2022
Take a look at all the FABULOUS Jubilee entries
The Petersfield Sewing Bee Challenge 2021
Congratulations to
Sewing Bee Winner – Catherine King
Junior Sewing Bee Winner – Madeline Lucas
and of course all our Semi-finalists, category winners and everyone who entered the Bee with a desire to challenge themselves and play a part in our annual event in the Spirit of the Sewing Bee.
The Petersfield Sewing Bee Winners Announced during our special Socially Distanced presentation event on Sat 25th July
Congratulations to all category winners.
Sewing Bee Winner 2020 – Penny Hearn. Junior Sewing Bee Winner 2020 – Liddie Sobey
Petersfield Sewing Bee 2020
Presenting the talents of our amazing sewing community:
Challenge 1 – make anything you like with the 2 Fat Quarters – no. more fabric
Challenge 2 – Showcase your creative talents – must include a rainbow
Challenge 3 – Sewing with Stretch – make anything you like – you may add more stretch fabric
Junior Sewing Bee 2020
Challenge 1 – 2 Fat Quarters
Challenge 2 – transform a Tote Bag – include a rainbow
WHAT OUR FAIRIES DID DURING LOCKDOWN 2020
During Lockdown we have been working with a Federation of Hampshire GP Practices along the A3 corridor from Bordon to Haying Island and along to Fareham ad Gosport, to provide washable clinical gowns for their specialist respiratory hubs dealing with the COVID 19 virus.
We have an army of pattern cutting fairies, sewing fairies, and distributor fairies
We have raised over £8k and have purchased fabrics and elastic to make over 2500 clinical gowns, and have donated 600m of cotton fabric to local groups making scrubs for the NHS and Care worker teams.
We are now making 4000 cotton facemarks for patients to have for their doctor consultations.
THANK YOU to all who have donated or volunteered – you’re amazing!
Download the Clinical Gown Pattern & Instructions – gown pattern
Download the Risk Assessment CVirus
This is Carol – one of our pattern cutting and sewing fairies …
FREE PROJECTS:
These projects were found on various sites on the internet, we have not developed them but are sharing them for you to use for personal use and not commercial use
Striped Felt Purse Project – Stripey-Felt-Purse-By-Jomil-Final-Amend-2
Kids Felt Masks – Super-Kids-Masks-Tutorial
Disappearing 9 Patch – disappearing 9 patch
Assembling Your Quilt – assembling a patchwork quilt
Binding your Quilt – Binding Your Quilt
CELEBRATING OUR 5th BIRTHDAY IN STYLE
THE PETERSFIELD SEWING BEE – 2019
A Celebration for all…
CHALLENGE THREE – 2019
To commemorate the Victorian age and the introduction of the Postcard – make a stitched postcard of your own design
CHALLENGE TWO – 2019
To commemorate the Victorian age and the invention of Levi Jeans – take this metre of denim and make anything you like, you may add other fabrics BUT the denim must be the star of the show
CHALLENGE ONE – 2019
To commemorate the birth of Queen Victoria 200 years ago AND the birth of domestic sewing as we know it – create a Victoriana style pin cushion using the fabric & pins provided
Oh the fun we had at Our First Creative Textile Retreat
We won!
We are delighted to announce that Sew Creative won the Petersfield Award for Best Retailer of the Year 2018. This is the second time we have won this fabulous award in three years! As you can imagine, the team were so thrilled they celebrated long and hard in to the night!
Our thanks goes to all our customers who nominated us in the first place, their wonderfully generous nomination words and our team who consistently deliver our service every single day.
Sewing Bee Winners
Many congratulations to all this year’s entrants and especially the winners; you were all amazing.
Sally-ann Cole – Sewing Bee Champion 2018 (top, far left)
Rosie Wheeler – Junior Sewing Bee Champion 2018 (left)
Matt Ralph – Spirit of Sewing Bee Special Award
Jan Ashcroft – Highly Commended (top, second left)
Dawn Elliott – Highly Commended (top, second right)
Jane Goff – Highly Commended (top far right)
Jo and Wendy Gardiner (top middle)
This year we are commemorating the WW1 Centenary throughout all of the challenges so please make sure you pop by Sew Creative in Lavant Street to take a look at the amazing creations made by our most talented participants.
With three challenges to complete, including remodelling and using linen (very scarce in 1914), the winners will be announced on Saturday 14th July. Challenge 1 using poppy fabric is on display now in the sewing studio and Challenge 2 – remodelling – is in the window and shop.