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✨ Luxury Art & Craft Retreats
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24/02/2026

🧵✨ The Sew Much Fun Sewing Retreat 2026 ✨🧵�📍 Buxted Park Hotel, Sussex�🗓 5–7 September 2026�🪡 2 full days of workshops and all you can eat. All meals included.�🏨 Option to stay the night before and/or after
Join us for a luxury two-day sewing retreat set in the stunning surroundings of Buxted Park Hotel — the perfect blend of creativity, learning and relaxation 💫
We’re delighted to welcome three sewing superstars:�✨ Mandy Shaw – folk-art quilting icon�✨ Jenny Jackson – FPP expert & Sewing Street favourite�✨ Lisa Lam – the legendary Queen of Bagmaking 👜
🌿 What’s included�✂️ Two days of expert-led workshops (all abilities welcome)�🧵 Three beautiful projects to take home�☕ Unlimited refreshments, cake & savouries�🪡 All materials provided (machines available if needed)�♿ Fully accessible, friendly and inclusive venue
💷 Prices�🏨 Residential (2 nights): £899�🚗 Non-residential: £549 (includes lunch each day, tuition and all materials)�➕ Optional extra night before or after: £160 B&B�💳 Payment plans available | £300 deposit secures your place
Expect creativity, confidence-boosting skills, lots of laughter, new friendships — and zero UFOs ✨
📩 Spaces are limited – please email- [email protected] for more information or any questions.

12/01/2026

The Luxury Sewing Retreat is back! ✨🧵

With

Full details here - https://artandcraftretreats.co.uk/event/luxury-sewing-retreat-2026/

After such an incredible time at this year’s event, we’re delighted to announce that the Luxury Sewing Retreat will return to Bailbrook House from 25th–27th September 2026! 💕

Enjoy a weekend of sewing, creativity, luxury, and relaxation — surrounded by like-minded sewing enthusiasts in the beautiful setting of Bailbrook House.

🏡 New for next year: You can now arrive the night before and make the most of the full experience — £899 for the full retreat, with the optional pre-retreat night (£180) including welcome drinks, a delicious buffet dinner, overnight stay, and breakfast, plus the perfect opportunity to mingle and chat before the retreat begins.

Places are already filling up fast, and there will once again be non-residential places available for those who prefer to attend each day.

📩 More details to follow soon, but don’t wait — register your interest now by emailing:
👉 [email protected]

We can’t wait to welcome you for another wonderful weekend of sewing, laughter, and luxury! ✂️🌸

22/12/2025

A Merry Creative Christmas from The Art and Craft Retreats 🎨🧵

As the year draws to a close, we want to say a huge thank you for your support. It’s been a truly fantastic year, and we’re so grateful to everyone who’s joined us, encouraged us, and shared in the creativity along the way 💛

✨ Exciting retreats coming soon, including the return of our much-loved:

🧵 Luxury Sewing Retreat
🎨 Luxury Artists Retreat

We’re also delighted to be welcoming some incredible creatives, including:

🌟 Debbie Bliss & Jacquie George
🌟 Anna Nikipirowicz
🌟 Lisa Lam, Jenny Jackson & Mandy Shaw (group retreat)

…and lots more to be announced for 2026 / 2027!

🎁 Don’t forget!
You can gift a special friend or family member a £50 retreat gift voucher for 2026 — and because it’s Christmas and we’re nice like that, we’ll give YOU £50 towards a retreat as well.
A true win-win 🙌🏻

💌 How to purchase:
Gift vouchers can be purchased via Bank Transfer or PayPal.
Please email [email protected] and we’ll send you all the details.

We can’t wait to welcome you back for another year filled with creativity, inspiration, and a little bit of luxury ✨

🎄 Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a wonderfully creative New Year 🎄

17/12/2025

🎁 The Gift That Gives Twice (and Removes the Guilt!) 🎁

This Christmas, give a special person £50 off any retreat from The Art and Craft Retreats Company in 2026 — beautifully tied up with a bow and ready to inspire creativity ✨

Perfect for anyone who deserves a little time to be creative, relax, and unwind.

And here’s the best bit…
When you purchase a gift voucher, you’ll also receive a £50 gift voucher for yourself.
Because treating yourself is only fair — and now officially guilt-free 😄

Please note - If you’re already booked on a 2026 retreat, you can buy a voucher for a loved one and apply your £50 voucher toward your own retreat deposit. It’s a fair way to share the love! 🙏

💌 To purchase your voucher you can pay by Bank Transfer or PayPal

💵 How to Purchase 💴 -

You can purchase either Bank Transfer or PayPal
Please email / [email protected] and we will send you the details.

💌 You will be sent your voucher(s) via email 💌

📌 Terms & Conditions:
• One £50 gift voucher per customer, regardless of the number of vouchers purchased
• Gift voucher must be used by 1st January 2027
• For full terms and conditions relating to retreats, please visit our website

🎄 Have a wonderful, creative Christmas from The Art and Craft Retreats Company 🎄

14/12/2025

Calling All Crafters & Artists! 🧵

The Art & Craft Retreats team is busy planning our 2026/27 retreat calendar, and we want your input! Which crafters and artists would you love to see at a retreat?

We’re thrilled to tease a very special Knitting Retreat featuring Debbie Bliss, one of the UK’s leading knitting designers, and the incredibly talented Jacqueline George. 🧶✨

📅 Date: Nov 26, 2026
📍 Location: Bailbrook House, Bath
More details coming next week—be among the first to hear and register your interest!

🎁 Give the gift of a retreat to someone special… or treat yourself (shhhh, we won’t tell!). Flexible payment plans available.

📧 Enquiries: [email protected]
🌐 Full list of 2026 retreats: artandcraftretreats.co.uk

Don’t miss out—let us know which amazing artists you want to see!

13/12/2025

🎄✨ Give the Gift of Crafting This Christmas! ✨🎁
(Or… go on, treat yourself — you absolutely deserve it. Future You in 2026 will thank you.)

This year, The Art & Craft Retreats Company is bringing you the chance to gift something truly special: the joy of making, creating, stitching, and escaping real life for a few glorious days.
Perfect for a loved one, a friend… or that “mystery person” who keeps adding things to your online basket. (👀 Yes, that’s you.)

🧵 Introducing: For the Love of Stitch – Luxury Craft Retreat
📍 The Grange Hotel, Grange-over-Sands
📅 4th-7th June 2026

Your retreat package includes:
✨ Three-night stay at the stunning Grange Hotel in the Lake District
✨ Dinner each evening in the hotel’s fabulous restaurant
✨ Lunch each day
✨ Unlimited refreshments (because creativity requires caffeine… lots of caffeine)
✨ Expert tuition from three incredible
tutors:

🪡 Anne Kelly
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🧵 Victoria Merness
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🪡 Ailish Henderson
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✨ All materials included for three beautiful stitching projects
✨ Time to relax, unwind, recharge, and enjoy the peaceful Lake District
✨ Full spa access — because crafting + spa = the ultimate self-care combo

💷 Retreat Pricing
• Full luxury package: £899
• Day guest package (no accommodation or dinner, but everything else included with lunch and unlimited refreshments both days ): £499
Both options require only a £300 deposit to secure your place.

For information on all the projects being taught at the retreat and to book for a loved one — or yourself (we don’t judge 😉), follow the link available to our website booking page - https://artandcraftretreats.co.uk/event/love-of-stitch/
or email [email protected] for more information.

Whether you’re gifting it to someone special or giving yourself the Christmas present you really want (because let’s be honest, socks aren’t cutting it anymore)… this retreat is the perfect 2026 escape.

Wishing you a wonderfully crafty Christmas and a very creative New Year! 🎄🧶✨

05/12/2025

✨ The Art and Craft Retreats Company brings you yet another retreat for 2026… they just keep on coming!

🌟 Luxury Quilting Retreat 2026 with Carolyn Forster
📅 5–8 October 2026 | 📍 The Spa Hotel, Tunbridge Wells
✨ Only 12 residential spaces available/4 non-residential

Join bestselling quilter, textile artist, and TV favourite Carolyn Forster for her first-ever hometown luxury retreat — a truly special creative escape set within 14 acres of peaceful gardens.

🧵 What’s Included

• 3 nights’ luxury B&B stay
• 2 full days of workshops with Carolyn
• All materials, kits & supplies included
• Exclusive new patterns & templates
• Mini project inspired by Tunbridge Wells Ware
• Bring-your-own-project support & guidance
• Lunch & refreshments daily
• Optional inspirational museum visit
• Fully accessible venue

✨ Project Highlights

• Hand-pieced retreat project
• Tunbridge Wells Ware–inspired mini make
• Quilt-as-you-go, hand & machine piecing, applique, embellishment & scrap techniques
• Personalised 1:1 guidance

💷 Price
£999 (Residential)
£599 (Day Delegate)
➡️ Bonus: 5% off when paid in full

📩 For details or payment options: [email protected] / deposit link in bio
🎟️ Spaces are very limited — secure your place for a luxurious, inspiring creative getaway!

04/12/2025

🎉 A Very Exciting Announcement from The Art and Craft Retreats Company! 🎉

We’ve got two incredible new retreats for 2026 coming soon… and we can’t wait to share the details!

🎨 Quilting Queen ‘Carolyn Forster’ will be running a special intimate retreat in her hometown Tunbridge Wells from 5th October 2026 for 3 nights.

🛍️ Plus, TV shopping stars Kerrie Padmore (Living in Loveliness) & Katharine Wright (Leicestershire Craft Centre) will be hosting a fabulous retreat in Cornwall from 12th-14th May 2026.

Full details will be released very soon… stay tuned for all the info and get ready to book your place!

Register your interest now to be the first to book - [email protected]

www.artandcraftretreats.co.uk

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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 2pm

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https://artandcraftretreats.co.uk/

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