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Visiting BTHQ

Our shop is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 10am – 4pm and we are closed on Thursdays and Sundays. 

Feel free to come and shop for fabrics and trim and take a look around our workshop space to discuss your class requirements. You can also make use of our lounge area with Tea & Coffee if you wish to get cosy for an hour or so with a knitting or crochet project.

You do not need an appointment to visit during opening hours. 

Please check our social media on Facebook or Instagram before heading out just in case we have had to close early due to staff sickness or similar.

We run classes at various times and they may fall outside of these hours when we have external tutors teaching. Please refer to your booking confirmation for your class times.

Our number telephone number is 01277 811136.

We have free parking in our visitors car park which is the yard immediately as you drive in through the gate.  Please walk around the building to our unit.  If you require closer parking due to a disability or have mobility issues, please call us first, and we can arrange closer parking and access to our wheelchair friendly entrance.

SAT NAV

Our address is Unit 1, Ingrave Enterprise Centre, 8 Brentwood Road, Brentwood, Essex, CM13 3QH

If you use Sat Nav to find us it will take you to the nearby golf course.  Please bear this in mind and review the driving directions below for our exact location.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS

From the A127 – Turn off the A127 at the junction for Brentwood (Half Way House A128).  Follow the signs to Brentwood driving through the village of Herongate and then Ingrave.  As you leave Ingrave you will go through white gates and enter a 50mph zone.  On the right is a large cream house this is our site.  Drive past the white gates outside and past the two big trees on the right and then turn into the gate beyond the trees.  Park your car in this yard.

From Brentwood – From Wilsons corner at the top of the High Street, drive down the A128 Ingrave Road towards the A127.  Drive over Shenfield common cross roads and continue down the road, straight over a mini roundabout and King Georges Playing Fields on your right.  Staight over the next 2 roundabouts and into a 50mph zone.  (Go round a sharp left hand bend and then slow down and signal left as cars travel fast behind you and may not slow down enough for you to turn in).  You will see the big cream house and stable building approaching on your left. Turn into the 1st gate before the buildings and park in the yard you pull into.

OF A WEEKEND AND EVENING THE GATES TO THE VISITORS CAR PARK MAY BE LOCKED IN WHICH CASE PLEASE COME IN THROUGH THE WHITE METAL GATES BY THE HOUSE INSTEAD AND DRIVE ROUND.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

TRAIN – Our most accesible station is West Horndon on the C2C line as a regular bus service connects the train station to BTHQ.  Both Shenfield and Brentwood stations are less accesible and will require you to change on to a bus or add a walk to your journey as well.

BUS –  The 565 bus from Brentwood High Street – West Horndon train station (The bus stop is just on the border of the village of Ingrave and a couple of minutes walk along the road into the 50mph zone) DOWNLOAD A TIMETABLE

The number 9 bus comes from Billericay.  You will need to get off the bus at Eastham Crescent and then walk for approx 10 minutes to reach us

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Look at this stunning table runner Alison has been Look at this stunning table runner Alison has been working on at BTHQ over the last few days.

We just love the colours and how she's tried out all of the embroidery stutches on the @janomeuk DKS100SE machine.

This class is available to book in the studio over 2 days or 4 half days and is coming out as an online workshop for next year!!!

Platinum members of our VIP sewing club will get it this summer!!
Laura & Wendy will be twinning on their way to wor Laura & Wendy will be twinning on their way to work in these fabulous @sewoveritlondon Eve dresses

Made against the recommendation of a woven fabric (ssshhhh) in cotton jersey from our shop.
Purchase any plain cotton jersey and a patterned j Purchase any plain cotton jersey and a patterned jersey + order some A0 printing and we will throw in a free pack of stretch needles.
We had a lovely Heirloom Club this morning, but se We had a lovely Heirloom Club this morning, but seem to have done more talking than photography of our makes!
Freddie Fox is very pleased that he finally has an outfit underway, just need something special for his cravat
We've had another lovely fabric delivery and have We've had another lovely fabric delivery and have some fabulous new prints to share with you.

Join Claire LIVE on her YouTube channel at 11am on Wednesday 15th March when she will show you them all individually and make her pattern suggestions.
We have made the decision to no longer stock print We have made the decision to no longer stock printed patterns and focus on using our wonderful A0 printer (Colin the Canon).

We have a small stock of Tilly & The Buttons printed patterns in stock at the moment and have therefore reduced them all on the website by 25%

If you are a printed pattern fan and like a good old instruction book then grab yourself a bargain before they are all gone.

https://www.beautifulthingshq.com/product-category/fabric/patterns/
Would you like your own handmade holiday wardrobe Would you like your own handmade holiday wardrobe to rival Sandras? Join our free dressmaking journey challenge starting Monday 13th March and we can help you with a plan of action.
If you were not one of the lucky winners of our St If you were not one of the lucky winners of our Stitch Festival tickets but still want to go along, then we are pleased to be able to offer you a discount code:

BEAUTIFULTHINGS23

The discount is £2 off standard adult / concession tickets booked before 11.59pm Wednesday 22nd March 2023. Offer not valid on Sunday 26th March. Booking fee applies. 
 

*Save £2.00 on adult and concession tickets when quoting discount code at checkout. To purchase tickets, visit www.thestitchfestival.co.uk. Not valid on child, VIP or group tickets and cannot be used on Sunday 26th March. £3.50 transaction fee applies per e-ticket order (for any number of e-tickets purchased), and a £3.95 transaction fee applies per postal ticket order. T&Cs apply. Discount expires 11:59pm 22nd March.
If you are like me and have an ever growing 'colle If you are like me and have an ever growing 'collection' of fabric then why not release it from the shelf and turn it into something?

The perfect opportunity for it's release is to book a day or two at our BTHQ retreat in May.  Time dedicated purely to crafting and no external distractions.

Holiday Inn Brentwood 13th & 14th May 2023
CONGRATULATIONS We've drawn our winners for the S CONGRATULATIONS

We've drawn our winners for the Stitch Festival tickets. 

Katie Cope, Wendy Murphy, Donna White, Jane Richardson (facebook) and essex_girl_knits (Insta)

Please get in touch via email to beautifulthingshq@gmail.com to claim your tickets.  You must be able to attend on one of the days that the show is open and will be allocated 2 tickets each so you can bring a friend.
This is my final holiday post, it’s a stretch ve This is my final holiday post, it’s a stretch version of the Sew Over It Eve dress. Thanks so much to my sister Julie for taking loads of photos (and it was great fun!)
If you would like to build up your holiday/summer wardrobe then give us a call/email/message or head to BTHQ and we can help you get started!
Todays holiday outfit is the Sirocco jumpsuit by D Todays holiday outfit is the Sirocco jumpsuit by Deer and Doe. When Claire picked this pattern for her #sewoutofmycomfortzone I decided to take the leap too - and I love it!!!
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