{"id":4294,"date":"2010-10-12T12:19:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T16:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2010-10-12T12:52:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T16:52:05","slug":"knitting-stitching-show-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=4294","title":{"rendered":"Knitting & Stitching Show in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis past weekend, my business partner and I attend the Knitting & Stitching show that was held in Alexandra Palace (nicknamed Ally Pally).\u00a0 The venue is in North London and is some 7 acres in size and is surrounded by 196 acres of parkland!\u00a0 Generally there are picturesque views of London.\u00a0 However, it was very overcast the day we arrived (luckily, the next day we spent in London was beautiful).<\/p>\n

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The show is subtitled “The Best Textiles Exhibition in Europe.” While I have nothing to compare it to, I will say it was a fantastic show.\u00a0 I was very impressed with the quality of work, the originality of it, the huge number of vendors offering all types of stuff — a wide range of art supplies, unusual yarns, beautiful threads, fabrics, and so on.
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\nWhen I think knitting, I think afghans and the like.\u00a0 Yet the knitting on display at the show was jaw-dropping.\u00a0 Look at these dresses! Wow!
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Like with the Birmingham Festival of Quilts show, the show features many individual white-walled galleries for individual artists or an artist group to display their work.<\/p>\n

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\nI’m told they generally get over 40,000 visitors.\u00a0 At times the crowds very dense.\u00a0 I later learned that the best time for shopping is very early or about an hour before the show closes.<\/p>\n

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\nRuth Isset of Art Van-Go was demonstrating various surface design techniques.<\/p>\n

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A close-up.<\/p>\n

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\nFrances Pickering was signing her new book, Page After Page<\/em>, on journals.\u00a0 It’s a fun book that illustrates her approach to journal making.<\/p>\n

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The wonderful Maggie Grey was demonstrating and selling her books, including her latest Mixed Media: New Stuido Techniques <\/em>(another winner).
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Above Gwen Hedley is selling and signing copies of her book, Drawn to Stitch<\/em>. I ordered my copy in the States.\u00a0 She tells me it’s a different version, with American spellings and such.\u00a0 It’s also a softcover while the one she is selling is hardback.\u00a0 The photo above shows many of the pieces that appears in the book.\u00a0 She was very happy to allow photography (as were most).<\/p>\n

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A batik demonstration.<\/p>\n

I also met a woman, Jamie Malden, who hosts Talking\u00a0 Threads, a UK TV show.\u00a0 She was lots of fun and we had a lot of laughs.\u00a0 I’ve got to get the photo of her up here.\u00a0 In the meantime, you can learn more about the show here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All in all, it was a great show!\u00a0 I came away feeling creatively recharged (which is always a good thing) and with lots of goodies.\u00a0 Tomorrow I’ll be heading back home to NJ.\u00a0 Hopefully later in the week I’ll post more pictures of the weekend adventures (alas, the rest was all work, work, work).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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