Fashion, Embroidery & Stitch joins Sewing for Pleasure and Hobbycrafts for the first time at Birmingham NEC!
ICHF have moved the extremely popular textile art show, Fashion, Embroidery & Stitch to Birmingham NEC for the very first time this spring, joining Sewing for Pleasure and Hobbycrafts to create 3 fantastic shows for the price of 1 bigger and better than ever before! Find all of the latest ideas and designs from the world of sewing, textiles, fashion and craft, all from 25th – 28th March.
Meet the experts at Sewing for Pleasure for top fashion and dressmaking tips! For visitors looking to improve their sewing skills, join Alison Smith of ‘Alison Victoria School of Sewing’ for a half an hour session and learn how to create a fabulous finish to your garments. Modify your existing wardrobe at the Customisation Station and get new and easy ideas from talented designers to add some sparkle to your clothes!
Cross stitchers and counted thread enthusiasts will be itching to join Jane Greenoff’s Itch to Stitch Workshop! Jane will give problem-solving advice and provide instant stitch lessons including cutting Hardanger, or working hemstitch; how to embellish your embroideries with perfect French knots, and much more.
Visit the Pattern Bar for all the latest pattern books and get advise from dressmaking expert Thelma Judge, who worked for many years as the Dressmaking Advisor for John Lewis’s flagship store in London’s Oxford Street. At the Media Hub you can meet the teams from your favourite magazines including well-established titles such as Sewing World and Sew Today, plus Sew Hip and Sew which are new to the market!
Brand new to the show this year is the Junior Stitch Club, offering 8 – 16 year old children the chance to try a sewing machine – for FREE!
Meet the sewing experts and ask everything you need to know about dressmaking, sewing and tailoring for soft furnishing and fashion!
- Leicestershire based Michelle Pye runs a selection of dressmaking and tailoring courses
- Gill Arnold offers inspirational training for beginners and professional dressmakers at her studio in Birmingham.
- Sara Radford teaches informal workshops for dressmaking, boned bodices and period corset making and regular weekly sewing surgery at her Devon home
- Janet Moville runs the ‘Modern Approach Sewing School’ in Lancashire, teaching modern methods of dressmaking and tailoring to all ages and abilities.
- Pen Harrison has a wealth of experience in soft furnishings and runs a thriving business in the West Midlands.
Visit the Learn to Knit stand and take part in the brand new nautical knitting project ‘Above and Below the Waves’ in aid of the RNLI’s Train One – Save Many Campaign and designed by Alison Murray. When complete the display will incorporate a walk through tunnel representing life under and above the sea and will feature exclusively at ICHF shows in autumn 2010 and spring 2011.
Fashion, Embroidery & Stitch is celebrating its 21st Anniversary at this special show so come and enjoy the inspirational features and stunning displays from Textile Artists around the UK. Watch 3 FREE catwalk shows a day hosted by Brenda Killigrew from Inkberrow Design Centre and get up close to the OSCAR and BAFTA winning 18th century-style costumes, originally worn by Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes from the British hit film ‘The Duchess’.
In Celebration of Stitch brings together an incredible variety of pieces celebrating expressions of individualism. Pearls of Wisdom celebrates the Quilters Guild 30th Anniversary with a quilt from each region. Stylish Stitches is an exciting new joint venture between the UK Hand Knitting Association and the National Federation of Women’s Institutes with original home or fashion accessories knitted using unusual materials, fibres and textures.
Nearly 60 years ago Constance Howard, students from Goldsmiths College and members of the WI, created ‘The Country Wife’ Textile Mural for the Festival of Britain in 1951. The enormous piece of textile art measures 4.5m by 5m and is currently in the hands of the National Needlework Archive at the start of a restoration project – visit their stand to find out how you could help keep the Country Wife Mural alive.
Stewing fanatics could be in with the chance of winning £1,500 worth of prizes in the Stitch/Madeira Competition 2010! Stitch Magazine have joined forces with Madeira Uk Ltd in this Glimpses of ‘The Swinging Sixties’ themed competition open to all embroidery enthusiasts. Whether you work by hand, machine or mixed media, or are a beginner or an experienced embroiderer, you can enter! All entrants will be displayed and judged at the show and there will be a prize for each Category Winner and a superb prize for the Overall Winner!
Visit Hobbycrafts and take part in FREE mini workshops and demonstrations on Papercrafts, Beading, Jewellery making and lots more. Find hundreds of supplies from over 120 exhibitors and make your own cards, scrapbooks, calendars and much more!
Fashion enthusiasts, sewing fanatics and craft lovers should not miss out on the bigger and better Sewing for Pleasure / Hobbycrafts and Fashion, Embroidery & Stitch this year! With new ideas, all of the latest supplies and exciting, inspirational displays you can learn while you shop!
The shows are open 9.30 – 17.30 (17.00 Sunday)
Book Tickets on-line at www.ichf.co.uk
Or Phone Ticket Hotline 01425 277988
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I am coming to Britain this fall and I am a avid craft show person…I would like to know when the fall craft show is in Birmingham and Christmas show will be….
Many thanks, Linda
I will be in Birmingham this fall [September/October] and would like to know the dates for the Craft show that you have. I also, would like to know if you have a Christmas Craft show and those dates.