Highlights of the 2008 Show
Cutting edge Textile Art to excite and inspire.
A Textile Artist's Paradise………
Don't miss Britain's biggest and brightest textile craft show! Sewing for Pleasure brings you all the latest cutting edge designs and innovative supplies for the many exciting textile crafts around - from quilting to shibori! With over l80 exhibitors demonstrating and showing thousands of products, plus lots of inspirational displays and expert advice from members of the UK Guilds, you are sure to find lots of new ideas for your own creations.
Beading Extravaganza
An exciting display of beadwork from both professional and amateur collections, covering a wide variety of beading techniques. Discover work from the world-renowned company 'Hand & Lock'; original 1920's 'Flapper' dresses; African and Indian beadwork; group competition pieces from the Beadworkers Guild plus work from their exquisite private collection.
The Knitting Forum
Take time out and learn or improve your hand-knitting techniques. Experts will be on hand to give you help, assistance and inspiration and allow you to work with different yarns as well as develop new and interesting designs and ideas.
Knitted Gingerbread House
This life-sized knitted 'Hansel & Gretel' style Gingerbread House (10' x 16') is an amazing knitting project featuring everything you could find in a house, including a full size bed, Welsh-dresser, stove and cuckoo clock, all lovingly created by 1,000's of people to raise money for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity.
 Shaun the Sheep & The Great British PicKnit
© Aardman Animations Ltd 2007
We need your help to create our fabulous new knitting project 'Shaun the Sheep & The Great British PicKnit' featuring 'Shaun the Sheep' the latest, exciting character from Aardman Animations (creators of Wallace & Gromit). So indulge your favourite hobby and get those needles clicking! Take time out and learn or improve your hand-knitting techniques, free-of-charge, with our resident experts.
Textile Treasures of the WI Exhibition
The National Needlework Archive and the NFWI have worked together to
record the textiles belonging to the WI with over 9,000 pieces of work
recorded belonging to WI's, Federations, NFWI and Denman College.
The show offers a unique opportunity to see some exquisite pieces
of work - some with a story to tell and some which are the
very essence of the WI.
Stars on the Dance Floor
From the costume designers for Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing On Ice, ICHF are pleased to present a stunning display from the world-renowned couture company Chrisanne Ltd (www.chrisanne.com) The show display will include a selection of outfits from the BBC One smash hit programme Stricly Come Dancing. Each outfit is encrusted with Swarovski rhinestones and lovingly created with individual care and attention to accentuate the dancers' movements and flow with every motion. Chrisanne supplies the majority of the dresses for the female dancers and celebrities on Strictly come Dancing, and has been involved since the programme's inception.
Fashion Shows
One of the many highlights of the show, we proudly present another fabulous catwalk spectacular. Hosted again by Brenda Killigrew and the Inkberrow Design Centre, the show enables talented students and exhibitors to show off their creations in a thrilling catwalk show. The show takes place at regular intervals throughout the four days. There's no need to book - just take a seat in our theatre, relax and enjoy! Show times: 11.00, 13.00 and 15.00 daily.
A Stitch In Time
This fantastic exhibition comes straight from the Stockport Story Museum courtesy of the Quilters Guild of the British Isle who were invited to use Staircase House as the inspiration for a quilt design resulting in A Stitch in Time.
Hot Textiles!
Brighton based textile artist & tutor Kim Thittichai will be exhibiting exclusively this autumn at the ICHF shows, signing copies of her new book Hot Textiles! Alongside an exhibition of work from her book and demonstrations of many new techniques.
The Dressmakers Forum
This specialist forum will provide you with the opportunity to peruse all the latest pattern books with experts on hand to unravel the mysteries of cutting out and making up, along with guidance on new products and where to find all your sewing 'notions' at the show. Supported by Sewing World Magazine and www.isew.co.uk
Whatever your favourite textile craft, you'll find everything from the experimental to the traditional and a huge variety in between. So for a warm welcome and all the ideas, inspirations and supplies you could possibly want, come and discover what the Sewing for Pleasure show has to offer!
All this and another show too…
 Your ticket to Sewing for Pleasure means you can also visit Hobbycrafts in Hall 11, completely FREE. Hobbycrafts is the ultimate hobby supply show for creative crafts where you will find inspiration and ideas from over l00 exhibitors. More details of this show can be found on the Hobbycrafts page.
Details may change due to unforeseen circumstances.
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