Join Jeni as they guide you through the process of photographing your knits using a colourful mixture of inspirational images and practical advice.

Flora will talk about Visible Creative Mending, with a focus on repairing knitwear. She will share her design journey into repairs, share examples of the different techniques she uses and her approach of design led mending.

Do you want to dip your toe into the world of knitwear design? This workshop will cover all of the main pillars of design from swatching and gauge to fit and pattern writing. You'll leave with a pattern ready to work up your very first hat sample.

Come and explore creative drawing with artist Salina Jane, and expand your skills with Lino printing. You will learn how to draw your craft in interesting ways through relief printing. You’ll leave with prints and cards on a variety of papers!

Join Janet Hughes, a trained textile designer, natural dye grower, and experienced educator, for a hands-on and beginner-friendly weave workshop.

This workshop introduces participants to Nüshu, the endangered women’s script from rural China, through weaving, simple stitching and shared storytelling. In this session, participants will learn a few Nüshu symbols and create a unique personalized bookmark that holds a personal message or wish with their handmade paper and threads.

Join Nora for a bit of knitting history, when the old became new again: Yarns International Shetland 2000 was a joint venture of US LYS owner Betty Lindsay and Jamieson & Smith, making available for the first time in the US Shetland knitting wool that was undyed and came in multiple colours. Its release was the beginning of a new way of thinking about color in knitting and helped change how yarn and designs are marketed.

Jiayi Chen is a visual and performance artist whose work centres on Nüshu, the endangered women’s script from rural China. Join her as she weaves together Nüshu with textile traditions that have held memories across generations.

Learn how to create your own beautiful, snag-free beaded stitch markers, learning from experienced jeweller Rebecca Anderson, using foundational jewellery wirework techniques. You will have the option to turn these into wearable, simple yet beautiful jewellery!

Go beyond basic intarsia to explore knitting intarsia patterns in the round. Plus, pick up tips for keeping your yarns organised, maintaining tension, calculating yarn needs and more.

Two-colour Brioche knitting is a fabulous technique that creates strikingly beautiful, colourful and reversible cosy garments and accessories. n this workshop, Samira will teach you the fundamental techniques of Brioche knitting.

In this workshop you will knit in the round on double pointed needles to create a ladybird lavender bag. Using increase and decrease technics along with grafting (Kitchener stitch) to create a 3D shape. A fun project looking at skills required for shaping garments. We will also have time to look at other 3D textile shapes.

Have you ever wondered when people started to crochet? Where they came from? How they learned? What they made? Join crochet historian, Eleanor Gilchrist, for a rapid romp through 300 years of crochet history told through books, hooks, bags and blankets.

This talk will focus on creating successful colour palettes according to the colour wheel. You will go through some colour theory, learning about cool and warm colours and possible colour combinations.

Calling all designers! Do you wish your pattern-writing process would run a little more smoothly? This workshop is designed to help you write better patterns, whilst making the process speedier and less stressful.

Join Lorna from Threid Stitches and learn and master basic hand embroidery techniques with wonderfully tactile fibres in a contemporary and relaxed style. Create your own seasonal embroidered piece of your favourite location with an array of exciting wools and fibres.

Botanical printing is a simple process of Alchemy - “a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, to combination”. Using natural mordants such as Alum to pretreat woven or felted wool fabrics to imprint the designs of natural leaves and flowers, you will produce a colour and lightfast wool creation.

This workshop will demystify the world of spinning, and teach beginners the fundamentals of how to spin yarn on a drop spindle.

Kate was the editor of a knitting magazine in the UK for 10 years - but now she's a free agent and ready to share all of her behind-the-scenes secrets, surprising stories and insider tricks.

Explore the science behind the fibres that are the foundations of textile crafts in this talk delivered by textile conservator Isabella Rossi. Why does wool absorb so much water, why is linen so strong, and why does alpaca stretch, but not return to form? Come find our the answer to all these questions and more!

Explore intarsia knitting and learn tips for keeping your yarns organised, maintaining your tension, calculating yarn needs and more.

During the course of the workshop you will learn how to spin on a stick or 'pirn', create a centre pull ball from your yarn, ply your handspun and wind it into a mini skein. Everyone will go home with a small skein of their own plied handspun yarn.

This workshop is an introduction to Fair Isle knitting using the Shetland making method on three double pointed needles. ou will knit a small Fair Isle square from a pattern which can be turned into a lavender bag.

Samira will teach you what Tunisian Crochet is and how it works, all the techniques and standard stitches, basic shaping techniques, how to read and follow a Tunisian Crochet pattern, and give you an overview of the range of fabric possibilities using Tunisian Crochet.

Join Tania Ashton Jones of TJFrog as she takes you on a journey of how Dorset Buttons were used at the height of the Dorset Button cottage industry in the 1600 - 1800s, and how you can incorporate them today with your handmade woolly projects. Lots of ideas and samples will be shared from Shetland wool to hand dyed 4ply yarn, from cardigan buttons to shawl pins. Functional buttons to statement embellishments, be inspired to make Dorset Buttons to add to your creative projects!

Learn the art of needle felting and create your own stunning felted painting inspired by Scotland's rugged landscapes.

At the end of the workshop you will walk away with a stunning felt landscape of your favourite place to hang up somewhere special! We will learn some more techniques like how to add a fluffy highland coo or sheep to your felted landscapes. It’s one not to missed!

Our workshops have an emphasis on craft for wellbeing so we will talk about how to slow down and move into a flow state.

Learn Fair Isle knitting with expert knitter, Helen Chatterton. You will learn the techniques of Fair Isle knitting on four double pointed needles and how to read charts. You will start to knit a lavender bag and go away with the materials to finish it at home, including yarn and a small lavender pouch.

Wool is a wonderful, natural fibre. It’s soft and squishy and makes cosy clothing and accessories. But do you know what else it can be used for? By exploiting wool’s many beneficial properties discover how innovative companies have made, or are developing, products that can be used in sectors such as horticulture to peatland and countryside management, packaging and construction to cosmetics and healthcare. Now there are even more ways to add wool into our lives.

1998 saw the release of a new “old yarn”. Yarns International Shetland 2000 was a venture of US local yarn store owner Betty Lindsay and Jamieson & Smith, making available for the first time in the US, Shetland knitting wool that was undyed and came in multiple colours. Its release was the beginning of a new way of thinking about colour in knitting and helped change how yarn and designs are marketed. This talk tells that story and examines the role that Betty and her partners had in shaping our hand knitting industry today.

Join Nora L Howley - knitter, researcher and storyteller - for this fascinating tale! Nora is particularly interested in the stories of the relationships between patterns, yarns, people, and places.

Always wanted to learn tapestry crochet, or struggled to get the hang of it in the past? Come and learn the basics with experienced teacher and designer Merrian.