Make Joy is a one-day celebration of yarn and friendship for knitters, crocheters and makers. Featuring a curated marketplace of local makers from London and further afield with hand-dyed and rare breed yarns, notions and more. Enjoy free talks from designers and makers within the craft industry, and enjoy a coffee or prosecco while making new friends in the Maker’s Lounge.

Talks are included with admission to Make Joy and will take place in Coopers Studio.

11am Storytelling Through Hand Knitting with Sylvia Watts-Cherry

In each stitch that we knit, the yarn colours we use tell a story and tell stories about us. Knitting can also be a way of preserving cultural records and passing them down through generations.
In this presentation, Sylvia shares her creative journey and show she communicates her sense of identity through hand knitting and embraces the art of storytelling through her designs.

12.45pm Overcoming Adversity Through Crochet: In Conversation with Helda Panagary

Craft brings comfort to so many of us and sees us through the best and worst of times. In this interview-style discussion, Inside Crochet designer Helda will share how crochet and a love of colour has helped her overcome challenges and led to a career in design.

2.30pm Wild & Woolly x Knit15 Presents: Knitters’ Question Time

From straightening out your wobbly rib to re-sizing advice. From finding the right pattern for your knitting mood to making friends with colour. From locating your lost knitting mojo to puzzling out intarsia on a seamless sweater, we’ve all got questions we wish we had answers to. They may be big, small, technical, spiritual, radical, practical, or even slightly ridiculous.

We welcome them all!

Knitters’ Question Time is your chance to pose the questions you’ve been aching to ask and get answers from 4 expert knitters with a combined knitting age of over a hundred sweaters.

Email questions to kqt@wildandwoollyshop.co.uk

Click here to see the list of exhibitors.

This link takes you to the Champagne & Qiviut webpage.

Make Joy is partnering up with the very fine folks at Craft Forward for a wee make-a-long ahead of the show!

Consider this your notice to knit or crochet a square (or two or three!) for their Blankets for London initiative! We’ll be collecting the squares at Make Joy and Craft Forward founder Elena will be on hand 12-2pm to answer questions about the great work that they do!

Squares can be knit or crocheted in any weight of yarn as long as they are 20cm x 20cm and with ends woven in (PLEASE!). All the squares will be joined up (along with lots of others!) into blankets at The Big Cathedral Knit on Sat 30 November at Southwark Cathedral.

How many do you think we can collect?! Let’s gooooo!