I've had small weekend retreats with my sisters & nieces and now great nieces, but it's just never long enough for all our projects, food, visiting and games in the evening. We have a great time and someone always has a new project that we all want to try. It's been a couple of years, so we need to do this again soon.

Seven days next to a lake, while surrounded by quilty friends, sewing to my heart's content! Can't you just smell the ponderosa pines & as well as the hear the wind blowing thru them.

This book sounds so fun! The last several summers 6-9 friends all get together and we go to my sister’s lake house. We each sign up for meals so that responsibility is shared. Everyone’s free to sew, swim, sleep, or just read all day. It’s always balm for the soul to be with friends who share the same passion. Thanks for the opportunity to win!

A retreat is wonderful for the spirit!

On a lake in the mountains sounds ideal. It's on my bucket list.

My dream getaway is a week sewing in a mountain cabin with a few friends. Sewing when we want, enjoying each other's company, a porch or balcony to drink in the scenery, and good food and wine to share!

Never been on a quilting or sewing retreat, but would love to go on one with friends in a beautiful quiet setting like the ocean or mountains. Ideally all my packing would be magically done for me!

My perfect quilting retreat would be with my bestie (who is also named Diane)! Her husband made us Diane2 shirts that say, “Fussy cut that fat quarter!” We TALK about quilting all the time & send Pinterest pics back & forth...but when we visit each other (she’s in Vegas & I’m in Ohio), we never actually sew! Doesn’t matter where...but Hamilton, MO sure would be fun!

It is always fun to share time with like minded folks who “get” your rush of excitement when finding the perfect fabric to add to your stash. I would love to attend a retreat that is loosely structured. Plenty of time for sewing/quilting, relaxing, exploring a new area, and wonderful food - catered in or at a local non-chain restaurant. Making new friends, learning new skills, relaxing, exploring a new area, and enjoying wonderful food sounds like the perfect getaway to me!

The perfect sewing retreat would be in a lovely location, with wonderful quilting friends, plenty of room for everyone to be creative, all machines & tools working properly, delicious meals & snacks to keep the creative energy flowing, and lots of love & laughter as quilters create to their hearts content.

Five of my closest guilting friends and I hope to rent my friends cabin for a wonderful quilt retreat in the mountains of NW Arkansas this fall. The logistics of getting every one together the same week is mind boggling!!!

I'd love to learn cyanotype. That would be my perfect retreat

I have never been to a quilting retreat, but it is something that is on my bucket list! My idea of a perfect retreat location would be in a cottage in the mountains, with a lake view, in the fall, so that the trees' foliage would be awash with vibrant color. That would be my inspiration to create a special quilt with those reds and oranges and yellows! The retreat group would have old and new friends, and we would sew to our hearts' content, and there would be dinner cooking in a crockpot so we would not have to go out for dinner, giving us more time for sewing. Oh, and since I am dreaming about all this, there would certainly have to be a local quilt shop nearby in case anyone forgot to bring something along.
Thanks for the chance to win the book!

I haven't been to a quilting retreat but I have enjoyed sewing among friend by attending a class. A retreat sounds like so much more fun among friends--learning new things and sharing ideas. Thanks for a peak at the book, Carrie.

My perfect retreat would be to rent a huge house, beachfront in North Carolina with catered dinner every night.

I have never been to a quilt retreat; oh my, that would be so much fun! I have spent a day here and there sewing with friends, which is also great fun!
My dream retreat would involve a forest and a stream. Some fun projects and some friends, new or old.

My annual retreat reconnects me with my quilting sisters as we share our lives and joy of quilting.

In my mind's eye, a memorable retreat includes a safe place and plenty of space for all the things participants need. Comfortable rooms for sleeping and nourishing and delicious food and snacks. Friends and welcoming future friends are also a must.

I’ve never been on a retreat, mainly because they are not really ‘done’ here in Australia! However if my beautiful bee ladies who are scattered all across America were organising one, I would do everything in my power to be there. It is not only my dream but my goal to get there one day and visit as many of them as I can!

My favorite retreat is with my best quilting friends at the beach. I love to focus and get a project completed.

Oh please please! My group needs revitalization! We've all grown apart. Ya know, family, work, etc!!

Retreats with friends are the best. My friends and I do it several times a year. The distance doesn't seem to matter. Planes get you everywhere. We even rented a van so we could all travel together. The best part of any retreat to the friendship, laughs, and sharing our quilting experience with one another. We can hardly wait for the next one.

the perfect sewing get away would be free machines and material that you can put in a suit case at the end of a retreat to take home and create more quilts

I have never been on a creative arts retreat, so this really has me thinking... what would make it perfect enough for me to go? I am a city girl, so my perfect, dream sewing getaway would include lots of time to sew and learn new things, with maybe a little quilty shopping here and there in between, to explore with friends new and old and to refresh my stash - and my creative inspiration - with something new. :) Thanks for asking!

Never done a retreat like this. I’d like to do it somewhere cold (maybe because we are in a heat wave here!). There would be so much snow outside you would want to stay inside the whole day. And then when your eyes are too tired we would have a movie night, great food, a little wine and a good nights sleep.

My perfect sewing retreat weekend would be at a small cabin in the woods, with a creek running nearby....heaven!

My dream retreat would be a place by the beach with my sisters.

I can not decide where a retreat would be the best. A cruise, a cabin, a sewing retreat center they all have so much to look forward to but the best thing is in the smallest of details that would make it the best for me the smells, sights, warmth, and course my very best friends to enjoy and do it with me. All I know is that a retreat is on my bucket list and I hope to be able to do one someday.

I would love a retreat learning/improving a technique, shared with friends, with time to complete the entire project. There would be plenty of room to work, comfortable place to recharge at the end of the day, and delicious food to sustain us.