{"id":384,"date":"2024-08-14T12:04:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T12:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/?page_id=384"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:14:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Sewing Escapes offers you amazing sewing events and sewing experiences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We give you the perfect escape; where you can relax, elevate your sewing skills, and make sewing friends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">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! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">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&#8217;s where Sewing Escapes comes in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-style-default\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6c163697-2159-4b26-a372-59b20d6a7edd-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-524\" style=\"aspect-ratio:9\/16;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6c163697-2159-4b26-a372-59b20d6a7edd-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6c163697-2159-4b26-a372-59b20d6a7edd-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6c163697-2159-4b26-a372-59b20d6a7edd-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6c163697-2159-4b26-a372-59b20d6a7edd-1536x2048.png 1536w, https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6c163697-2159-4b26-a372-59b20d6a7edd-scaled.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:82%\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Hi, I&#8217;m Gill and I&#8217;m the person behind Sewing Escapes. You might recognise me from Instagram (@theonearmedsewist) or from The Great British Sewing Bee \ud83d\udc1d. Learning to 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our sewing events<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile has-medium-font-size\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 40%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sewing Retreats:<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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 &amp; Vicki Reid. The perfect way of combining a lovely mini break with sewing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons has-custom-font-size has-medium-font-size is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-e511ce0b wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-theme-palette-6-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/cc\/sewing-retreats-3535229?utm-campaign=social&amp;utm-content=creatorshare&amp;utm-medium=discovery&amp;utm-term=odclsxcollection&amp;utm-source=cp&amp;aff=escb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Find out about Sewing Retreats<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/cc\/sewing-retreats-3535229?utm-campaign=social&amp;utm-content=creatorshare&amp;utm-medium=discovery&amp;utm-term=odclsxcollection&amp;utm-source=cp&amp;aff=escb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"352\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/retreats-e1752654991172.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-507 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/retreats-e1752654991172.png 352w, https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/retreats-e1752654991172-300x263.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile has-medium-font-size\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 40%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sewing Day Escapes:<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Kind of like a mini retreat, a day of sociable sewing, surrounded by sewing inspiration. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-theme-palette-6-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/cc\/sewing-day-escapes-3536269?utm-campaign=social&amp;utm-content=creatorshare&amp;utm-medium=discovery&amp;utm-term=odclsxcollection&amp;utm-source=cp&amp;aff=escb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Find out about Sewing Day Escapes<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/SewingDayEscapes.eventbrite.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/day-escapes-e1752655021288.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-508 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/day-escapes-e1752655021288.png 321w, https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/day-escapes-e1752655021288-300x293.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-384","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewingescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}