About
Sewing Escapes offers you amazing sewing events and sewing experiences. We give you the perfect escape; where you can relax, elevate your sewing skills, and make sewing friends. Sewing can be transformational, helping people to feel comfortable with their bodies and to love who they are. Sewing can also bring wonderful friendships and finding your people is so important! Surrounding yourself with people who understand you, and lift you up helps you be the best version of you. But sewing can be such a solitary hobby, that’s where Sewing Escapes comes in!
Hi, I’m Gill and I’m the person behind Sewing Escapes. You might recognise me from Instagram (@theonearmedsewist) or from The Great British Sewing Bee 🐝. Learning to sew sew has helped transform my life, I feel comfortable with my body and love who I am, and sewing has given me the most amazing friendships. I started Sewing Escapes to try and offer this to other people, creating sewing events to bring like minded people together and offering a place to learn, share and elevate sewing skills.
My amazing friend Vicki Reid helps out with some of the organising and planning that goes on behind the scenes, as well as the social media and co-hosting retreats. It might be Vicki who replies to your emails, messages or comments.
Our sewing events
Sewing Retreats:
Our popular retreats offer two days of sewing, where you escape and immerse yourself in a lovely setting, with a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, and with lots of support and mentoring. Hosted by Gill Thomas with a special guest host. The perfect way of combining a lovely mini break with sewing.
Sewing Day Escapes:
Kind of like a mini retreat, a day of sociable sewing with the option of lunch. Hosted by Gill Thomas these are lovely relaxed days, where you bring your own project. These are untutored events but Gill is there to guide and help you with your sewing projects.
