The Woolly Good Gathering is a new Edinburgh event celebrating knitters, crocheters, weavers, spinners and fibre lovers with a festival of crafts, workshops, talks, food, music and good company.
The Woolly Good Gathering includes a Marketplace in the large, light-filled rooms of Summerhall, with plenty of space for visitors to mingle, chat to vendors and squish yarn and fibre.
Shop some of your favourite indie dyers, yarn producers, craft suppliers and other fibre businesses, all under one roof including Tribe Yarns, Ginger Twist Studio, Uist Wool, Ripples Crafts, Sew Yarnilicious, Iolair Yarn, The Journal of Scottish Yarns, Moorit, Zakami Yarns, and many more.
Workshops & Talks
With so many interesting vendors and local fibre artisans and experts to learn from there will be a programme of workshops and talks in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Dean’s Office and other venues around Summerhall, led by expert tutors including Woolly Originals, Sylvia Watts-Cherry, Di Gilpin, TJFrog, Helen Chatterton, and Samira Hill, amongst others.
The Neighbourhood is the dedicated community and social space. With plenty of room to sit and knit and crochet, and make new friends, it is also home to live music, the café, and community stalls. A few local organisations will join us there to showcase their work including the Edinburgh Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers, and the Shrub Co-op’s visible mending needle felting surgery. The Neighbourhood will also be the base for our super-relaxed craft night of dreams on Friday evening.
Food
Summerhall has its own café and pub, which will be supplemented by lots of coffee and cake plus courtyard food trucks booked for the event, AND The Neighbourhood café.
Fri 26 Apr 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Woolly Good Gathering is a new Edinburgh event being held on the 26th and 27th April 2024 to celebrate craft and fibre lovers with a festival of crafts, workshops, talks, food, music and good company.
Fri 26 Apr 2024 @ 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
This is a project-based class providing an introduction to Fair Isle knitting using dpns. You will produce a small sample in the round which can be made into a cover for a small lavender bag while learning how to knit with yarn in both hands, read charts and other general techniques.
Fri 26 Apr 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Join Tania of TJFrog to learn how to make a beautiful Dorset Button bouquet brooch using traditional Dorset Button techniques and French knots. The finished brooch, which uses a hollow brass ring and TJFrog Shorelines & Strata double knit Dorset wool, is approximately 4.5cm in diameter.
Fri 26 Apr 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
The Modern Crafter is sisters Rachel & Siobhan who hand design punch needle and embroidery kits. Punch Needle is like drawing with wool, it’s also mindful and joyful! With the punch needle tool and a stash of yarn you can achieve lots of fun projects from wall art to interior items such as cushions.
Fri 26 Apr 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Join us for the craft night of your dreams! Enjoy laid-back live music, including a performance from theatre maker, musician and yarn dyer, Charmaine Wombwell of Yarn Tings, and get ready for an unforgettable bingo game! With plenty of food choices and a fully stocked bar, secure your spot now as tickets are very limited.
Sat 27 Apr 2024 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Cyanotype is a very old photography technique which needs only UV light and some small objects to create a stunning image. In this workshop Jeni will give you a brief history of the technique, showing examples of their own as inspiration.
Sat 27 Apr 2024 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
The Woolly Good Gathering is a new Edinburgh event being held on the 26th and 27th April 2024 to celebrate craft and fibre lovers with a festival of crafts, workshops, talks, food, music and good company.
Sat 27 Apr 2024 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Elizabeth will talk about Shetland lace knitting and the Shetland Hap. In Shetland dialect a hap is a shawl, these have been knitted for centuries in the islands. They are used for everyday wear, weddings and also christenings. She will be showing examples of her own and her mother’s lace knitting and haps.
Sat 27 Apr 2024 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
In this workshop, we will explore intarsia knitting and learn tips for keeping your yarns organised, maintaining your tension, calculating yarn needs and more. You will get a free pattern to practise your skills to make your own Aggie cushion cover.
Sat 27 Apr 2024 @ 10:30 am - 1:30 pm
From join-as-you-go, to more decorative crochet borders, discover beautiful and effective ways to join your crochet motifs. During the workshop, we’re aiming to try 3 different techniques and students will be given worksheets with 2 additional joins to try at home.
Sat 27 Apr 2024 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Balmerino Farm in Fife are developing Scottish merino sheep especially for their fine, luxurious wool, so soft it can be worn next to the skin. Hear farmer Rachel Crawford share the story of how this family farm is being transformed from intense arable to organic livestock farming with a deep rooted ambition to boost insect and bird populations.
Sat 27 Apr 2024 @ 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
In this workshop, tutor Elizabeth Williamson will take you through the basic stitches and techniques of Shetland lace knitting. At the end of the session, you will have a swatch of the Rosebud pattern on a garter base.
Sat 27 Apr 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Explore natural dyes while creating a speckled sock blank that you can use to make identical socks (or more)! Using local and seasonal flowers, leaves, roots and plant extracts, we’ll begin exploring the key aspects of working with natural dyes: fibre preparation, sourcing dyestuffs, setting dyes, safe dyeing practice and other tips and tricks and explore some of the many dyeplants found in our local landscapes
Sat 27 Apr 2024 @ 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Learn to knit beautiful socks from the toe up with Samira Hill! In this workshop, participants will learn all the techniques required to knit a beautiful pair of socks, using either double pointed needles or the Magic Loop technique, as well as the advantages of using the toe-up method.
Sat 27 Apr 2024 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Sarah will present a 60-minute talk with a Q&A session, covering all that you need to know to start plant dyeing small amounts of yarn in your kitchen on a limited budget. A workbook will be available to purchase as part of the talk for you to take away and use as your own dyeing diary.