UK’s Most Exciting Textile Craft & Hobby Supply Show!

September 12, 2006, 3:44 pm

From the 21st to the 24th of September WestPoint showrooms in Exeter will host the Creative Stitches and Hobbycrafts Show. See below for details from their website:

Visit the Creative Stitches & Hobbycrafts Show and find inspiration and fresh ideas from hundreds of new and established crafts and watch the experts in action! Enjoy a variety of talks, ‘Quick & Easy’ mini workshops, demonstrations and an abundance of supplies for all your creative pastimes. Be sure to pick up tricks of the trade from the professional demonstrators and Guild representatives all eager to share their knowledge with you!
Products ranging from card making supplies to cross stitch kits, stenciling, glass painting, scrapbooking and many more are all on offer - so take this opportunity to buy all those hard to find supplies for your own creations! With over 100 exhibitors showcasing thousands of products and hundreds of techniques, you are sure to find exactly what you need at this ever popular show!

The ‘Holiday on Ice’ Collection

From the celebrated costume designers at Holiday on Ice, ICHF presents a stunning collection of lavish costumes from shows past, present and future. Strewn with sequins and rhinestones, see the detail of these beautiful and extravagant costumes up close in a costume display supported with original design sketches and show photographs. This collection epitomises the glamour and excitement of Holiday on Ice’s spectacular ice shows.

How Does Your Knitting Grow?

The time has come to unveil our exciting show garden! The World’s first ever life-sized knitted garden - everything in the garden has been lovingly knitted or crocheted by members of the public over the past year. This unique creation, includes everything you would find in the garden from a deckchair to a vegetable plot, from a fish pond with frogs to a picnic laid out on a rug! Our show-stopping garden is certainly a riot of colour with hand-worked flowering blooms, bumble bees buzzing around a hive, spider in its web and ladybird scuttling over a plant pot. There is so much to excite and inspire in the garden, that a visit is simply a must!
Sponsored by the BHKC and Simply Knitting magazine.

Elements in Nature

An exciting and very different project - the second organized by the Quilters Guild and the Nature in Art Gallery, Gloucestershire. A total of 21 quilts were produced which were then hung outside in the gardens - no matter what the weather - for a duration of six weeks. Quilters rose to the challenge and produced pieces that would be affected by whatever the elements could throw at them. Some artists broke away from the traditional flat rectangular quilt and embraced the theme to design specialist quilts. Now here’s your chance to view a selection of the weathered quilts in all their glory!

Poetry in Stitches

ICHF are delighted to be able to present the National Needlework Archive’s exhibition ‘Poetry in Stitches’. There are over 100 wonderful pieces of textile art on show in this vibrant and dynamic display - all inspired by beautiful poems. Both amateur and professional textile artists took part in the project, ranging in age from 5 to 95. This is one of the last chances to see the exhibition as a whole, as the pieces are soon to be individually displayed in public waiting rooms around the country.

Magical World of Crafts and Gifts for Christmas and the Home!

A selection of our talented craft workers from our ‘Crafts Alive’ shows will be exhibiting an array of handcrafted gifts. These exquisite pieces of craftwork offer you a unique buying opportunity for Christmas and the chance to browse through some of the finest quality handcrafted gifts you will find anywhere. Take this perfect opportunity to find presents for all those hard to buy for friends and family.
Once again we are giving you the opportunity to take time out and learn or improve your hand-knitting techniques in our Knit ‘n’ Natter area where experts will be on hand to give help, assistance and inspiration for you to work with different yarns and develop new and interesting designs and ideas.

Try a new skill….

Why not try out a new skill in one of the Quick & Easy Mini Workshops. There’s no need to book, just check the programme for subjects that interest you when you arrive at the show.

Talks & Demonstrations

The show offers the chance to develop your skills or seek help with an existing project. Talks and demonstrations take place throughout the day - just head for the lecture theatre. The Creative Stitches and Hobbycrafts Show offers a combination of Britain’s most popular textile and creative hobby retailers with the very best of the country’s modern and traditional crafts.