yoga with Diane Little
* Quilt pattern - mailed in advance of the retreat
* Goodie Bag
Option #3 - OnLINE event - Pattern ONLY . Price $50.00
* Facebook Live of Friday night welcome
* Saturday & Sunday on line videos and Facebook live sewing during event.
* Facebook Live - trunk show with Shibori dying textile artist Ann Greenleaf
* Facebook Live - restorative Yoga with Diane Little
* Quilt pattern - mailed in advance of the retreat
* Goodie Bag
Option# 4 - Sew/Come Along $25 - attend our retreat online - sew your own thing or just hang out to be part of the kindred spirits of this sewing community. This is a great way to share your support and catch up on what you already have. This is a great ticket to just show your support for the mission of The Sewing Labs
* Facebook Live of Friday night welcome
* Saturday & Sunday on line videos and Facebook live sewing during event.
* Facebook Live - trunk show with Shibori dying textile artist Ann Greenleaf
* Facebook Live - restorative Yoga with Diane Little
FREE ADD ON - participate in the block swap.
This year's quilt is a unique house block and you are invited to participate in a block swap. Sign up to exchange 10 house blocks with other quilters in our retreat. This is a fun way to build friendships with other quilters and will give you unique blocks to put into your own quilt. Information will be sent to you. You will be exchanging your completed blocks by mail or at the IN Person retreat.
Be sure to download the information sheet and hotel listing if needed.
IN PERSON spacing is limited so sign up quickly.
There are limited scholarships available - fill out link for request.
This year we will be bringing you The Online Gratitude & Grace Retreat! We have enjoyed hosting the last four year so much and we didn’t want not to be able to host this event again in 2020. This year it will be different, in addition to limited in person attendance you have the option to join us online. The positive side of this is that so many more of you will be able to join us for a weekend of sewing. The Gratitude & Grace retreat is a quilting and creative arts retreat. This year we are including special interviews with local creative artist. They will share they creative muse, processes and ways they are thriving while working from their studios.
Attend our retreat online - sew from home and know you are part of this sewing community. This is a great way to share your support and sew new or existing projects. This will be happening online and 100% of profits from tickets sold will be used for scholarships for students @ The Sewing Labs.
* ZOOM - Friday night welcome!
* Saturday & Sunday on line videos & Facebook live drop-ins.
* Facebook Live - trunk show w/ Shibori textile artist Ann Greenleaf
In person - Creative Artist Guest - Ann Greenleaf
We are excited to include with your ticket a LIVE Facebook event of a trunk show by Ann Greenleaf on Saturday July 25th @ 6pm. Ann will share her amazing creations using Shibori dyeing methods making beautiful textiles for garments and more. Ann has perfected the art of Shibori dyeing while teaching to audiences such as Hallmark. We know that you will enjoy these creations and want to take a workshop with her in the future @ The Sewing Labs.
The Schedule
We have gathered together interesting local creative artist to talk about their muse, their studio & process, their business of sewing and more. I am sure that you will recognize many of them!
Here is the list so far and we are adding more each day
Amy Barickman - founder/designer of Indygo Patterns and Vintage Notions.
Laura Treas - owner of Fashion Tech KC - specializing in sewing manufacturing to bring your designs/product to market.
Barbara Hadley - sharing her work in Art Journaling as a therapy.
Karen Neal - creative artist sharing her many mediums of inspiration from weaving, knitting, dyeing, quilting and more!
Robert Lackie - liscensed professional health psychotherapist and registered art therapist sharing the value of creative arts to thrive
Hadley Anne Clark - fashion artist & studio school showing how discarded textile can be revitized into new fashion
Cali Roberta Cox of Cherokee Punk Designs -
Karen Griffin as E. Lewis - sharing her stories of the inspirations of her quilting arts
and more !!!
