Cleveland Building
Our favorite room for craft retreats — wide tables, north light, and space to leave everything set up for the weekend.
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Craft & Sewing Retreats
Leave your machine set up. We'll bring the coffee.
A signature White Eagle specialty — multi-day retreats for quilting guilds, sewing circles, scrapbookers and fiber-arts groups on Lake Moraine.
Why crafters return every year
Built for makers who want to keep making.
Craft and sewing groups have been coming to White Eagle for decades. Everything is arranged so you can sit down at your machine, unwind the bobbin, and not stop for three days.
Big tables, great light
Wide worktables in the Cleveland Building and Appley rooms, with natural north light and generous overhead lighting for detail work.
Plenty of power
Abundant, well-placed outlets — machines, irons, cutting mats and design walls all plugged in without extension-cord chaos.
Leave it set up overnight
Multi-day packages let you leave projects, machines and works-in-progress on the table between sessions. Come back tomorrow and pick up where you left off.
Lakeside rooms, steps away
51 comfortable guest rooms on property. Walk from your pillow to your machine in a robe if you want to.
All meals catered
Full-service breakfast, lunch and dinner — plus coffee, tea and snacks — so no one in your group has to stop stitching to figure out food.
Made for guilds & circles
Quilting guilds, sewing circles, scrapbookers, knitters, fiber-arts groups and mixed-media crafters — we speak your language and know your setup.
Where you'll create
Workrooms sized to your project.
A sample four-day retreat
Long tables, long light, long weekends.
Thu · 3:00 PM
Arrival & set-up
Roll in, claim your table, set up your machine and design wall. Snacks and coffee waiting.
Thu · 6:00 PM
Welcome dinner
Family-style dinner overlooking the lake — a chance to meet new guild members.
Fri – Sat · All day
Open sew (with a workshop or two)
Machines running from breakfast to bedtime, with optional workshops, show-and-tell, and coffee refills on the hour.
Fri & Sat · Meals
Catered breakfast, lunch, dinner
All meals brought to you — no one has to break the flow to cook or drive to town.
Sat · 8:00 PM
Evening social
Show-and-tell, door prizes, or a bonfire at the Tepee for the group that wants it.
Sun · 10:00 AM
Farewell brunch
Brunch, packing, and one last look at everyone's finished pieces before goodbyes.
Common questions
What guilds and circles ask us most.
Reserve your retreat
Let's block off your workroom.
Share your guild or group name, headcount and preferred dates. We'll hold a workroom and lakeside rooms while we build your retreat package.