Yarn Shows and Markets 2025
We love to get out and about with Inspiring Yarns and meet you all. Check below for upcoming yarn shows where you will find us, come along and say Hi!
Gathering Stitches Festival
Our very own 2-day festival based in County Down, Northern Ireland, celebrating yarn, textiles and sustainable fashion.
Saturday 17th May & Sunday 18th May 2025
WWT Castle Espie, 78 Ballydrain Road, Comber, BT23 6EA
Spinning Yarns Festival
Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th September 2025
Theatre at The Mill, Mossley Mill, Carnmoney Road N, Newtownabbey BT36 5QA
https://antrimandnewtownabbey.gov.uk/events/2024/september/spinning-yarns-2024/
Yarndale
Championing the brilliance and versatility of wool, this award-winning festival is a show for everyone interested in making. Over the last weekend of September Yarndale brings together a splendid variety of exhibitors with yarny stuff to sell and thousands of visitors, who come to browse, squish and buy yarn to make.
27th - 28th September 2025
Skipton Auction Mart, Gargrave Road, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 1UD
Knit + Stitch Show Northern Ireland
Bringing together hundreds of crafting workshops, demonstrations, interactive features, curated textile art galleries, as well as over 100 of the leading specialist craft suppliers – this year’s show is bursting at the seams with creativity and innovation. It will feature an enhanced focus on knitting and crochet with a dedicated Yarn Village showcasing local independent yarn dyers and producers and we are delighted to announce that we will be hosting the newly introduced Knit Lounge!
13-16th November 2025
Eikon Exhibition Centre, Balmoral Park, Halftown Rd, Lisburn BT27 5RF
https://www.knitandstitchshow.