Meet the 2022 EAYF Vendors
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80 Skeins
The core of 80 Skeins shop is Latvian Dundaga. It is quite rustic, dyed in small batches, which makes it very unique. One can easily fall in love with this magical, colourful wool, where colours change like in kaleidoscope! 80 Skeins is also a shop to go to buy Icelandic Lopi, mohair, linen and the accessories.
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Adventures In Yarncraft
Passionate about slowing down and embracing the mindfulness of yarncraft, Laura produces beautifully curated collections of her hand dyed yarns, making them easy to mix and match for your next project. She also sells books, project bags and knitting accessories.
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Allium Threads
Naturally dyed yarn, embroidery threads and fibres including solids, semi-solids and fades in different weights and bases. Dyes include items sourced from the Allium Threads dye garden. Project bags, patterns and kits influenced by historic textiles, landscapes and nature.
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Blue Fern Yarns
We have a large selection of yarns, tonals, variegated and speckles, with names and inspiration taken from Norfolk, where we are based, and also nature, plants, beaches and woodlands.
We offer a small selection of handmade project bags, Hiya Hiya needles and crochet hooks and also other yarn crafting notions.
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Caithness Yarns
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Castleview Yarns
Jen is the colour loving creator behind Castle View Yarns. She dreams up and creates all of her yarn, project bags and stitch markers at her home studio in Suffolk. There’s everything from bright, speckled rainbows to deep, moody tonals on a range of delectable bases to tempt you!
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Coastal Colours
Hand dyers of luxury yarns and fibres. Main stockists of Lykke needles and hooks
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Curated Yarn Co.
Curated Yarn Co. specialise in inspiration from the past, with beautiful colourways designed to evoke nostalgia and joy! Offering Yarn, Clubs, Minisets and a range of gorgeous bases in exquisite colourways to inspire your creativity.
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Ducky Darlings
Duckies is now a two person team with Mr DD joining last year. We produce all our hand dyed yarns from our home in Derbyshire, everything from 20g mini skeins to sweater quantities on our various luxury bases.
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Dystopic Fibre
Colourful hand dyed yarns made in my home based in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Elizabeth Pawle
In 2020, Elizabeth Pawle combined her years of work as a fibre artist with her love for knitting to become a hand dyer and her collections of small batch limited edition yarns are sought after by knitters and makers worldwide. She works from her garden studio in rural Suffolk.
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Emily Cross Ceramics
Handmade, wheelthrown ceramic yarnbowls and other tools for fibre artists made by me in my Somerset studio.
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Felt Fusion & Fae Folk Fibres
Felt Fusion brings you lots of fun, variegated, hand dyed yarn, in standard bases, as well as luxurious blends, such as camel and silk. Alongside will be Fae Folk Fibres hand dyed yarn inspired by myths, legends and history of the British Isles and beyond
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Fibre Workshop
Producer of limited edition Norfolk Horn yarn 100% from Norfolk and handyed sustainably with plant dyes.
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Flame Knits
Handmade glass knitting, crochet and spinning accessories.
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Fruitful Fusion
Fruitful Fusion as a hand dyed yarn business was born out of a passion for experimenting with colour and fibre. Ishrat's colourways often contain flavours from her life on three different continents!
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Giddy Aunt Yarns
Sisters Janice and Claire hand dye a wide range of luxurious yarns in their rural studio near Comber, Northern Ireland. Both bring their own unique perspective to the dyeing processes resulting in anything from subtle neutrals to vibrant layered colourways.
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Giddy Yarns
Based in Dundee, Helen of Giddy Yarns creates hand-dyed solid, speckled and stripey yarn, with inspiration coming heavily from literature. You’ll find collections of colourful semi-solids, speckles, and sock sets, as well as fun gobstopper balls of self-striping yarn and plenty of mini skeins for those scrappy projects.
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Hot Butter Yarns
I dye my own yarn, trying to create an extensive range of colours, which I use like a painting palette in order to interpret an idea of certain feelings: heat, pleasure, relaxation, colour, history, landscape and texture. A few of my most recent designs are: Siena, Giotto and Angelico; inspired by 2020 lockdown, Wednesday, October and Judith; inspired by nature and colour, The Fury; inspired by COP26!
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Jibby Roo Sews
We are a family run business on Etsy making a large variety of project bags,tote bags and notion bags. We also make lots of stitch markers and accessories for all your crafting needs.
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Joes Toes Ltd
Amanda from Joe's Toes designs and makes slipper kits, soles and crafty stuff you just won't find anywhere else. Visit Joe's Toes Bazaar as well as our slipper soles and kits. Made from carefully sourced materials with the environment in mind. Stop by and say hello or visit our website!
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Josie Rose
From a simple notions pouch to a customised back pack, as the designer and maker behind Josie rose, it is my passion to create bags that other makers and designers are proud to use for their own beautiful creations.
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Knit Me Sane
Knit Me Sane is a Birmingham based small business producing high quality, hand dyed yarns, project bags and notions. Run by Naomi, with help from husband Matthew, they dye yarn on a variety of fibres and bases. With yarn ranging from lace weight to super chunky, there's something for everyone!
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Knitting Needle Lane
Knitting Needle Lane is Cambridge’s Independent Online Yarn Shop. You will find hand dyed skeins – Manos Del Uruguay and ‘Under The Olive Tree Knits’ within our lovingly stocked shelves. Alongside our famous yarn dye kit & yarn dye Zoom workshops and much more.
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Lilliputwight
LilliputWight is inspired by the coast around my Isle of Wight home. Beachcombed treasures, glass and wood worn smooth by the power of the sea, are made into buttons and stitch markers. Continuous coils of cotton rope are formed into simple project bowls in a range of colours and styles.
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Madrigal Yarn
An independent yarn dyer, specialising in Merino and Merino blends in colours that are vibrant and harmonious and a little bit cheeky!
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Noodle Soup Yarns
Running purely on black coffee and fantasy audiobooks, Charley from Noodle Soup Yarns spends their time in the studio cooking up skeins of sock yarn that are positively bursting with colour that won't leave you hungry for more. Specialising in sock weight yarn of different types, and being a particular lover of varigated colourways, Noodle Soup purvays many options for sock knitters. Starting in 2022, Charley will be showcasing brand new colourways every month based around the year's theme (so far a well kept secret!).
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Pippin Yarns
Pippin Yarns is a small hand dyer run by Emma in Kent. Emma creates yarns, kits and mini bundles inspired by books, films, TV and the environment. Pippin Yarns will bring lots of yarn, kits and bundles to the show and a wide range of large and small sock sets.
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Rosie's Moments
I hand paint ethical sourced, affordable luxury yarns in my Somerset studio. Most of my yarns are individually dyed, but i will dye custom orders. I design exclusive knitting patterns to compliment my yarns, some are sold in kits. I also sell gifts and the popular gift a balls.
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Sheepish Fibre Art
Sheepish Fibre Art is an independent yarn dyer specialising in small batch colourways, inspired by nature and popular culture. We stock our shop with the kind of pretty fuzzy stuff that we would want to use: beautiful yarns, fibres and accessories for the discerning modern knitter, spinner, felter or crocheter.
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Sheepy Things
Textile Artist Alison White’s business Sheepythings, established in the 1980s, offers hand-crafted Sheep inspired products made from British Fleece. Gifts to treat yourself or for a Knitter, Spinner, Weaver or anyone who loves sheep! Sheep earrings to Worry sharing Sheep and Sheep dreamcatchers to wall art mostly featuring sheep and or trees!
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Sincerely Louise
Sincerely Louise is an award winning independent knitting brand, specialising in taxidermy inspired knits. Based in Sheffield, Louise Walker designs a range of fun and quirky knitting kits, patterns and books. From highland cows to hot dog dogs our designs are sure to make you smile.
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Skein and the Stitch
Skein and the Stitch specialises in carrying a full range of luxury bases to suit any of your creative projects, from lace to chunky. In addition to hand dyed yarn, Jess also curates genuine gemstone stitch markers and one of a kind project bags to add a colourful touch to your WIPs.
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Stitchers Tees
Stitchers Tees are a sibling run small business, who create merch for creatives. Screen printing t-shirts, hoodies, sweats and bags with your crafty slogan.
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Suffolk Socks
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Ted Knits UK
TedKnitsUK, established in 2019, is a small batch dyer of luxury yarns based in Surrey. Ted dyes yarns in his home kitchen that are inspired by nature, particularly the changing colours of the seasons, the cosmos, geology and science fiction.
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Telling Yarns
Hand-dyed colours inspired by literature, captured on British heritage wools. Telling Yarns is based on our regeneratively farmed 4th generation family farm in Bedfordshire. Offering low pooling semi-variegated colourways on a range of interesting bases including non-superwash.
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The Camel's Yarn
Hannah, the dyer behind The Camel's Yarn, is based along the North Coast of Cornwall. She takes inspiration from her surroundings to bring you gorgeous hand dyed yarn in her unique colour palette.
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The Corner Of Craft
The Corner of Craft is a business of 2 parts. One is the delicate, beaded stitch markers - made by sewing tiny glass beads together one by one. The other is Chromatic Yarns. Hand dyed yarn in colours inspired by spells and monsters in the table top RPG, Dungeons & Dragons!
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The Crafty Bird
The Crafty Bird is best known as The Pom Pom Lady! I hand make super fluffy faux fur pom poms, as well as hand dying gorgeous squishy yarn. I also make my own unique project bags, design crochet patterns and make hand finished stitch markers.
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The Dye Shack
Beautiful ethically sourced yarns hand dyed in a purpose built studio in the Somerset countryside. Dyed in small batches often taking inspiration from folklore, music, books and nature our yarns are perfect for knitting, crochet and weaving projects.
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The Fibre Fox
Georgie & Ben from The Fibre Fox dye their yarns from their garden based studio in the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds. Their yarns are heavily inspired by nature, music, literature, tv and film. As well as hand dyed yarn, they stock handmade project bags in all shapes and sizes, knitting and crochet books and notions galore!
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The Little Grey Girl
The Little Grey Girl creates high quality handmade products for the modern crafter. Featuring project bags in modern and contemporary fabrics. TLGG bags come in a range of styles, shapes and sizes suitable for all projects. The recent TLGG rebrand has seen an expansion into hand-dyed yarns with minis, semi-solids and irresistible self stripe yarns you’ll need to cast on immediately.
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The Lonely Knitter
The Lonely Knitter began with a YouTube podcast back in 2018, Laura launched Crafter’s Balm with the help of the online knitting community back in 2020 and followed that with her own hand dyed yarn company Bumbling Yarns. Now Laura is organising East Anglia Yarn Festival for the first year in 2022.
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The Lost Sheep Wool Shop
The Lost Sheep Wool Shop is a family run yarn business based in the heart of the Norfolk Broads we pride ourselves on stocking something for everyone, with a wide variety of yarns, needles and notions, books, patterns and so much more.
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The Threshing Barn
The Threshing Barn are your one stop woolly shop, a veritable Aladdin's cave of colour and texture. The home of Spinning, weaving and dyeing equipment, stockists of Ashford, Louet, Lendrum, Majacraft, Gaywool Dyes and Ply Magazine. They stock a variety of yarns, fibres, craft equipment, kits, books and tools.
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The Wool Kitchen
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Truly Hooked
Luxury hand dyed yarns and threads from award winning dyer & designer Verity at Truly Hooked. Vibrant semi-solids, stunning speckles and delicate colourways can be found here, perfect for unique projects and special stitches.
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Velvet Sixpence
Hand dyed fibre & yarns in all the colours of the rainbow. Something for everyone from springy Down breeds to luxurious silk blends, with blended fibre collections & handmade batts
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Watercolours And Lace
Hand-painted yarn in over 600 colourways of Alpaca, Silk, Camelhair, Mohair, Yak and Cashmere, plus quality Wools and blends, from British flocks and/or spun in the UK when possible. We also supply kits and patterns for our own exclusive knit and crochet designs, plus project bags and stitch markers.
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Weku Yarn
Hannah and Lydia are the two sisters behind Weku Yarn. Their yarn is inspired by their Ghanaian heritage, particularly the beautiful and bright traditional outfits and patterns. At Weku you’ll find lots of bright variegated yarns but also some more subtle semi-solids and pastels, something for everyone!
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Wensleydale Long Wool
Wensleydale Longwool produce high quality wool in Aran, DK and 4ply in natural colours and our "Shades of the Dales" , also selling combed tops, kits, patterns, notions, and garments.
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Wool Decanted
we are new producers of small batch, fine British yarn. Our flagship wool yarn, Vintage 20, is a worsted spun blend of wool fibres from Shetland and Bluefaced Leicester sheep. Our newest yarn, Vintage 21, comes from a cross bred flock of Polwarth Romney. Fully traceable from farm to yarn!
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Woollen Wytch
Woollen Wytch creates hand dyed yarns and sustainable knitting notions for adventurous knitters and crafters, including uniquely illustrated stitch markers, pocket gauges and Sock Rulers for the knitter on the go. Made and designed from my kitchen table in Bristol, Woollen Wytch is your friendly local small batch yarn shop.
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Woolly Chic
Woolly Chic specialises in British Wool and ethical yarns. Helen sells a beautiful range of Welsh wool, spun from the fleece of sheep farmed by her cousin, organic cotton and environmentally friendly HeartSpun 4ply yarn. This eco yarn won British Knitting and Crochet Eco/Sustainable Product of the Year in 2020!
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Yarn Addict by Anniken Allis
I'm passionate about empowering knitters to create beautiful hand knits through my patterns, online courses and in person workshops. My colourful yarns have been chosen to complement my beautiful lace and Scandinavian stranded colour work patterns. I have designed for US & UK magazines and yarn companies for 15 years.
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Yarn Unique
Yarn Unique is an indie dyer with a love for rich and saturated colour - whether that is bold neon sock yarns or beautifully jeweled toned Silky Yak yarns!