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The Great British Yarn Crawl – April – June 2024
The Great British Yarn Crawl is back.This year it runs from Saturday 13 April to Sunday 30 June.For anyone who loves visiting a yarn shop, it couldn’t be easier to take part. A real treat and a great excuse for a yarnie road trip.You’ll be able to pick up a free Yarn Crawl card from any […]
Black Joy! Up Close and Personal – 4 May – 25 August 2024
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery John's Place, Bohemia Road, Kent, United KingdomThis thought-provoking exhibition highlights over 40 talented black artists from the South East. The contemporary artworks exhibited include painting, sign-writing, fashion, textiles, sculpture, collage, photography, and video, inviting you to […]
Tangled Galashiels Fibre Festival – 31 May – 1 June 2024
Friends, Samira Hill of Eildon Hills Designs and Naomi Hodgson, have come together in efforts to celebrate the incredible dyers, spinners and crafters of the Scottish Borders and beyond!A truly community led event, the two-day festival offers an affordable platform for local and independent fibre artists to showcase their products, engage with their supporters and […]
Leeds Wool Festival – 1 June 2024
Leeds Industrial Museum Canal Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomLeeds Wool Festival is planned for 1 June 2024
Threads Textile Festival Market – 7-9 June 2024
Sunny Bank Mills 83-85 Town St, Farsley, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, United KingdomSunny Bank Mills' annual Textile Festival, 'Threads' is back for it's second instalment - celebrating textiles through a series of talks, workshops and more! Threads will take place across the site of Sunny Bank Mills over the weekend of 7th-9th June 2024. Alongside the market in the 1912 Mill with 50+ textile stalls, we will […]
World Wide Knit in Public Day – 8 June 2024
World Wide Knit in Public (WWKIP) Day is a celebration of our crafts, and a chance to share our enthusiasm for knitting and crochet with the public.Events involving members of […]
Leeds Central – WorldWide Knit in Public – 8 June 2024
SCRAP Creative Reuse Arts Project The Spinning Mill, Sunny Bank Mills, off Farsley Town Street, Leeds, United KingdomBring along your current WiP and join our Central Leeds Branch in the new cafe area at Scrap Reuse. The event will be advertised by Scrap so we may have people dropping in to ask for help. As the Threads Festival is running at the weekend, they are expecting to be busy.
Pop-up exhibition and crafting for World Wide Knit in Public Day – alongside Fringe Arts Bath – 8 June 2024
Outside Newark Works (near Mokoko Cafe) 2 Foundry Lane, Bath, United KingdomBath Branch's theme for visitors is ‘learn to knit or crochet, and watch the skills in action’.
As part of the Bath Fringe Festival, we will be at the Newark Works to celebrate World Wide Knit in Public Day (WWKIP).
The Wool Monty – 8-9 June 2024
Magna, Templeborough Magna, Magna Way, Templeborough, South Yorkshire, United KingdomThe organisers describe this show in the following way.The Wool Monty is a different kind of yarn show:ACCESSIBLE. INCLUSIVE. WELCOMING.We’re passionate about hosting a yarn show with a difference, that everyone can attend and enjoy. We cannot wait to see you there!OUR ACCESSIBILITY COMMITMENTOUR INCLUSIVITY COMMITMENTWe’re committed to making the show as representative of the […]
K&CG Oxford Branch Regional Day – 29 June 2024
St Anne's College Woodstock Road, Oxford, United KingdomThe Oxford Regional Day is back in 2024 featuring keynote speakers Lindy Zubairy on her crochet life and Emma Vining with Diana Bird (Chilton Grounds Farm) talking about an exciting yarn and pattern collaboration.
Spectrum Yarns Sale – 13 July 2024
Spa Mill New Street, Slaithwaite, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, United KingdomSpectrum Yarns Ltd is a family run worsted spinning textile mill in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire. They manufacture yarn for many end uses and also manufacture for their own knitwear brands […]
Yarningham – 13-14 July 2024
Uffculme Centre, Birmingham The Uffculme Centre, Queensbridge Road, Moseley, Birmingham, United KingdomYarningham, proudly different since 2016.As the only Black led yarn festival in the UK we are unique.
