This is a bi-annual show which takes place at the Royal Bath and West Showground in April and October and I went with friends to visit last Friday for the October show. This has multiple crafts from papercrafting through to sewing, felting, quilting and embroidery and local groups exhibit here.
We did a mini workshop making felted soaps with Tracey of Felt Sew Somerset which was a lot of fun. Mine was orange which has a citrus fragranced soap inside the felted wool with a darker orange silk thread running through.
After lunch I had a look around the textile hall which was to side of the main hall which has quilting and embroidery displays. Some traders, but not many as there was also a quilt show that weekend in Malvern so it take away many quilt shopping opportunities.
There were kaleidoscope quilts displayed by Avalon Quilters
A couple of knitted scenes by charities
This was raising funds for the local hospice
And this was for Sue Ryder charity. In both cases I did leave a donation for taking the photos
These fabulously decorated bras - just to prove that patchwork doesn't need to be a quilt. This was made by ladies taught by Heather Fowler.
There were also 50 embroidered hearts from the Embroiderer's Guild
Although busy to begin with the show quietened off towards mid afternoon. It was interesting to watch some of the paper craft demonstrations. I don't think that the textile traders did as well as the paper crafting ones as not all were in the main hall and some were on the mezzanine floor above which wasn't that busy. But it made for a nice day out with friends and the journey from Poole is not too lengthy either.
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