Retreat Weekend for 8 to 20 Participants
Also known as “No Teacher Retreats”
This modestly priced weekend package is designed to bring your Group to the Strong House Inn and experience an extraordinary weekend of quilting or crafting.
Our spacious Quilt Room offers cutting stations, ironing stations, excellent natural lighting and night lighting for those all-night sewing and crafting marathons.
- 2 nights lodging, 2 breakfasts, 1 lunch, afternoon tea and your activity room set-up. Cost: $250pdo/$325so
- Each additional night would be $115 per person, double occupancy and $150 for Single Occupancy.
- Dinner can be added for $40.00 per person, plus tax.
No Frills Quilt/Craft Retreat for Less than 8 Participants
- 2 nights lodging, 2 breakfasts, sewing room set-up and usage - $230 per person based on double occupancy; $305 single occupancy.
- Each additional night would be $115 per person, double occupancy and $150 for Single occupancy.
- Additional Meals cannot be added to this package.
Details for Either Package
$150 deposit per person is required to guarantee your space. Room deposits are fully refundable if we receive cancellation notice up to fourteen days prior to your scheduled arrival minus a $25.00 administrative fee. Cancelled reservations with less than 14 days notification will result in the loss of your advance deposit. Guests arriving later or departing earlier than their confirmed dates will be responsible for all of the original room nights booked. We cannot make exceptions for weather or personal emergencies. This package cannot be combined with any other packages.
Quilters In Action
| 2012-2013 Upcoming Events - Quilting Class Schedule | ||
June 27-29 - 2012 |
No Frills Retreat | Open - No Teacher |
October 19-21, 2012 |
Friendship Quilt | Kay Berquist |
| October 25-28, 2012 | Quilting Retreat | Open - No Teacher |
| November 2-4, 2012 | Quilting Retreat | Open - No Teacher |
January 18-21, 2013 |
Quilting Retreat | SOLD OUT |
January 25-27, 2013 |
Total Eclipse, Desert Sky or Sunflower Illusions | Jackie Kunkel (Judy Niemyer's paper Piecing techniques) |
February 1-3, 2013 |
Quilting Retreat | SOLD OUT |
February 8-13, 2013 |
Finishing School | SOLD OUT |
| February 13-15, 15-17, 2013 | Two No Frills Retreats - Back to Back | Open - No Teacher |
| February 20-24, 2013 | Quilting Retreat -A Different Kind of Quilter's Retreat | Open - No Teacher; Guest speaker: Alison Bolt |
| March 1-3, 2013 | LeMoyne Start (using Deb Tucker ruler) | Jackie Kunkel |
March 8-10, 2013 |
Crazy Quilting and Embellishing | Jane Masenas |
March 15-17, 2013 |
Star Fire | Kay Berquist |
| April 5-7, 2013 | Treasure Boxes | Kay Berquist |
| April 12-14, 2013 | Quilting Retreat | Open - No Teacher |
| May 4-6, 2013 | come PLAY with me | Dianne Hire |
Upcoming Course Descriptions
Retreat Includes: 2 nights lodging, 2 breakfasts and your sewing room set-up.
This traditional quilt will be a wonderful reminder of the friends at your SHI quilting weekend. We will make this scrappy quilt mostly from our stash, perhaps sharing some of your fabric with your friends. Learn to tighten up those corners in the quilt body, and also how to make the gentle curve of the vine in the borders, and machine applique of the flowers. Quilt is 55" X 55", but you can make it any size you need just by making more blocks.
Quilt Retreat Includes: 2 nights lodging, 1 dinner on the first evening, 2 breakfasts, 1 lunch, 1 afternoon tea and your sewing room set-up and quilt teacher fee.
This modestly priced No Teacher Retreat is especially designed to bring you to the Strong House Inn and experience an extraordinary weekend of quilting. Our Spacious Quilt Room offers cutting stations, ironing stations, excellent natural lighting for those all-night sewing marathons.
Retreat Includes: 3 nights lodging, 3 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 2 afternoon teas and your sewing room set-up.
This modestly priced No Teacher Retreat is especially designed to bring you to the Strong House Inn and experience an extraordinary weekend of quilting. Our Spacious Quilt Room offers cutting stations, ironing stations, excellent natural lighting for those all-night sewing marathons.
Retreat Includes: 2 nights lodging, 2 breakfasts, 1 lunch, 1 afternoon tea and your sewing room set-up.
This modestly priced No Teacher Retreat is especially designed to bring you to the Strong House Inn and experience an extraordinary weekend of quilting. Our Spacious Quilt Room offers cutting stations, ironing stations, excellent natural lighting for those all-night sewing marathons.
Retreat Includes: 3 nights lodging, 3 breafasts, 2 lunches, 2 afternoon teas and your sewing room set-up.
"Total Eclipse, Desert Sky or Sunflower Illusions"
(Judy Niemyer's paper piecing techniques)
This class will focus on foundation paper piecing. The techniques and patterns that are taught are all from Judy Niemyer Designs. You will be able to choose from one of the three designs to create in class and in the end you will have Perfect Spikes and New York Beauties. The techniques you will use will emphasize quick cutting, chain piecing and working with curves! All will be easier! This class is for an advanced beginner to intermediate quilter. You will need a basic knowledge of piecing, general sewing and cutting techniques to begin this class. If you have never pieced paper before, now is your time to give it a try. If you have paper pieced, but have never tried this technique, you will want to give it a go... It is addictive!
This modestly priced No Teacher Retreat is especially designed to bring you to the Strong House Inn and experience an extraordinary weekend of quilting. Our Spacious Quilt Room offers cutting stations, ironing stations, excellent natural lighting for those all-night sewing marathons.
Retreat Includes: 2 nights lodging, 2 breafasts, 1 lunch, 1 afternoon tea and your sewing room set-up.
This modestly priced No Teacher Retreat is especially designed to bring you to the Strong House Inn and experience an extraordinary weekend of quilting. Our Spacious Quilt Room offers cutting stations, ironing stations, excellent natural lighting for those all-night sewing marathons.
Retreat Includes: 5 nights lodging, 5 breafasts, 4 lunches, 4 afternoon teas and your sewing room set-up.
"Two No Frills retreats - Back to Back"
Signup for one or signup for both!
Retreat Includes: 2 night lodging, 2 breakfast and sewing room set-up.
"A Different Kind of Quilting Retreat"
Forget the bunk beds and cafeteria food! Join Quilters Newsletter columnist Alison Bolt for five days of pampering and stitching in peace and luxury with some of your new best friends! No teacher, no project, no guilt; just laugh, shop, and quilt til you wilt!
Plan your own time and choose your activities! Have a massage, mani or pedi on site! Friday, follow Alison on an afternoon shop-hop, with a dinner stop at The Bearded Frog in Shelburne, and dessert back at the inn (before the quiltathon recommences). Saturday, have your Bernina serviced and your scissors sharpened while you wait. That night, sip a glass of wine an relax while Alison regales you with her "Confessions of a Type A Quilter" talk. Savor your options and decide whether to stitch, socialize, nap or take a drive to the homemade chocolate shop! Life can be good, very good!
Quilt Retreat Includes: 4 nights lodging, 4 breakfasts, 3 lunches, 2 afternoon teas and your sewing room set-up.
"LeMoyne Star (using Deb Tucker ruler)"
If you have never tried a LeMoyne Star before because you were afraid of making the odd shapes that go into making this block, then this is the class for you! This quilt is completely strip pieced! Using Deb Tucker's newest ruler you will learn how to piece this complex block simply by using strips of fabric. Perfect points and no bias edges make this a must-have quilt top. A spectacular result without all the sweat! This course is for an Advanced Beginner to Intermediate quilter. You will need a basic knowledge of piecing, general sewing and cutting techniques to begin this class. Come and learn this fabulous technique with this innovative ruler with me!
"Crazy Quilting and Embellishing"
Bring a project you are working on to get ideas about completing. If you have questions about embroidery, beading, embellishing or silk ribbon embroidery, this will be the weekend to get them answered. Jane shares a variety of her quilts for inspiration and will give demonstrations throughout the weekend. You do not need to be a quilter to enjoy this special retreat. The embellishing ideas can be used on clothing, purses, pictures and other projects.
Quilt Retreat includes: 2 nights lodging, 1 dinner on the first evening, 2 breakfasts, 1 lunch and 1 afternoon tea, sewing room set-up and quilt teacher fee.
This 54" X 64" can ideally showcase a favorite fabric. The star colors are taken from the beautiful butterfly fabric that is the center of each triangle block. The blocks are made by sewing partial seams, and there are no inset seams in the quilt. Stars in the top and bottom border are easy to make but add a great deal to the borders. Join us for a great weekend making this unusual triangle-block quilt.
Quilt Retreat Includes: 2 nights lodging, 1 dinner on the first evening, 2 breakfasts, 1 lunch, 1 afternoon tea and your sewing room set-up and quilt teacher fee.
Have you tried a Stack-N-Whack quilt yet? Every block is different and part of the fun of making a Stack-N-Whack is finding out what each block will look like. This 3-D quilt is one of the easier Stack-N-Whack quilts, but you will learn the technique and be able to make any of them after taking this class. This quilt is 46" X 53".
Quilt Retreat Includes: 2 nights lodging, 1 dinner on the first evening, 2 breakfasts, 1 lunch, 1 afternoon tea and your sewing room set-up and quilt teacher fee.
This modestly priced No Teacher Retreat is especially designed to bring you to the Strong House Inn and experience an extraordinary weekend of quilting. Our Spacious Quilt Room offers cutting stations, ironing stations, excellent natural lighting for those all-night sewing marathons.
Retreat Includes: 2 nights lodging, 2 breakfasts, 1 lunch, 1 afternoon tea and your sewing room set-up.
Need to lighten up? Not having any quilting fun? Tired of prissy little piecing? Then this workshop is for you. Improvisational and intuitive, we'll play liberating games at your sewing machine, allow creative juices to flow. We'll slice and dice fabrics, trade slivers of blocks, hunt for the bright colors just begging for a place to land in a quilt. Return home with a few oxymoron blocks, in random order. This promises to be a block buster weekend... so join Dianne and have some quilting fun like you never had before. Good for the intermediate and beyond.
*All-inclusive Weekends include:
2 nights lodging, 2 breakfast, 1 lunch, 2 dinners, afternoon tea and your sewing room set-up and quilt teacher.
Gather your friends to spend a exciting and pampering weekend at the Strong House Inn, call 802-877-3337.
Our Quilting Instructors
Kay Berquist
Kay has been involved in needlework most of her life, but once she found quilting, she was hooked. It is a passion! For 15 years, she has been a professional longarm quilter. She was involved as a buyer and teacher at a local quilt shop for 5 years, and continues to teach today. She is a patient teacher and enjoys helping all quilters improve their skills. Most recently, she and daughter Allison began designing bed quilts, and then smaller projects. Their design "Christmas Cabin" was published in "Quilt" Magazine in August 2009. All their designs can be seen at www.VermontQuiltDesign.com
Alison Bolt
Alison's "Right Off the Bolt" humor column has been featured in Quilters Newsletter since 2007. Her observations on the quirky side of quilting (and quilters) have also appeared in Keepsake Quilting's catalogs and the Quilting Quarterly. Last year she took her act on the road and began spinning her stories for area guilds. For material, Alison draws heavily on her past experiences such as:
holding offices on the National Quilt Association and Vermont Quilt Festival boards, serving as the Festival's show director, and heading an active, 300-member guild in MD. Alison, a devoted paper-piecer, has been quilting since 1998, but promises she is an average quilter with the same neuroses as everybody else!
Dianne Hire
Dianne is is known primarily as a quiltmaker and lecturer who speaks the language of vibrant color as she uses fabric to create painterly collages. Her innovative designs have been exhibited and awarded all over the USA at such venues as AQS (Paducah, KY), Dallas Quilt Show, East Coast Quilter's Alliance (Westford, MA), Quiltfest, JAX (Jacksonville, FL), Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival (Williamsburg, VA) as well as two Best of Shows for Maine quilts in her home state. As an international exhibitor, her appears in major publications and corporate collections. In 2000, she "group" curated a second traveling art quilt show and is editor of the book Oxymorons: Absurdly Logical Quilts! (AQS Publishing) that coincides with that exhibit. Her love of teaching is reflected in workshops that students describe as uniquely fun and exciting; she encourages creative freedom bordering on fabric mayhem.
Jacqueline Kunkel
Jackie has been quilting for 18 years and in business for 12, designing for 2 years and teaching since 1996. She was instrumental in forming the MOdern Connecticut Quilt guild an moderated an event in NYC for the Alliance of American Quilts in 2011. She has been producing a podcast for 3 years called Jackie's Quilting Chronicles, which can be found on iTunes, as well as tutorials on YouTube. She is a Nationally Certified Teacher for Judy Niemeyer's patterns and techniques. Her enthusiasm and knowledge will keep you coming back to her retreats again and again. Visit her website at www.cvquiltworks.com and her blog at cvquiltworks.blogspot.com.
Jane Masenas
Jane has been doing needlework since she was five years old and this will be her sixth year with "Quilting In Vermont". When she moved to Vermont in 1975, she became part of a church group that quilted beds quilts to earn money for the church. Since 1973, Jane has been an elementary school teacher and has collaborated with school teachers and the Shelburne Museum to integrate the arts, including textile arts into the school curriculum. Her quilts have been published in Miniature Quilts magazine. To date she has had 14 of her quilts published. Her personal trunk show is not to be missed.
