Totally Crewel Work, Design Intensive: June 2025
Unleash your creativity with this unique design-focused experience
From €6.669,95
Deposit £500
With the Following Tutors
Retreat Overview
This 8 day residential retreat takes place a stone's throw from our home town of Appleby-in-Westmorland.
During our week together, you will have a chance to unleash your creativity with this unique design course. Guided by Phillipa Turnbull and emboldened by studying Phillipa’s original crewel work collection and her vast collection of resource drawings, images and artefacts, students will be empowered to decide their own style, their own choice of colours, stitches, and preferred scale. Assisted by our team and using our professional equipment, students will create their own design and leave with their very own original kit.
The Details
Full Itinerary
Full Itinerary
October 6-12, 2024
Day 1 - ARRIVAL
The retreat starts at 5.00pm at the Flakebridge Estate.
Day 2 - TUITION
Morning tuition with Phillipa. Evening lecture.
Day 3 - TUITION
Morning tuition with Phillipa. Evening lecture.
Day 4 - EXCURSION
Study day at the Muncaster Castle.
Day 5 - TUITION
Morning tuition with Harriet
Day 6 - TUITION
Morning tuition with Harriet. Evening lecture.
Day 7 - TUITION
Morning tuition with Harriet. Evening lecture.
Day 8 - DEPARTURE
Retreat ends at at 9am. Onward travel included to local train stations and to Manchester Airport on request.
Tuition
Tuition
Crewel Work will be the topic of the week throughout your workshops, lectures, and excursions. The first part of the week will be focused on creating your design and selecting your colours. You will begin by studying crewel work designs from a bank of resources provided by Phillipa, you will then build your design, adapting and arranging your preferred motifs, which you will then draw out using a lightbox. Our in-house illustrator Georgie will perfect the outline and your design will then be printed there and then ready for stitching.
The second part of the retreat will focus on selection and practice of stitch techniques with Harriet. You will select your own techniques from resources provided and then be guided in how to complete these within the motifs in your design.
What's Included
What's Included
Accommodation & Food
Full board accommodation.
Tuition & Kits
5 full days of tuition, all materials needed to complete your design, loan of a frame, magnifying light and other equipment, refreshments during class, and a goody bag.
Excursions & Lectures
Excursion to Muncaster Castle, evening lectures, informal stitching sessions, as well as optional walks and further cultural visits.
Travel
Travel as per the programme. Transfers from local train stations are included. Transfers from and to Manchester Airport and local transport links are available in request.
Arrival & Departure
Arrival & Departure
Arrival
The retreat will officially begin at 5pm on Wednesday 18th June 2025 at the the Flakebridge Estate Low Barn, Flakebridge, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria, CA16 6JZ
Departure
The retreat will officially end at 9am on Wednesday 25th June 2025.
Additional Nights
For those wishing to arrive a day or two early, you are welcome to book additional nights in local hotels in Apply such as the Tufton Arms Hotel or Appleby Manor Hotel.
Free parking is available on site. The nearest mainline train station is Penrith. The nearest international airport is Manchester.
Unleash your creativity
Set on the edge the Beautiful Lake District
Flakebridge Estate
Nestled in the rolling hills and picturesque countryside of Cumbria this purpose built retreat space is set on a stunning private estate. This modern day shooting lodge is a blend of rustic charm and contemporary facilities making it the ideal secluded escape.
What's included
Meet your tutors
Phillipa Turnbull
Harriet Roberts
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