We have events and quilty retreats during the year as we LOVE sewing with you! Stay tuned to our newsletter (you can sign up at the bottom of any page on our website) as well as social media accounts for information on the next retreat.
Our next retreat is going to be June 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th for the Penola Patchwork Party! Yes a fun-filled LONG weekend of sewing!
Read more about the our inaugural retreat in June 2024, the Penola Patchwork Party.
#penolapatchworkparty
We are so excited to announce we are going back to Penola in South Australia for our second Penola Patchwork Party on the weekend of 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th June 2025. Three and a half days of non stop sewing!
You are invited to join us for a fun weekend of sewing, quilting, stitching as well as chatting, meeting new quilty friends, eating delicious food, laughing and having lots of fun….. all in the historic country town of Penola in the South East of South Australia.
Our Penola Patchwork Party will be for anyone who loves sewing and / or quilting! You are welcome to bring your sewing machine to power through any project you like. Or you can bring your hand stitching – we will have tables set up for both.
Please select the relevant option when you book and pay to let us know which you will be bringing to the retreat so that we can plan the table layout to best suit what you are wanting to do!
And yes, there will be laughing and fun!
Our new venue for 2025 is the Penola Football Clubrooms – so much amazing space for all our sewing, pressing, basting, eating and chatting needs!
There is a large ramp so we can get all our gear up easily, and @thefabrichusband will be on hand as you arrive on Friday afternoon to help you.
The clubrooms overlook the football oval and faces east so we will get lots of gorgeous light. There is also good lighting, heating and cooling.
There will be morning, afternoon tea and lunch on both Saturday, Sunday and Monday (and afternoon tea on Friday). Catering will be from one of the cafes in town.
There is plenty of room for us to eat away from our sewing machines and precious fabric, giving us a chance to get social with people perhaps not sewing near you.
There will be a Said With Love pop up shop, so feel free to put your orders in before the weekend and I can hand deliver them to you! There will also be a pop up shop from another local Limestone Coast shop which I will announce soon.
If you want to nick out and do a spot of shopping along the main street, there are some interesting shops from homewares and antiques, to clothes and winery cellar doors!
And of course there are all the wineries out on the Coonawarra Terra Rossa strip…. I am sure if you are a wine buff you will definitely want to do a tasting at one of them!
Your evening meals and weekend accommodation are not included in the Penola Patchwork Party price as there are so many different options we couldn’t decide!
For dinner one night I would suggest it is a fabulous opportunity for you to dine out at one of South Australia’s top regional restaurants, Pipers!
There is also the wonderful Royal Oak Hotel which has some delicious meals or the more laid back Prince of Wales pub. I would suggest making a booking for whichever you choose to ensure you get a seat, weekends are very popular in the Coonawarra wine region!
Last year we had a group meal one evening at the Royal Oak and if people would like to do that again, we certainly can!
As well there is as a wide range of accommodation available in Penola and surrounds, again, I would suggest booking as soon as you decide you want to come to the Penola Patchwork Party to ensure you get the place you want to stay at. Alexander Cameron motel, Must, the caravan park, Cobb & Co Cottages (right next door to where we are sewing!), the Royal Oak plus lots of small B&B places are all unique and fun.
There are some resources to help you find suitable accommodation
https://penolacoonawarra.com/stay-in-penola-coonawarra/#!directory/map
And some specific places that are lovely that I have stayed in personally and can recommend.
https://www.cobbnco.com.au/bed-and-breakfast.php
https://www.mustatcoonawarra.com.au/
https://www.alexandercameronsuites.com.au
And here is a guide that the local council has put out that could also assist
We are going to get started after lunch on the Friday, so we can get 3 and a half days of sewing in!
So from 1pm on Friday you can come to the Football Club and get settled in and start sewing!
Then Saturday, Sunday and Monday we will be sewing from 9am until 5pm.
There will be a small goody bag on arrival with some gorgeous things for you!
We will be doing a show and tell during the weekend, so if you have a special quilt or make that you want to share with us (or more than one!) please bring it along!
The three and a half days including morning and afternoon teas, all day coffee and tea as well as delicious lunches is $XXX. This includes show and tell plus a small goody bag and all the laughter and fabric talk you can handle!
You can pay up front when you book, or you can make use of our Layby / Deposit option where you can pay off over 4 fortnights or 8 fortnights. As long as it is paid off before the 1st June 2025!
© 2025 Said With Love. ®
