Here’s our top 5 things to watch out for from Spring’s hottest craft festival.
1. Build your stitchy stash!
Find must-have craft products and shop from 100+ quality exhibitors selling patterns, fabric, thread, yarn, kits, haberdashery, sewing machines and more!
2. The Stitch Stage
We can’t wait to dive into a jam-packed programme of free demos, talks and Q&As
3. Hundreds of workshops
Choose from hundreds of workshops covering machine sewing, free motion, embroidery, hand stitching, weaving, dyeing, knitting, crochet, wet and needle felting.
4. The dressmaking competition
Enter your designs in one of four categories for the chance to model your creation on the catwalk and to win some fabulous prizes! Entries will also be on display at the show.
5. Displays and collections
A few of our picks of the 2022 Festival included
Sew Over It with a collection of garments made from their stylish sewing patterns
Jo Avery presents Modern Crewel Embroidery from her new book
TOFT present crocheted dolls to celebrate Women Who Made History
Emma Congdon (@stitchrovia) presents a collection of contemporary cross stitch
The Great British Quilter present quilts from the Mini Quilt Challenge
Zoe launched the craft website Gathered.how as editor in 2019. A keen crafter, quilter and sewist, she has worked with the UK’s best-selling craft magazines – from Today’s Quilter to Love Patchwork & Quilting, Simply Sewing and The World of Cross Stitching. With over a decade of craft publishing experience under her belt, she loves crafting with her kids and curling up on the sofa with a spot of hand patchwork.
Zoe has previously written for radiotimes.com, Simply Knitting and The World of Cross Stitching and was previously Deputy Editor of Papercraft inspirations magazine. She has guest-lectured at Bath Spa University.
She’s a keen quilter with 5 projects in progress at any one time and another 12 or so planned. Specialist skills include hand modelling for YouTube craft tutorials and fabric foraging (she has an inbuilt radar for local haberdasheries and community craft gatherings).
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