Marent Crafts were so excited to be part of The Stitch Festival this year at the Islington Design Center, we were on stand number H59! The show was very busy and we had the chance to meet many lovely customers. We really enjoyed listening and hearing about all of the impressive makes that were underway with buyers at the show.
We had lots of products that stood out from the crowds, buyers were pleased that they could get all their dressmaking and sewing products in one place.
Such a great experience to meet so many people in one place with lots of fun fuelled events taking place.
Marent Crafts were able to hold a daily prize give away on the stand exclusively from Vlieseline.
Two of our happy prize winners!
Here were some show highlights!
- A trend for neons at the moment, our neon wool range sold out and our customers absoloutly loved our neon thread sets!!!
Something to brighten up these rainy days!!
- Our Bias Bindings were also a hit as many customers said they find binding hard to come by and we have a huge selection of colours and great prices, so that was fantastic to hear!!
https://www.marentcrafts.com/product-category/haberdashery/bias-binding/
- Having John Cole-Morgan on our Stand!!
We were joined on our Marent Crafts stand by John Cole-Morgan who did a fantastic job of demonstrating the Vlieseline range for quilting.
“He is polite, friendly, funny and knows what he was talking about!!! “
Quilters highlights from the Vlieseline craft range were the quilters grid, quick screen triangle and quick screen square. The products are all solutions to help quilters in their projects achieve the neat and speedy results they are after!!
Vlieseline Quilters Grid
Fusible nonwoven for watercolor quilts with printed-on 1-inch-grid lines; brown and fine printed lines, 90cm x 15m
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Vlieseline Quick Screen Triangle
Interfacing with printed grid in an 60° angle, 90cm x 15m
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Vlieseline Quick Screen Square
Interfacing with printed 1×1 cm grid in an 90° angle, 90cm x 30m
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Quilt Wadding
Shop our volume fleece range for the best fleece, wadding, batting, and more
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Dress Making Sponsors
Marent Crafts were also the proud Sponsors of the Dressmaking Competition that took place on Sunday!!!
The Dressmaking Competition was open to all contemporary dressmakers who wanted the opportunity to share their creations on The Stitch Festival stage.
The competition featured six categories this year, including a NEW for 2023 Menswear category.
This year’s incredible judging panel included, David Morrish of Kingfly Embroidery, Hand Knit Designer Jeanette Sloan, Josie Hawes – founder of Fabric Godmother and Elisalex de Castro Peake, co-found of By Hand London!
Winners of each Category
Best in Competition (Upcycled/Repurposed category) Regina Fox-Galassi
Knitwear / Crochet Gail Jones
Eveningwear Ksenia Semirova
Childrenswear (Ages 2-14) Tetiana Shelepun
Upcycled/Repurposed Davide Berardi,
Menswear Michał Wilamowski
Judging taking place Josie Hawes – founder of Fabric Godmother & Elisalex de Castro Peake, co-found of By Hand London
Congratulations to the winners of the Dressmaking Competition this year! We’ve loved sponsoring and promoting creativity and we can’t wait to see what they get up to next!
Marent Crafts were thrilled to be part of all of these exciting creative events and look forward to the next Craft Show at the festival of quilts this year!!