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STITCH FEST BY THE SEA
Exhibitor List 2026
Following a fabulous first year at Weston-super-Mare, we’re pleased to welcome back a carefully selected mix of makers, indie businesses, and artisan producers from across the UK fibre arts community for our 2026 show. Each exhibitor brings their own approach to textile art and craft, offering visitors plenty to discover throughout the Winter Gardens Pavilion.
A Little Craft Room
www.ravelry.com/designers/nicola-tyrer
Nicola's crochet and knitting designs will be on sale, in addition to some small bits and bobs to facilitate (and enable!) your crafting. Samples of the patterns will also be on display to showcase the designs. Patterns include a range of wearables, homewares, and accessories, and some are available with yarn as a pattern pack. Nicola is always happy to discuss and give more information on all patterns.
Barn2Yarn
Barn to Yarn specialises in real wool ethically sourced from British farms. They work closely with farmers to create beautiful fibre products for spinners, felters, and fibre artists. The range includes art batts, hand-dyed and natural washed sheep locks, hand-dyed wool tops, and creative fibre kits. They also offer handmade finished pieces such as shawls and curated shawl kits, celebrating the beauty and versatility of British wool.
Blacklands Alpacas
Blacklands Alpacas in Somerset breed their own alpacas for the fleece which is used for their raw fleece, tops, pure alpaca yarn, kits and knitted, crocheted and woven products. Most is in natural colours although a little is hand dyed.
Chilton Wensleydales
Chilton Grounds Farm, a family-run farm in Buckinghamshire, combines generations of sheep farming with extensive knitting and spinning expertise to produce nature-inspired 4-ply and DK yarns from their Wensleydale longwools.
Dawn Gill Designs
Dawn believes beautiful, handmade jewellery shouldn't cost the earth; keeping her pricing and ecological footprint to a minimum
She creates her sustainable, handcrafted sterling silver jewellery, heirloom gemset buttons and crochet / knitting toollery* using sustainable and natural chemicals such as citric acid and vegan polishes; recycling all scrap, generating hydrogen gas using solar power
*Toollery includes sterling bodkins, snag-free stitchmarkers/keepers, needle tidies, pattern trackers, tension guides ideal for Fair Isle/colourwork and standard yarnwork
Dragon Knot Studio
www.folksy.com/shops/DragonKnotStudio
For the past 16 years Deborah has been invited to the Chinese Spring Festival at Exeter University to teach and display Chinese Knotting. Also she spent 2 years at Selfridges London making one off pieces for the Chinese New Year. Deborah creates one off unique pieces of jewellery and other items that are knotted using all types of cord /yarn for the past 16 years. The items use the techniques of Oriental knotting: Chinese Knotting, Japanese Kumihimo, Korean Maeduep with European influences. The Dragon Knot Studio also creates Micro-Macrame items that have brought this traditional technique into the modern era and can be found at Tavistock market every Wednesday.
Fern and Oak
www.folksy.com/shops/fernandoak
Fern and Oak specialises in handspun yarn, created with bold, vibrant fibres. They create their own batts with variations in colour and texture that result in unique combinations inspired by the natural world. Sustainability is a priority for Fern and Oak and they use primarily British fibre and offer options for plant based fibres.
Flock Fibrecrafts
Flock Fibre crafts brings makes heritage crafts easily accessible. Selling, fibre and tools for a range of fibrecrafts, including, weaving, felting, spinning and knitting.
Inner Fleece
Inner Fleece sell hand dyed fibres and yarn, all there colourways are earth bound natural colours. They use sustainable and eco concious dying methods and stock yarns fibres batts and naturally felted soaps.
Jillian Morris Textile Designs
Jillian sells individually hand-dyed yarns, mostly British wools, perfect for making smaller items, or mixing with solid colours in a larger garment.
She also sells handwoven items, including scarves and some textile art, plus some fibres, accessories and kits.
Alongside her own work, she brings a large selection of ceramic beads and buttons from artisan makers in South Africa.
Jo Hunter Wearable Art
Jo Hunter creates beautiful buttons and shawl pins, handmade in polymer clay from her Devon based studio. Her work often combines intricate textures, beautiful colour schemes and unusual shapes, making her pieces completely unique. Colourful, lightweight and durable, Jo’s buttons and pins make the perfect embellishment for your wool, textile or craft project. Jo also produces additional co-ordinating earrings, hair slides and brooches so you can put together the perfect combination of accessories.
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KnittyBYarn
KnittyBYarn has everything you need for your next knitting project - beautiful hand dyed BFL yarn, handmade stitch markers and even patterns! You just need to bring your needles.
Peregrine Sisters
Peregrine Sisters is a small family business working with luxury fibres, such as Angora, alpaca, mohair, silk, cashmere, and camel. They hand-spin a range of different yarns, all the way from specialty lace weight for heirloom works, mid-range yarns for everyday garments, through to chunky and textured yarns for tapestry weaving and other crafts. Fine hand-woven scarves, heavy rugs, and comfortable seat pads are also available. There’s also a variety of colours of carded alpaca batts and roving.
Pixie Yarn
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Sophie loves colour and uses complex colour palettes and a painterly style to create unique, richly coloured skeins of yarn. Her extensive range includes solid, speckled and variegated yarns that ensure versatility for knitters, crocheters and weavers.
You'll find hand dyed yarns on a variety of fiber blends from delicate lace weight to chunky. With merino bases alongside more luxurious blends.
Purl by Pearl
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Experience their collection of vibrant, plant dyed yarns and accessories. They create stunning colors through plant-based dyeing, utilizing locally foraged materials and flower shop surplus. They offer various bases, including a vegan option. All natural, zero plastic! They also make unique stitch markers with beautiful gemstones and vintage beads to complete your project.
Rosies Moments
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Rosie hand paints ethically sourced, luxury but affordable yarns. The inspiration for my colourways come from the countryside and coastline surrounding her home in Somerset.
To complement her yarns she designs patterns and these are available both in printed form and online. Some of the popular ones have been made into kits, and she also has more patterns in the pipeline for 2026. She brings a large selection of gifts for both knitting and crochet, including stitch markers, needle keeps and the popular gift a balls, which are filled with gifts. Rosie is constantly updating her stock and yarn bases ensuring returning customers always find something new. Each year she also dyes a charity yarn raising much needed funds for Marie Curie UK.
The Hive Pelynt
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The Hive is an Independent yarn shop in Pelynt , Cornwall, stocking a wide range of Natural fibre yarns and a wide selection of needles, hooks and notions for Knitters and Crocheters. The also have different spindles from around the world, handmade in Cornwall, as well as handdyed British Fibre from Demelzas Delights for the Spinners
Demelzas Delights hand dyed yarns are inspired by places, stories and history of Cornwall.
The Yarny Octopus
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Hand Dyed Luxury Yarns & Fibre. Hand made Project Bags, Kits and Patterns all produced in small batches by The Yarny Octopus from the Wild West of Cornwall on the West Penwith Peninsular.
Trava & wool
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Trava & Wool creates naturally dyed yarns and threads using plants and flowers to produce soft, organic colour palettes. The same dyeing process is also used on recycled fabrics, which are then transformed into one-of-a-kind project bags, finished with hand embroidery and decorative textile details. Her work combines traditional craft techniques with a thoughtful approach to sustainability and slow making.
Wonderful wool
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/WonderfulWool
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Wonderful wool supplies a range of hand dyed yarns and fibres, in a wide array of breeds and Blends. They have a large range of blended fibres in bright and colourful painted colourways and a good selection of variegated yarns.
Woollen Wytch
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Woollen Wytch creates hand-dyed British yarns and spinning fibres, celebrating sustainability and quality fibres. They specialize in vibrant colourways on British wool bases, including Bluefaced Leicester, Shetland, and alpaca blends, alongside eco-conscious bio-nylon sock yarn. Woollen Wytch also offers unique wooden stitch markers and wooden knitting accessories. Every item is crafted in Somerset with an emphasis on quality and creativity, perfect for knitting, crochet, and spinning enthusiasts seeking sustainable, British-made materials.
