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Stitch Fest 2026 Exhibitor List
2by2 Shetlands
https://www.facebook.com/2by2shetlandsheep
2by2 Shetlands, based on the foothills of Dartmoor, offers Wool from their small flock of British breeds of Shetland & Teeswater sheep. Their sheep graze organic pastures, using regenerative methods, to grow fabulous fibre for you to enjoy including natural coloured skeins, rovings, bats and yarns spun for them by Dorset based Rampisham Mill. They also offer inspiration to try something new, with peg loom weaving kits including their own fibres.
A Little Craft Room
https://www.ravelry.com/designers/a-little-craft-room
Nicola's crochet and knitting designs will be on sale, in addition to some small bits and bobs to facilitate and enable your crafting! Patterns include a range of wearables, homewares, and accessories, and Nicola is always happy to discuss and give more information on all patterns.
Adelaide Walker
https://www.adelaidewalker.co.uk
Adelaide Walker have been supplying fibres to craftspeople for over 40 years. They sell a wide range of fibres for spinning and feltmaking, including natural and dyed British breeds, Merino, Bergschaf and their own exclusive blends. They also stock the complete range of Ashford equipment and their own hand turned drop spindles plus books, dyes and more.
Allium Threads
At Allium Threads, natural dyes are used to colour yarn, embroidery thread, fabric, felt and weaving yarn. Using plants from the garden and nearby gives unique colours. There are knitting patterns influenced by the countryside and natural forms, as well as kits based on these designs.
Along Avec Anna
Along avec Anna’s mission is to help knitting play a creative, calming, confidence-building and all-round positive role in people’s lives. They do this by placing accessibility and sustainability at the forefront of everything they do. They create ethical yarn, unique patterns, and custom accessories to provide beginners and experts alike with all their knitting needs. Their natural fibre bases are cruelty-free and certified, produced in collaboration with spinning mills that respect animals, humans, and the environment.
Auspicious Stitch
https://folksy.com/shops/auspiciousstitch
Auspicious Stitch is your one-stop shop for all things fibre. Sammy creates vivid, lovingly carded batts suitable for spinning & felting, focusing on expressive colour, zero-waste practices, and making available all of the items she wishes she could have accessed as a new fibre artist.
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.
Brentfox Yarns
Brentfox.co.uk
Natural plant-dyed luxury yarns and scarves. Rare breed native wools from Gloucestershire specialising in Cotswold and Jacob. Merino wool from Cambridgeshire also available. Natural dyed embroidery wool for creative mending. Dyes are made mostly from plants foraged responsibly. Patterns and kits designed for Brentfox wools. Some of these knitted items will also be available.
Butternut Handmade
https://butternuthandmadeuk.etsy.com/
Butternut Handmade creates thoughtfully designed project bags and notion pouches for knitters and makers. All items are crafted with care using beautifully curated fabrics that combine functionality with design. Pieces are made to be both practical and a joy to use - bringing a little extra joy to the creative process.
Create Well Project
Create Well Project loves to celebrate crafting and creativity with their range of handcrafted items, patterns and kits. They make and design jewellery, accessories, stationery and homewares with crafty folk in mind and those that love colour and pattern. They specialise in crochet and yarn-wrapped jewellery featuring beautiful indie-dyed yarns and upcycled and preloved materials. They also love to share skills and help others build confidence through their easy-to-use patterns and craft kits.
Dartmoor Wool Sheep
Dartmoor Wool Sheep run a mixed flock of Jacobs and Island Shetlands (mainly white and Moorits), imported for their hardiness, heritage, and wool quality. The Jacob sheep are bred from lines with high wool quality historically used for garment making. Both breeds are hardy and managed on marginal grazing to produce quality fleeces spun into yarn.
DawnGillDesigns
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, crochet / knitting toollery - including sterling bodkins, snag-free stitchmarkers/keepers, needle tidies and tension guides ideal for Fair Isle/colourwork as well as standard yarn work using sustainable and natural chemicals such as citric acid; vegan polishes; recycling all scrap, generating hydrogen gas and solar power.
Dina's Home of Crafts
Dina’s Home of Crafts offers a curated selection of luxurious yarns, fibres, and crafting accessories. Inspired by her Eastern European roots, Dina crafts bold and exciting colourways from mulesing-free sources. Alongside designing patterns, her boutique stocks a wide range of supplies from KnitPro, Lykke, HiyaHiya, Muud, Clover, Knitting
Barber, and Dharma.
Demelzas Delights
Demelzas Delights hand-dyed yarns and fibres are inspired by the places, people, history and stories of Cornwall, ranging from laceweight to squishy Super chunky. They also have a wide range of needles, hooks, stitch markers and notions for all knitters and crocheters, alongside Cornish handmade Drop spindles and hand-dyed British fibre.
Dragon Knot Studio
https://folksy.com/shops/DragonKnotStudio
The Dragon Knot Studio has been creating one off unique pieces of jewellery and other items that are knotted using all types of cord /yarn for the past 15 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.
Flock Fibre Crafts
Flock Fibrecrafts offers high-quality British fibre for spinning & felting, hand-dyed & handspun yarn in a range of vibrant colours together with beautifully hand-felted gifts & crafts. Whether you're a spinner, crafter, or looking for unique, handmade treasures, we have something special for you. All products are carefully & locally sourced and crafted to inspire creativity and add a personal touch to your projects.
Fox & Squirrel Creations
www.foxandsquirrelcreations.co.uk
Fox & Squirrel Creations specialises in vibrant and colourful hand-dyed yarn and fibre. Each skein/braid is hand dyed with professional acid dyes in their home studio. They enjoy using bright and bold colours to brighten up yarn projects and to make yarn crafts fun and exciting. They also stock a range of accessories from top brands such as KnitPro, Clover and Emma Ball.
Gill Sargeant-Textile Artist
Ginger Pink Yarns produce plant dyed wool with locally foraged and homegrown plants which result in a beautiful and varied range of seasonal colours. They source British wool and create their own dyes from foraged plants that include dock, nettle, walnut and weld. They'll be taking a variety of plant-dyed yarns, some special edition mini skein sets and plant-dye kits for you to try at home.
Gorgeous Yarns
Gorgeous Yarns
https://www.facebook.com/gorgeousyarns.co.uk
Gorgeous Yarns creates 4ply and DK dyed yarns in a beautiful palette of shades, dyed naturally with plants and roots. Explore their collection of dyed and undyed yarns, dye kits, and dye-stuffs, perfect for knitters, crocheters, and makers who love colour with meaning. Let nature's beauty inspire your next project with sustainable, thoughtfully crafted fibres.
Inner Fleece
www.Innerfleece.com
They sell hand-dyed fibres and yarn, with all colourways inspired by earth-bound natural tones. They use sustainable and eco-conscious dyeing methods and stock yarns, fibres, batts, and naturally felted soaps.
Janet and Bluebell
@Janetandbluebell
Travelling from the Yorkshire Dales in their trusty campervan, Bluebell, they offer hand-dyed local wools, yarns, and craft kits sourced from Wensleydale and Swaledale sheep. Their selection caters to spinners, weavers, felt makers, embroiderers, rug makers, knitters, crocheters, and textile artists.
Jillian Morris Textile Designs
They will be bringing hand-dyed yarns and fibres, some handwoven or knitted items, and craft kits. Alongside their own work, they bring a selection of ceramic buttons and beads from artisan makers in South Africa.
Jo Hunter Wearable Art
Jo Hunter creates beautiful buttons and shawl pins, handmade in polymer clay. 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.
Jo.Knit.Sew
Jo.Knit.Sew dyes yarns to suit every taste, from subtle pastels and neutrals right through to super bright neons. They also have a fabulous range of project bags and yarn buckets, all handmade with either vinyl embellishments or feature fabrics, including handwoven options. You'll also find their super popular Big Girl Pants!
Lake House Yarns
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LakeHouseYarns
Lake House Yarns offers nature-inspired, handmade art yarns and woven wall art. Their yarns are drum carded from a variety of beautiful fibres (merino wool, tussah silk, angelina sparkle) and coil-spun on a mohair thread core to add extra beauty and texture to any weaving or textile art creation.
Loom
Loom is a hand-dyed yarn and fibre studio based in Somerset. Jess creates rich tonals and gentle speckles on a range of luxury yarn bases; as well as hand-painted spinning fibre and a curated range of haberdashery, books, and knitting notions.
Made in the Button Room
Made in the Button Room is a design-led crochet brand offering a range of original amigurumi patterns and kits centred around the 'Button Room Minis'—a collection of fun character-led designs, all created using natural fibres with a focus on British wool. The collection includes beginner-friendly and improver level patterns alongside tools, notions, luxury handcrafted greetings cards, and small-scale British wool yarns.
Magpie & Butterfly
Bright, bold, and full of charm! Explore a vibrant collection of handmade ceramic buttons, beads, notions, and quirky decorations. Featuring spots, stripes, and unique designs, each piece is carefully crafted to bring personality to your creative projects. Perfect for makers who love to add a splash of colour and fun, these ceramics are as practical as they are playful!
Noteworthy
Noteworthy produces prize-winning mohair sourced directly from their own herd of Angora goats, including traditional and coloured varieties. They showcase the quality and versatility of mohair blends and offer sales and live demonstrations of continuous strand weaving on hand-made Tri-looms, available in sizes ranging from sample looms up to 7 feet.
Old Maid New
Heritage Goldwork embroidery, with metal threads and supplies. This year, Maria will be captivating audiences with a live demonstration on Goldwork Embroidery, showcasing the beauty and intricacy of this historic and elegant craft.
Philpsy
Handmade turned wood accessories designed to assist with crafting skills including knitting, crochet, sewing, felting, spinning, and weaving. Their selection ranges from drop spindles, tabletop yarn holders, and hand-turned crochet hooks to tiered cotton reel stands, magnetic pin bowls, and haberdashery items.
Pineapple Fibre Art
Pineapple Fibre Art is run by Emma in Devon. Inspired by the wonderful tones and natural beauty of hand-dyed yarn and the natural world, she designs mandala kits and patterns for all skill levels. Kits come filled with indie hand-dyed yarns, hoops, patterns, ribbons, and beads alongside related haberdashery.
Pixie Yarn
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 on a variety of fibre blends from lace weight to chunky. With merino bases alongside more luxurious blends.
Her work reflects a deep love of colour theory and experimentation with dye techniques. Whether you're looking for a bold rainbow palette or a softly speckled skein, Pixie Yarn has something to inspire every maker.
Purl by Pearl
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.
Second City Yarns
Second City Yarns is all about celebrating Birmingham using vibrant colours and traditional British materials. Inspiration comes from the Botanical Gardens, Jewellery Quarter and even the city's iconic 11 bus route! British wool top and carded batts are available for spinners and felters. They are passionate about supporting British farmers and reducing their environmental impact as much as possible. All their non superwash yarn and fibre is British and all packaging is plastic free.
Spindernella
Spindernella tries to use locally sourced fleeces whenever possible, often hand carding them with other natural fibres to create unique yarns and fibres. Ideal for spinners and felt makers alike! Hand knitting patterns have also been created for use with handspun yarns.
Swallerton Gate Farm
Producer of fleeces and sheepskins from their own rare and native sheep breeds raised on their Dartmoor-based family smallholding.
The Camel's Yarn
Inspired by the stunning Cornish coastline, Hannah from The Camel's Yarn offers a beautiful array of hand-dyed colourways, ranging from soft and subtle shades to deep and moody tones. Specialising in non-superwash bases, The Camel’s Yarn features luxurious blends of cashmere, alpaca, silk, linen, and British Bluefaced Leicester. Alongside their exquisite yarns, they offer a curated selection of tools and accessories, enhancing every crafter's experience. Discover the magic of Cornwall's landscapes through The Camel's Yarn!
The Crafty Bird
The Crafty Bird is best known as The Pom Pom Lady! She hand-makes super fluffy faux fur pom poms, as well as hand-dying gorgeous squishy yarn. She is dedicated to making swatches of her colours to help with your decisions as well as plus-sized samples to show off her yarns and give you pattern inspiration from lots of indie designers. She also designs crochet and knit accessories patterns.
The Twisted Felter
https://thetwistedfelter.contactin.bio/
Based on the borders of Devon and Cornwall, The Twisted Felter is a textile artist and shepherdess. Championing British rare breed wool, they hand-process fleeces, create vibrant art batts, rolags, and unique hand-spun yarns. Specialising in lustrous hand-dyed locks and fibre tops, they provide gorgeous fibres and kits for felters, spinners, and weavers.
The Woven Briar
Bec is a shepherd, spinner and weaver producing regeneratively grown, natural yarns and textiles in West Somerset. She has her own flock of fleece sheep producing high quality natural fibres which she sells as raw fleece, sliver, yarns and sheepskins, as well as producing her own hand made textiles.
The Yarny Octopus
Hand Dyed Luxury Yarns made in small batches from the Wild West of Cornwall on the West Penwith Peninsular. They'll be exhibiting a range of yarns on YAK, Merino Sock, Mohair, Alpaca Fluff, BFL DK, & Bamboo to name a few along with fibre for the spinners and weavers and a selection of their project bags that are made in house at Yarny HQ.
Trava & Wool
www.travawool.com
She uses natural dyes such as plants and flowers to dye yarn and recycled fabrics. Most of the finished items are decorated with hand embroidery featuring floral motifs, created in small, unique batches.
Tyddyn Bryn
Rooted in the Welsh hills, this smallholding produces naturally inspired, small-batch yarns from a no-kill flock. Each skein is hand-dyed using foraged and traditional dyes over a wood-fired burner, celebrating the colours of the landscape. Locally spun within seven miles of the farm, these sustainable yarns embody mindfulness and a deep respect for nature.
Wonderful Wool
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/WonderfulWool
Suppliers of quality wooltops and undyed yarns, for spinning, felting & dyeing.
Yarn Food
Natural care for natural fibre handmades: Yarn Food's no-rinse detergents not only clean gently and naturally but feed moisture back into natural fibres with fibre-specific formulas for wool and animal-fibre yarns, cotton and plant-fibre yarns as well as sock yarns. For sensitive skin, there is a hypoallergenic, unscented option available. Additionally, Yarn Food offers nourishing blocking sprays to freshen and feed hungry fibres while extending the time between washes.
