The Red Dress
Prepare to be captivated as the world-famous Red Dress arrives at the NEC!
This incredible global collaborative embroidery project, initiated by British artist Kirstie Macleod, has become a platform for self-expression and an opportunity for voices to be amplified…
National Embroidery Awards 2025
Announcing the exciting all-new National Embroidery Awards, inviting entries from all corners of the community to celebrate the incredible artistry and diversity of embroidery…
Schools Fashion Design Competition 2025
This annual competition invites budding textile, art and design students aged 13-18 years to create the unimaginable and defy expectations with the brand new challenge: Wearable Art!…
Embroiderers’ Guild – Members’ Challenge and Members’ Project
The Embroiderers’ Guild welcomes stitchers from beginners to experienced, from simple hand work to machine and everything in between. Two very different exhibitions “Opposites Attract” and “Repair, Restore and Recycle” show a wide variety of interpretations of each theme.
Textile Stage
The Textile and Catwalk Stage offers FREE demos and talks from some of the UK’s favourite textile experts and on Friday lunchtime it hosts the final of the 2025 Student Fashion Design Competition: Wearable Art.
Programme details coming soon!
Elissa Handbury-Madin ¬– Textile Graduate Showcase
Elissa is an embroiderer who graduated from the Royal School of Needlework with a BA (hons) in Hand embroidery. Her creative practice is centred around social history and she has a love of collecting.
Textile Graduate Showcase - Elizabeth Connolly
Elizabeth Connolly, a 2024 graduate from the Royal School of Needlework, is a textile artist who specialises in hand embroidery. She works with natural and sustainable materials to produce unique textile pieces. Her graduate collection Warwickshire Tales explores the folklore of her home county.
Textile Graduate Showcase - Alice Aphra
Pushed by nostalgia and storytelling, ‘The Pub’ celebrates the rich history, quirky details, and tight-knit communities that make pubs such beloved institutions. The pieces playfully explore collage by incorporating handwritten elements from her grandfather’s pub journals and prints commonly found in traditional boozers.
Kingfly – David Morrish
Kingfly produces modern digital embroidered art for fashion and interiors, featuring vibrant colours and intricate details. David, a two-time winner of the Hand & Lock, Wilcom Digital Embroiderer of the Year Award, has had his work showcased in various publications, worn by celebrities, and featured on BBC 1’s “Make it at Market.” He is affiliated with the Crafts Council, the Embroiderers’ Guild, and is recognized as a QEST Scholar and Madeira Ambassador.
Embroidery Workshops
A selection of exciting hand and machine embroidery workshops, are available to pre-book online. To make sure you secure yourself a place on one of these popular sessions visit www.creativecraftshow.co.uk
Note: Workshop tickets are available to purchase approximately 12 weeks before the event.
The Red Dress
Prepare to be captivated as the world-famous Red Dress arrives at the NEC!
This incredible global collaborative embroidery project, initiated by British artist Kirstie Macleod, has become a platform for self-expression and an opportunity for voices to be amplified…
National Embroidery Awards 2025
Announcing the exciting all-new National Embroidery Awards, inviting entries from all corners of the community to celebrate the incredible artistry and diversity of embroidery…
Schools Fashion Design Competition 2025
This annual competition invites budding textile, art and design students aged 13-18 years to create the unimaginable and defy expectations with the brand new challenge: Wearable Art!…
Embroiderers’ Guild – Members’ Challenge and Members’ Project
The Embroiderers’ Guild welcomes stitchers from beginners to experienced, from simple hand work to machine and everything in between. Two very different exhibitions “Opposites Attract” and “Repair, Restore and Recycle” show a wide variety of interpretations of each theme.
Textile Stage
The Textile and Catwalk Stage offers FREE demos and talks from some of the UK’s favourite textile experts and on Friday lunchtime it hosts the final of the 2025 Student Fashion Design Competition: Wearable Art.
Programme details coming soon!
Elissa Handbury-Madin ¬– Textile Graduate Showcase
Elissa is an embroiderer who graduated from the Royal School of Needlework with a BA (hons) in Hand embroidery. Her creative practice is centred around social history and she has a love of collecting.
Textile Graduate Showcase - Elizabeth Connolly
Elizabeth Connolly, a 2024 graduate from the Royal School of Needlework, is a textile artist who specialises in hand embroidery. She works with natural and sustainable materials to produce unique textile pieces. Her graduate collection Warwickshire Tales explores the folklore of her home county.
Textile Graduate Showcase - Alice Aphra
Pushed by nostalgia and storytelling, ‘The Pub’ celebrates the rich history, quirky details, and tight-knit communities that make pubs such beloved institutions. The pieces playfully explore collage by incorporating handwritten elements from her grandfather’s pub journals and prints commonly found in traditional boozers.
Kingfly – David Morrish
Kingfly produces modern digital embroidered art for fashion and interiors, featuring vibrant colours and intricate details. David, a two-time winner of the Hand & Lock, Wilcom Digital Embroiderer of the Year Award, has had his work showcased in various publications, worn by celebrities, and featured on BBC 1’s “Make it at Market.” He is affiliated with the Crafts Council, the Embroiderers’ Guild, and is recognized as a QEST Scholar and Madeira Ambassador.
Embroidery Workshops
A selection of exciting hand and machine embroidery workshops, are available to pre-book online. To make sure you secure yourself a place on one of these popular sessions visit www.creativecraftshow.co.uk
Note: Workshop tickets are available to purchase approximately 12 weeks before the event.
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Demonstrators
CarolAnn J Allan
CarolAnn is an artist/educator specialising in hand embroidery based in Yorkshire. She also teaches Eco Printing and visible mending through the UK and especially community projects. Her own practice explores the importance of Slow Textiles and traditional skills, naturally dying her own fabrics and threads from her garden.
Jessica Grady
Jessica Grady is a mixed media embroidery artist, tutor and author, based in West Yorkshire. Her colourful and creative artwork uses recycled materials to create hand stitched wall art and sculptures. She teaches workshops across the UK and beyond.
Ruth Parkinson-Johns
With an experimental approach, Ruth explores processes of painting, dyeing, hand and machine embroidery to produce mixed media textiles. A deep connection to nature through observation, memory and imagination infuses her work resulting in serene detailed pieces.
Sue Bibby and Stephanie Redfern
Both Sue Bibby and Stephanie Redfern work with collaged, machine and hand stitched textiles. Each piece of work is artist designed, and both artists are inspired by the natural world.
Wendy Dolan
Independent City & Guilds College, offering the following qualifications: Pattern Cutting, Fashion, Theatre Costume and Textiles. Courses cover Beginners Sewing Techniques, Beginners Dressmaking, next-level onto creating your own patterns with pattern making. Unit building style course makes up Awards, Certificates and Diplomas in City & Guilds.
Alison Hulme
After completing a degree in Stitched Textiles, Alison has since spent her time exhibiting at various shows and exhibitions around the country. She finds exhibitions an excellent opportunity to meet new people and share her passion and enthusiasm for textiles through talks and workshops. She also has her own studio based in Hampshire.
Tilly Rose
Textile artist and author Tilly Rose will be sharing her love of slow stitching and daydream journaling with visitors on her stand. She will be showcasing her latest venture, her online subscription club, Tilly’s Slow Stitch Cafe as well as offering a selection of all her books and slow stitching kits to purchase.
Education and Textile Groups:
Eau Brink Studios
Eau Brink Studio, founded in 2016 by Textile Artist Anita O’Neill, is a contemporary crafting space located in Norfolk. Regardless of whether you are a novice or have experience working on textile projects, you are warmly welcomed at Eau Brink Studio.
eaubrinkstudio.co.uk
facebook.com/eaubrinkstudio
eaubrinkstudio@gmail.com
IDC College
Independent City & Guilds College, offering the following qualifications: Pattern Cutting, Fashion, Theatre Costume and Textiles. Courses cover Beginners Sewing Techniques, Beginners Dressmaking, next-level onto creating your own patterns with pattern making. Unit building style course makes up Awards, Certificates and Diplomas in City & Guilds.
Maria Thomas with Together Textiles
A Midlands based group of textile artists with a vibrant display of embroidered and mixed media textile-art. Their work includes both individual and collaboration pieces. Demonstrations of printing and stitching techniques on show.
Nolitex
Nolitex is a collective of artists from Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, working in textiles and mixed media. Regular exhibitions showcase their work, aiming to challenge themselves and inspire others.
Royal School of Needlework
The RSN is the international centre of excellence for the art of hand embroidery, teaching a variety of techniques from beginners to advanced, Online as well as in Bristol, Rugby, Durham and Glasgow, and at its base at Hampton Court Palace, south west London.
Embroiderers’ Guild
The Embroiderers’ Guild, for those attracted to or experienced in embroidery, stitch, textiles and related arts and crafts.
embroiderersguild.com
receptionist@embroiderers’guild.com
Traverse
Traverse is a collective of textile artists who utilize a diverse range of styles, media, and techniques. In their exhibition ‘Personal Perspectives,’ they have delved into unique themes and processes, incorporating felt, print, metal, and stitching. The members are excited to showcase their creations through demonstrations and interactive Make & Take sessions.