A Fascinating Showcase of the UK's Finest Textile Arts

Downton Abbey

A stunning collection of costumes from the popular TV series, including dresses worn by Dame Maggie Smith (Dowager Countess of Grantham), Elizabeth McGovern (Countess of Grantham), Penelope Wilton (Isobel Crawley) and the three daughters, Lady Mary, Lady Edith and Lady Sybil Crawley.

See the real Downton Abbey at Highclere Castle near Newbury.
Full details at www.highclerecastle.co.uk

Art of Lace

"The history of lace-making", it has been said, "is the history of an art". Lace is not, like embroidery, an ornamented fabric, but is itself an ornament; the whole pattern is the fabric, and the fabric is the pattern.

This delightful exhibition explores the ancient craft of lace-making, both by hand and machine, including Needle lace; Cutwork, Bobbin lace; Crochet lace; Guipure and many others.

Romance of Words

The Romance of Words collection is the third 'In the Spotlight' exhibition from the Quilters Guild of the British Isles.

Rising stars from each region present literal and lateral interpretations of "The Romance of Words" in quilt form, celebrating the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility"

Fashion Design Competition - Design for a 1960's Icon!

On Friday 23rd March the schools 'Design for a 1960's Icon' competition finalists showcased their designs on the Fashion Embroidery & Stitch Catwalk, with the winner chosen live at the show! We're delighted to announce the winners of the competition as:

1st Rosie Trouson - Wigmore High School Herefordshire
2nd Zoe Poole Invicta - Grammar School Kent
3rd Jemina Jenkins - Greenbank High School Southport

Runner up Lauren Pataki - Wolverhampton Girls High School

The lucky winner received the coveted prize of a Brother Innov-is 1250 sewing and embroidery machine, (rrp £1,299) plus a one week work placement at the I.D.C. Academy for Fashion and Textiles. Second, Third and Runners up received a box of threads from Madeira Threads and books from Search Press. Click on the relevant link below to view the list of finalists together with the Competition Brief and details of the judges who decided on the winning design.

Sponsored by: Brother, IDC, ICHF, Madeira Threads and Search Press

• List of Finalists
• Fashion Design Competition Brief

With the Olympics in the UK this year and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee to celebrate, the eyes of the world will be focused on Britain in 2012 – so the theme for this year’s Madeira Competition “Glimpses of Blighty’. Entrants were asked to let their imagination to run wild and embroider all that is the ‘Best of British” – both past and present. All entries will be on display, with judging taking place on the first day of the show, and with many prizes up for grabs!

Poetry in Stitches 3

The National Needlework Archive is pleased to be showing pictures and poems submitted for the latest round of this ever-popular project. The object of the project is to combine textile art with poetry such that each form complements the other and promotes both to new audiences.

Professional and amateur textile artists are asked to interpret poems of their choice as pictures, which are then exhibited together with the poem, which inspired them. Lovely textiles, lovely poems, what more could you want!

Stylish Stitches Headgear

The National Federation of Women's Institutes (NFWI) and UK Hand Knitting Association, launched a competition challenging their members to get their needles clicking and design and knit a piece of headgear. Judged by renowned knitting expert and author Erika Knight, the winning entries will be on display along with the best of the rest

Fantastical Floral Garden

Stand L29
Karen Wood’s current cutting edge work is applying her considerable textile art and design skills to media not necessarily associated with textiles – namely, mild steel. She is developing her work, taking inspiration from late18th and early 19th century floral designs, creating three-dimensional floral and lace panels.

For Fashion Embroidery & Stitch she has created mild steel lace trees and MDF scenery; throughout the show visitors of all ages, can ‘drop in’ to cultivate a graffiti and textile garden – The accompanying images are samples of previous work. The work created for and during the show will be more sophisticated and challenging!

As the leading supplier of embroidery threads, Madeira offers one of the largest selections of threads and indispensable ancillaries for hand and machine embroidery and decorative sewing, with shiny and sparkling, sumptuous woollen, rayon, polyester, cotton and silk, plus a complete range of stabilizers including cold and hot water solubles to choose from. This is why leading professionals Linda & Laura Kemshall, Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn, Jane Greenoff & Sue Hawkins, Sue Rangeley and many more use Madeira’s inspirational threads and accessories.

Local textile artist Michala Gyetval, sponsored by Madeira Germany, will be demonstrating her special machine embroidery techniques, along with Royal School of Needlework trained hand-embroiderers Jen Goodwin and on Saturday, Helen McCooke delighting you with their styles and stories of ‘that dress’, worn by the one and only Kate Middleton.

Madeira Sponsored Students

• J28 Tracy Bidwell Graduated from Cleveland College of Art & Design
• J30 Amanda Law Graduated from University of Cumbria
• K09 Stacie Charlton Graduated from Cleveland College of Art & Design
• K10 Lucy Erwig Graduated from University of Cumbria

Calling all Fashionistas!

Brenda Killigrew and students from Inkberrow Design Centre and Warwickshire College, will host our exciting fashion show, giving talented students and exhibitors the chance to show off their garments on the catwalk.

Shows will take place at the following times:

• Thursday: A at 11.00, B at 13.00 and A at 15.00
• Friday: B at 11.00, A at 13.00 and B at 15.00
• Saturday: A at 11.00, B at 13.00 and A at 15.00
• Sunday: B at 11.00, A at 13.00 and B at 15.00

Catwalk A Garments supplied by:
Inkberrow Design Centre – Fashion (Fashion Embroidery & Stitch stand L24)
Sew Today Magazine (Sewing for Pleasure stand E05)
Coats Crafts UK (Sewing for Pleasure stand A18)
A Night at the Opera (Fashion Embroidery & Stitch stand G20)
Sheila May Green (Sewing for Pleasure stand B18)
Warwickshire College (Fashion Embroidery & Stitch stand N20)
Alison Smith (Sewing for Pleasure stand D07)
University of Wolverhampton -Etheralisation (Fashion Embroidery & Stitch stand N19)
Isobel Hall (Fashion Embroidery & Stitch stand L20)
D+T Design for a 60’s Icon competition (Friday only)

Catwalk B Garments supplied by:
Inkberrow Design Centre – Millinery (Fashion Embroidery & Stitch stand L24)
Sew Hip ‘Designer of the Year’ competition – excluding Sunday (Sewing for Pleasure stand G07)
Inside Crochet and Knit magazines (Sewing for Pleasure stand G07)
Walsall College (Fashion Embroidery & Stitch stand L22)
Barry Rogers (Sewing for Pleasure stand B17)
Simplicity (Sewing for Pleasure stand C06)
Portsmouth College (Fashion Embroidery & Stitch stand N16)
University of Wolverhampton – Electricity (Fashion Embroidery & Stitch stand N19)
University of Cumbria (Fashion Embroidery & Stitch stand N18)
Queen of Chocolates – The Cadbury Corset
D+T Design for a 60’s Icon competition (Friday only)

Silk Screen Printing Master Class with Dionne Swift

Stand L15
Throughout the show Dionne will be printing beautiful lengths of fabric with dyes and devoré. This is your opportunity to join in with the fun and learn some fantastic techniques.

Book Master Class slots on the stand: First come, first served.

FREE Workshop Programme

Inspire your inner fashionista at the Fashion Embroidery & Stitch workshops, and pick up all the latest style tips and advice from the experts. Just be sure to book your place early to avoid disappointment!

Madeira Workshops

Freudenberg Vilene Workshops

Silkcraft / Marabu Workshops

All this and 2 other shows too!

Your ticket to Fashion & Embroidery will give you free access to Sewing for Pleasure and Hobbycrafts over the same time period and at the same venue.

	Britain's biggest stitchcraft show! - All the latest innovations, designs and products for stitching, beading and knitting.
	This popular hobby supplies show has won 'Best Show' 6 years running and is where you will find all the materials and expert advice you need for your own creative craft hobbies.

Exhibitors List

NEC, Birmingham   22-25 March 2012

K28 21st Century Yarns
ZG20 A Night at the Opera
R09 Aarti J`s Beads & Trim
J34 Aid for Burma - KSDP Charity
J35 Aid for Burma - KSDP Charity
ZH02 Sue Allan
K12 Art Van Go
J12 Barnyarns & Superior Threads
J01 The Bead Merchant
K01 Bead Spider
ZL18 Margaret Beal
J25 Bombay Stores
ZN08 Richard Box
H09 Cancer Research UK
ZL24 Castanea Creative Courses /IDC
ZK33 Susan Chapman
H38 Coleshill Accessories
J38 Colourcraft C & A Ltd
ZH07 Helen Cowans
H26 Crazy Wire Company
K05 Dandelion Designs
ZL04 Helen Deighan
Y18 Dressed for Downton
ZK26 Eclectica
ZM01 Embroiderers Guild
K21 Emphasize
J04 Empress Mills
G17 Felt Head to Toe
ZM09 Fibrefusion
Y01 Freudenberg Vilene Workshop
ZL42 Fulcrum
J15 Goldwork Kits by Carolyn
ZM12 Grasby Embroiderers
ZP25 The Guild of Silk Painters
ZG15 Jane E Hall
ZL20 Isobel Hall
J27 Sue Hawkins
ZL14 Amanda Hislop
R15 Janna Hodgson
Y16 In the Spotlight
ZP22 International Feltmakers Association - Midlan
ZL10 Jeudis
ZH01 The Lace Guild
ZM07 Jenny Langley
ZN15 Leicestershire Adult Learning Longslade
K18 Lili Design Ltd
J10 Mabon Arts
Y06 Madeira Competition
ZH30 Madeira (UK) Ltd
ZJ30 Madeira Spons Student -Amanda Jane Law
ZK10 Madeira Spons Student -Lucy Serino Erwig
ZK09 Madeira Spons Student -Stacie Charlton
ZJ28 Madeira Sponsored Student-Tracy Bidwell
Y02 Madeira Workshop
ZL03 Dee - Anne McCoull
ZH11 Meniscus Textile Artists
ZH17 Lynda Monk
ZP28 Claire Muir
K07 Needle Needs
H36 New Forest Mohair
ZN10 NFWI/Denman College Craft School
ZH19 NNA / Newbury Coat
ZM05 NNA / Poetry in Stitches 3
K38 Nordic Needlecraft of Inverness
K35 Pearsalls Embroidery
K17 Phase Patch Craft
ZL01 Katie Pirson
ZN16 Portsmouth College
ZG22 QGBI - Contemporary Quilt Group
ZL44 Quatrefoil
ZN04 The Quilters Guild of the British Isles
ZH05 Sue Rangeley
J06 Riverbank Woodcrafts
ZB10 Ziggy Rytka
ZP32 Kathleen Laurel Sage
ZL12 Second Turning Textile Group
J22 Sew n Sew Nottingham
H15 The Silk Route
Y03 Silk Workshop
P30 silkcraft.co.uk
H12 Simple Way - The Leather Kit People
H30 Simply Spray Fabric Paints
H21 Slow Loris Textiles
H22 Slow Loris Textiles Display
ZL06 Maggie Smith
ZM10 South West Textiles Group
H27 Stef Francis
ZN21 Stitchbusiness
ZL02 Maggie Swain
ZL15 Dionne Swift
ZN05 Tangent Textiles
Y04 The Art of Lace
H08 Thermofax Screens
ZK25 Kim Thittichai
R11 Trudy Anne Designs
ZN18 University of Cumbria
ZN19 University of Wolverhampton
ZH06 Visions Textile Group
ZL22 Walsall College
ZN20 Warwickshire College
ZL25 West Country Embroiderers
J26 WonderFil Speciality Threads -Embroidery
J11 WonderFil Speciality Threads -Quilting
H25 Wooden Heart Co
ZL29 Karen Woods

Exhibitors List

NEC, Birmingham   21-24 March 2013

Sorry, the Exhibitors List for this show is not yet available.

Past Shows Exhibitors Lists

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• Fashion, Embroidery & Stitch @ NEC, Birmingham
  22-25 March 2012