The best event in London for contemporary dressmaking, sewing and stitch
The Stitch Festival honors dressmaking in particular, putting a focus on independent fabric designers and pattern companies. It also hosts an annual Dressmaking Competition with six divisions. But dressmaking isn’t all it is! With everything from macrame and cross stitch to crochet and embroidery, you’ll be surrounded by color and creativity. It’s a fun day out for those who are artistic!
The Stitch Festival features a shopping village full of independent dyers, boutique fabric companies, and major sewing machine manufacturers, among other specialty craft suppliers!
The Stitch Festival was introduced by Upper Street Events (a division of Immediate Media) at the Business Design Centre in February 2020.
Previously called The Spring Knitting & Stitching Show (the springtime equivalent of The K&S Show in Alexandra Palace), The Stitch Festival was created to provide a slightly different experience for contemporary makers.
One of the liveliest and most diverse neighborhoods in London, Islington, is the site of the Stitch Festival. It caters to those who sew as well as those who enjoy knitting, crocheting, cross-stitching, embroidery, and other modern crafts.
Venue: Business Design Centre, London
Thursday: 10am – 6.30pm
Friday: 10am – 5.30pm
Saturday: 10am – 6.30pm
Sunday: 10am – 3pm
Exhibitors
2001 COMPANY
An Indian Summer
Aneela Hoey
Anns Orchard
Appletons Wool Limited
Baby lock (UK) Ltd
Barnyarns
Bazaar
Beddai
Beyond Biasa
Beyond Measure
Bombay Stores Fabrics
Bornella Fabrics
Botanical Yarn
Brian’s Best Wools
Brother Sewing Machines Europe
Claire Tyler Couture Ltd
Cloth Atelier
Cocoon&me
Colette Moscrop
Cotton Fairy
Craftpod
Crafty Baba
CraftySmith
Debonnaire
DEUNA InteriorDolls
Diamond Wolf Designs LTD
Doodlecraft Design
Dots n Stripes
Emily Peacock
Emporia Fabric and Crafts
Ernest Wright
Ethel and Joan
Fabazaar
Fabric Godmother
Fabric Owls Ltd
Fabrics by David Wells
Franklins Group Ltd
Gini’s Dorset Buttons
Gloforce
Hatch by Wilcom
Henley love Sweets
Higgs & Higgs
Imogen Melissa
Incomparable Buttons
Janet Clare
Jante Textile
Jenerates By Jen Hogg
JSF Ltd
Kate Blandford
King’s Ely
Lady McElroy Fabrics
Lili Fabrics
Lilly Rose Dolls
Little Rosy Cheeks
Love Poppet
M Rosenberg & Son
Madeira Garne
Maison Fauve
Marble Art Originals Ltd
Medecins Sans Frontieres
Michelle M. Gillam-Hull
Montreux Marketing Ltd.
OLSJONA EMBROIDERY
Paint-Box Threads
Patches Haberdashery
Pigeonwishes Button and Fabric
Pincushion Pantiles
Pineapple Fibre Art
Puddleducks
Purple Stitches
Quercus Books
Ragged Life
Rainbow Fabrics
Rowandean Embroidery
Roy’s Material World
SarahB
Seamesew Supplies
Seasons of East
SEW CENTRE LTD – BERNINA & PFAFF
Sew Different
Sew Made by Jess
Sew Me Something
Sew Over It
Sew Thimblewood
SewBox
Sewing Studio Bath
Sewmarkfrancis
Sewmotion
Sheepers
Shute Lane
Siesta Frames Ltd
Simply Vintage Designs
Sister Mintaka
Southampton Bead Shop, The
Stitch in Time
Strictly Knitting
Studio 7t7
Sunflower Stitches
Sutton Antiques
Sweet Pea Machine Embroidery
Tauko Magazine
Tessuti Fabrics LTD
The Cross Stitch Guild
The Gallery SW3
The Indian Block Print Co
The Joyful Crafting Company
The Left Hookery
The Make Arcade
The Makers Marks
The Makerss
The Modern Crafter
The Pigeon’s Nest
The Quilted Bear
The Running Stitches
The Seductive Stitch
The Specky Seamstress
The Spellbound Bead Co.
The Stitching Post
The Wool Shop Leeds
Threid Stitches
Tilly and the Buttons
TOFT
Treasure Kave Embroidery
Trend Patterns
TRUDY ANNE DESIGNS
UK Alpaca Yarns Ltd
Victoria McGowen-Smyth t/a The Jewellery Stop
W.Y. Studio
Wear Your Art
Wild Floss Embroidery
Wild&Green
Wimperis Embroidery
Working 4 Wildlife
Yarnsulike
