Learn more about Sewing for Pleasure 2011 and find out about the new fashion challenge event taking place each day at the show...

Join Coats Crafts at Festival of Quilts 2011. We will be showing off our favourite fabrics on the Cotton Patch stand. Find out more...

Read about Amii Louise Briggs, a new textile designer, whose end of year show was sponsored by Coats Crafts

Heading into (we hope) our hottest holiday month, the time is right for totally tropical prints...

One of the UK’s most prominent and respected quilters is opening her studio up to the public again this summer. For four days from Friday 29th July  to Monday 1st August, Pauline Burbidge and her husband, sculptor Charlie Poulsen, will be hosting their 18th Annual Open Studio...

Last year’s Clothes Show Live saw the introduction of an inspirational interactive zone called ‘Sknitch’ where show visitors could come along to learn or brush up on their crafting skills...

In need of a great day out? Then pencil in the Festival of Quilts 2011. For four days in August, 11 to 14th, the NEC in Birmingham will be transformed into textile heaven. The event is run in conjunction with the Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles, so you can expect nothing but the best…

Coats reveals the winner in our Guess the Stitches machine embroidered quilt competition...