Introducing our sponsors
The Big Wool Show 2021 is here! I am so excited to introduce you to our fabulous sponsors. Psst - make sure you check out their stalls on the weekend, a little birdie told me there might be some pretty exciting things in store for you…
On Saturday morning at 9am The Big Wool Show will be LIVE and there is so much to explore - free classes, interviews, the marketplace, and don’t forget to tune in to our live stream so you can chat to our sponsors & stallholders!
Cat runs Cat & Sparrow Fibres Australia and she enjoys working with natural materials. She dyes her fibres and yarn in her Melbourne based home studio in small batches, and she’s happy to take custom orders!
There’s something special about spinning your own yarn and using it to make your own clothing or other items that are useful, or simply for fun. Each make is a journey, a process, and each holds a story - a yarn of creativity.
Introducing Anna and Mike from Stitchcraft & Wizardry! We are a husband and wife team, both as mad as a box of frogs, but in a good way. We both have our own different craft interests and we support each other in those pursuits. We inspire each other and are constantly coming up with new fun, practical and sometimes mad designs. We dye our own yarn, make project bags and stitch markers along with hand-turned crochet hooks, nostepinnes and more, all from artisan woods.
Say hello to Isobel & Nick from Great Ocean Road Woollen Mill! Using Australia's finest fibres, we create luxurious yarns and knitwear, in the hinterland of the Great Ocean Road. We are a small, family operated business producing small batch yarn and knits using superfine merino, alpaca, cotton and polwarth. We are 100% Australian and the only spinning mill in Australia certified by Ethical Clothing Australia. In fact nearly all of our fibre comes from Western Victoria!
Meet Katrina from Pirate Purl Yarns! From her small studio in the harbourside city of Newcastle, Katrina, AKA Pirate Purl Yarns, hand-dyes small-batch artisanal colourways on Australian yarn and wool tops.
Katrina is relentlessly environmentally conscious, constantly looking for process improvements that reduce the impact of her process and products.
This extends to a short supply chain, with farmers in Victoria, and supply chain transparency that values the contribution of everyone in the chain from farmer to you.
Hi! June here, I am a dyer and owner of Fortune Yarn Company, a small hand dyed yarn business I started from my home in Adelaide in 2019, I am now currently working and dyeing yarn from my home in Darwin, NT. I take my inspirations from my surroundings mostly in nature, books, paintings and artists.
Hi there! My name is Danni and I am the hands behind HalfBaked HandDyed.
I hand spin, hand dye and hand knit. I love working with colour and love seeing what my talented customers make from the stuff I make!
I hope you enjoy crafting with my products as much as I enjoy making them. If you have any questions or would like to order more of a product than I have listed in my shop, please let me know.
Meet Wendy from Beersheba Farm! Nestled in a picturesque valley in North-East Victoria, Beersheba Farm is home to several breeds of sheep: Merino, two rare breed stud flocks (English Leicester and Drysdale) and Castledale, a new breed we are developing specifically for the handcraft market to provide an Australian alternative to some popular imported wool types.
Focusing on the hand-spinner and fibre-crafter, our aim is to supply home-grown quality raw fleece, hand-dyed wool and select Australian yarns. All the processing of our wool is done in Australia. Provenance is guaranteed.
Now let’s meet Clare and Paul, the owners of Fibre Arts Shed! We own and operate a mini mill and produce our own line of natural and dyed roving - our FAST Fibre Collection - that is certified 100% Australian by the Australian Fibre Collective.
We also stock a huge range of natural animal, plant and silk fibres as well as commercially dyed Merino and Corriedale tops, blended tops and luxury undyed yarns. We are an Ashford dealer and a stockist of the Oxford Punch Needles and Kraftkolour Landscapes Dyes.
We also offer a fibre processing service for wool and alpaca fleeces with no minimum weight.
Introducing a truly innovative business, all about sustainability - Alasdair from Wool 2 Yarn! Wool 2 Yarn is a small bespoke textile business that specialises in Alpaca, Merino and Silk fibres.
We process the fleece from Alpacas and sheep into luxurious yarn, rovings and garments. From shearing to shelf we do every single part of the process thus creating a truly local product.
Our latest innovation is to recycle textiles into unique yarn and garments.
100% Australian Grown Australian Spun Australian Made.
Whether your craft is spinning, knitting, crochet, weaving, felting - or anything else fibre craft - I know you will find some new & unique items at The Big Wool Show this weekend! Stash enhancement engage!!!
