Welcome to Wool-in Garden City Wool Festival
A Celebration of all things woolly
in Welwyn Garden City
18th – 24th November 2024
Something for all you lovers of yarn!
Following on from the success of the very first Wool-in Garden City wool festival in January we are going to do it all again! Although this time in a slightly different way!
Once again, we are going to take over an empty shop in the Howard Centre in Welwyn Garden City, turning it into a pop-up shop with workshops throughout the week and on the Sunday hold a one-day wool show at the Oaklands College, where different individual designers and makers of wool related products and other independent yarn businesses will exhibit together.
Join us at the Wool Show on Sunday 24th November
Meet the Exhibitors
We have so many fantastic independent yarn businesses, designers and makers exhibiting at our Wool Show at Oaklands College on Sunday 24th November. 10 - 4 pm
This will be the grand finale at the end of the week long Wool Festival
See below for more details about each exhibitor
Our Exhibitors
Woolly Chic
Woolly Chic specialises in British Wool and ethical yarns, which have inspired Helen’s unique crochet and knitting designs and are included in her kits.
Under The Olive Tree Knits
At Under the Olive Tree you’ll find lots of lovely hand-dyed yarns and knitting patterns.
Jem is a knitting designer and yarn dyer who loves to design patterns that show off the colours in hand-dyed yarn. You’ll find lots of one skein patterns that are great for those impulse ‘got to have it’ yarn purchases that you may pick up during the yarn show!
www.undertheolivetreeknits.com
YarnsULike
Marcia sells Plant Based Yarns, which are mostly recyclable, breathable, vegan and anti-bacterial. Like the Sugar cane, Soy Bean or Bio Bamboo yarn (also known as ''vegan silk'). Without using any animal fibre and without a hefty price tag!
https://folksy.com/shops/Yarnsulike
Kath Andrews Designs
Kath Andrews lives in North Wales with her wife and regularly takes inspiration from the Welsh landscape, language and traditions when designing. Her designs have been published since 2012 in UK knitting magazines and Knit Picks collections in the US, and she also loves to share her knowledge of knitting through workshops. Her designs include techniques from lace-knitting to brioche, cables and colour-work, and she loves interesting construction.
https://kathandrewsdesigns.com
MadeByMe
Vibrant, stylish, and practical project bags and notion purses from carefully sourced African prints and other unique inspired fabrics. All items are made by Gail with loving care.
Little Likac
Amanda hand dyes literary inspired colours on luxury bases including silk and merino, but there is always plenty of sparkle on hand to add that little extra something.
No Moths Allowed
Handspun yarn and carded fibres for all crafting adventures.
No moths allowed focuses on a variety of handspun yarn and carded fibres for all crafting possiblities. Handmade woven and knitted garments from shawls to jackets as well felted accessories. Kera has a passion for traditional crafts making them accessible for all ages to pick up and create.
Twisted Yarns
Twisted Yarns sells hand dyed yarn on a variety of weights using mainly British wool. We have crocheted shawls and cowls and sell the patterns and kits for these too. Luisa also makes beautiful stitch markers and accessories.
SewingBeeByD
We are a mum & daughter duo, each with our own Etsy shops but we come together to vend at the yarn shows. I’m Denise, SewingBeebyD, & I make sewn knitting project bags & accessories, I always try to source my fabrics from small business’s
Beancraftsalot hand dyes all her yarns and makes very unique hand beaded stitch markers.
You can find them on Etsy
Buttoned Up
Judith makes beautiful, intricate porcelain buttons. Each button is individually handmade, hand decorated and unique - a little piece of art in its own right. Many are inspired by the rich nature of her surroundings, the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside, all things botanical and my much loved pets. She makes buttons in all shapes, sizes and colours, meaning there is most definitely a button for everyone and every project.
The Knitting Gift Shop
The Knitting Gift Shop, based in County Durham, is run by Tricia and Ian Fothergill and they specialise in unique high quality gifts for knitters. They have their own range of UK spun natural and dyed wool which features in Tricia’s original knitting designs. Their wide ranging knitting kits include handwarmers, scarves, cowls, bags, purses, accessories and very popular Christmas decorations. They also sell a large range of yarn bowls and knitting accessories including their unique magnetic line keeper, as well as shawl pins, brooches & notions.
Yarn Tings
YarnTings is where colour comes to play with luxury yarns and fibres creating a feast for the senses. Founded by multidisciplinary artist Charmaine Wombwell, her selection of hand dyed, natural fibre bases, stunningly squishy art batts and fun textured hand spun yarns make for a bold, beautiful and boujie crafting experience.
Snuggly Stars Yarns
Snuggly Stars Yarns provide a fabulous range of hand dyed yarns on various bases to suit all sorts of projects. Ranging from sturdy and luxury sock yarns, and of course the squishy Sport and DK Weight bases. All of Gemma’s yarns are dyed using various techniques in her kitchen! She has a selection of repeatable colourways as well as a fun bunch of OOAK skeins too.
Four Otter Craft Studio
We are a textile studio based in North London. We're all about the art of crafting, offering a variety of classes and courses that span the wonderful world of knitting, crochet, spinning, and dyeing. we're firm believers in the strength of community, and that's why we host regular community groups, ever Friday and two monthly groups too.
An Caitin Beag
Feline crafty? An Caitín Beag's catty patterns, accessories and extras are purrfect if you'd like a little more cat in your knitting.
Marna makes things to delight the cat-loving crafter - everything from catty project bags, stitch markers and handy accessories to knitting patterns featuring cats. (There’s a little bit of dog content as well.)
Tine and Floyd
Tine is a hand spinner and indie dyer and passionate about all things sheepy and woolly. She enjoys blending fibres in batts which are suitable for spinning and felting. Some of her yarns are hand spun by her and she also undertakes spinning and dyeing commissions.
Tine and Floyd are dealers for SpinOlution wheels and sell a variety of Turkish spindles, dealgans, niddy noddies, spindle support bowls, nostrepinnes and knitting kits.
Addicted2Knit
Addicted2Knit is an online retailer based in North London. Lee is also the hand dyer and designer of kits that trades under the label of Apples and Pears. They concentrate on natural fibres and sell the wonderful mohair range that is Adele’s mohair which is from a job creation project in South Africa.
Dyeing Made Easy
Would you love to learn how to hand dye yarn? We offer an easy step-by-step course, delivered in an exciting monthly box. Whether you are a knitter, crocheter, or felter, having your own dyed materials is the next step in creativity. With this monthly home-dyeing course, you are sent everything you need to do each lesson at home. We send you pure wool yarn, dyes, and all the bits and bobs, as well as clear instructions to make each technique easy. Allow a couple of hours to complete each module, and you’ll soon be confidently dyeing your own yarn for unique projects.
Rosies Moments
Rosie hand paints ethically sourced, luxury but affordable yarns.The inspiration for the 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.
She will bring with her 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.
North Herts Spinners, Weavers and Dyers Guild
The North Herts Guild supports the preservation, improvement and promotion of craftsmanship in hand weaving, spinning and dyeing.
Members of the Guild will be demonstrating Spinning, Carding and Weaving at the Wool Show.
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Crochet for Kid's Cancer Project
We are really proud to be supporting the Crochet for Kids’ Cancer project at the Wool-in Garden City Wool Festival,
Kellie Bright, Eastenders' actress and Patron of the charity, Solving Kids Cancer, will be coming to the Wool-in Garden City Wool Show on Sunday 24th November and she will be asking visitors to help her crochet granny square blankets. She has been teaching her celebrity friends how to crochet granny squares and these, together with squares sent to her from all around the country, will be made into blankets and sold to raise crucial awareness and funds for the cancer charity.
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2024
Wool-in Garden City
Pop Up Shop
18th - 23rd November
Our Pop Up shop can be found in Unit 23a, on the Ground Floor of The Howard Centre in Welwyn Garden City.
For those travelling by car, we are just 5 minutes from Junction 4 of the A1(M). The 745 space car park is situated directly adjacent to the Howard Centre offering reasonably priced, secure parking. There are designated disabled parking spaces located on Level 1 of the Car Park, conveniently located close to our First Floor Centre entrance. These can be found by following the blue painted floor lane. There are also several parent and child car parking spaces on levels 3, 5, and 7 in the car park adjacent to the pay stations.
For Sat Nav users, our address is:
The Howard Centre
Welwyn Garden City
Hertfordshire
AL8 6HA
Free Entry
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