There are so many reasons to come to h+h americas 2024 a day early. New programmatic elements like Product Academy, the Content Creator Summit, Masterclasses, and Sample It now ALL occur on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. If you’re arriving on May 1, you’re missing huge opportunities to enrich and expand your business at h+h americas. We’re encouraging everyone to plan to arrive on or before Tuesday to take advantage of our new schedule of events. Get your ticket to the show and plan your travel and hotels now!
Sample It launches on Tuesday, April 30th from 7:00 – 8:30 pm. Gathering retailers, businesses, and craft creators, Sample It offers the chance for attendees to preview and purchase new and upcoming products at great prices in a cash-and-carry event.
With products purchased at Sample It, attendees can create samples for their businesses before products launch so they’re ahead of the curve. If you can’t make it to the event, you can also reach out to the brands participating in Sample It on h+h connect to let them know the products you are interested in.
We’re adding more participants to Sample It every day, but here is the list so far:
Baa Ram Ewe
Baa Ram Ewe have a passion for wool and have made it their mission to share the beautiful, natural properties of this sustainable fiber through a range of luxurious, breed-specific yarns that highlight the difference in qualities from sheep to sheep. They have developed a range of pure wool yarns, carefully curating each shade range and fiber composition, and working with farmers, spinners and dyers in the UK.
Bark Needle Niceties
Bark Beetle Niceties creates DIY felt decor and ornament kits full of loveliness and charm. While kits are designed for beginners, they also suit those looking for the gratification of finishing a project within a few hours, no matter their skill level. Kits include everything needed to complete the project, except scissors, which makes them ideal for specialty yarn, fabric and quilting shops looking to expand their offerings without having to invest in new supplies. All packaging is curbside recyclable.
Blissful Ewe
American Ewe Yarns proudly sources their wool from the Shaniko Wool Co, where sustainability is a way of life, not a slogan. The ranches raising this wool follow Responsible Wool Standards in the management of their flocks and land. The wool is processed and spun in North Carolina and every skein is hand dyed in 24 slightly tonal shades in upstate New York.
Buttermilk Basin
Buttermilk Basin was born from native Minnesotan Stacy West, who grew up surrounded by four generations of makers. Stacy first started a pattern company with her mother (Pitter Patter Pigtail Girls) to help provide an income for their family, then in 2002, Stacy started her own company. A whirlwind of years of hard work, learning, good timing, good people, and GREAT designs came together, and Buttermilk Basin was born! Buttermilk Basin offers vintage inspired designs for the creative soul: patterns, kits, wool, needlework supplies, fabric, hand dyed floss and buttons, fibers, sewing books, Simply Vintage Magazines and more!
Everything Mary
Since 2007, Everything Mary has provided their customers thoughtfully-designed, well-crafted storage solutions to help organize their homes and their lives. Their stylish, clever storage solutions help sewing and scrapbooking crafters get and stay organized.
Gazzal Iplik San. ve Tic. Ltd. Sti.
Gazzal is an internationally renowned design-led luxury hand knitting yarn and industrial yarn company, with 40 years of experience in yarn production. They are an ethically conscious brand, with an emphasis on creating luxury, premium yarns sourced from natural fibers.
Ikigai Fiber
Ikigai Fiber is a yarn and embellishment company based in Southern California, owned and operated by Pam Sasaki-Powers, a knitwear designer with experience in various publications and independent projects. The company was launched in 2019 and offers a range of products including yarn, faux fur pom-poms, buttons, jewels and mini skeins, as well as patterns for knitting, crochet and embroidery projects.
Kiriki Press Ltd.
Kiriki Press was launched in December 2012 with seven embroidery patterns, and the collection has grown over the years and is currently expanding to include a range of other DIY products. The company has been featured in Uppercase, Canadian Living, Chatelaine, Bust Magazine, Homespun, as well as many other print publications and craft blogs.
Knitbaahpurl LLC
Knitbaahpurl’s sheep offer playful, gentle, and silly reflections on human experience. The images celebrate the charm of the hand-drawn illustration and continue to be printed on specially chosen papers that are lovely to write on. In addition to prints, greeting cards, and our Christmas Collection, our images appear on mugs, wine glasses, notebooks, gift tags, t-shirts, and more.
KnitPro & Lantern Moon
KnitPro is one of the leading global manufacturers of Knitting Needles, Crochet Hooks and related accessories. KnitPro offers a wide range of products and constructs products with various new-age materials such as resin-infused, densified FSC-certified wood, carbon fiber, stainless steel, aluminum, etc.
Lewis & Irene Fabrics USA
Lewis & Irene is a British textile company founded in 2013. Focusing on craft cottons, Lewis & Irene’s fabrics pull inspiration from nature and a love of the countryside. The family-owned company is dedicated to sustainable cotton production and manufacturing and can be found in retailer shops around the world.
Malabrigo Yarn
Malabrigo is a family-owned yarn company located in Uruguay and Peru developing incredibly soft, colorful hand-dyed yarns. Malabrigo products are made out of the softest fibers available with color palettes inspired by nature, as well as landscapes, places, art and day-to-day life.
Manos Del Uruguay / Fairmount Fibers
The Manos Cooperatives were founded in 1968, begun by five women whose goal was to develop economic opportunities for women in a country where there were, and are still, few opportunities for work.
They began modestly, by selling handcrafts at local shops and the annual agricultural show in Montevideo. In time spinning, dyeing, weaving and knitting became the focus of the Coop’s efforts. Each purchased skein of Manos del Uruguay yarn helps a woman support her family. Each skein is signed so crafters know who made their yarn, and from which village it came.
MCreativeJ
Melissa Galbraith is the fiber artist behind MCreativeJ. Drawing on her love of nature, Melissa creates whimsical and modern embroidery patterns and kits. She loves making the art of hand embroidery easy and approachable with her embroidery kits, patterns, and workshops. Melissa’s embroidery kits and patterns make it easy to learn a new craft for makers of all skill levels. She enjoys seeing makers fall in love with the needle arts, especially that magical ah-ha moment of learning something new.
Mitchell Wool Company
The Mitchell family began the Mitchell Wool Company because they had 53 acres that they wanted to put to use to enrich Michigan soil. They fell in love with their flock and now feel like they work for them! Their desire is to grow yarn with kindness. The sheep for their yarns live on their farm, their neighbor grows the hay, the grain is local, their local mill spins the yarn 40 miles away. They also dye the yarns with plants mostly grown on the farm.
Molly Klein Design
Molly Klein Design creates hand-dyed yarns, project bags, DPN cozies, stitch markers, soaps and more with love, attention to detail, and quality materials.
Palmer Yarn Co.
Palmer Yarn Co. crafts rich, subtle, wearable yarns thoughtfully curated and dyed by hand. Palmer Yarn Co. creates monthly yarn clubs as well as yarn kits to craft popular patterns from leading knitwear designers.
Patch Abilities
Patch Abilities is a pattern company specializing in creating “approachable patterns that invite beginners into this soul-satisfying hobby of quilting.” Patch Abilities has a love for small applique designs (6” x 22, 6” x 12, etc.), with minimal basic sewing, and simple designs to applique, so a beginner can do it and not “screw it up.” Patterns feature simple yet complete instructions (reversed, bold templates and even binding directions), so that anyone can pick it up and create the cute design without frustration, no matter their skill level.
Sew Steady
The staff of Sew Steady® works together every day with one mission to pursue, one goal in mind—to improve and enhance your sewing experience. Sew Steady® was founded in the early 90s, and purchased by TipBar Incorporated in 2009. The Sew Steady® product line consists of portable acrylic extension tables, cabinet inserts, and sewing accessories designed and customized to fit each individual sewing machine. In April of 2015, Sew Steady proudly became the exclusive USA manufacturer and distributor of Westalee Design® tools. In 2019 proudly purchased Westalee Design to be the worldwide manufacturer and owner of Westalee Design. There are more than 800 items in the Westalee Design® product line, including the exciting, new-to-the-industry Quilting Ruler Work Feet, more than 600 Ruler Designs and tools for domestic and longarm machines, and more than 200 Patchwork Tools.
Steller Handcrafted Goods
Steller Handcrafted Goods began in 2009 with a pair of mittens. Today the company has grown to more than a dozen artisans with products in gift shops and boutiques across the country. Steller Handcrafted Goods love the idea of taking something old and making it new. Upcycling is a central part of the business. After foraging for unique sweaters at thrift stores, garage sales, antique shops, and estate sales, they reimagine how their thrifty finds can be reborn.
The Loom Bangkok Company Limited
With over 12 years of experience in weaving work, instruction and weaving looms, the LOOM can make weaving easy and fun for everyone who wants to enjoy it as a hobby. Not only providing weaving work and practice courses, The LOOM also provides the full range of quality weaving looms. The LOOM also produce their own yarns from natural fibers in a wide selection including 100% silk, silk-cotton blend, organic cotton, hemp, micromodal, etc.
Trailhead Yarns
Trailhead Yarns crafts premium hand-dyed thread for the modern hand-stitcher. Trailhead brings the indie-dyed world to embroidery, quilting, and visible mending. Get inspired with over 190 colors and a sustainable alternative to embroidery kits, The Un-Kit exclusively from THY.
Valdani Hand-Dyed Colorfast Threads
Valdani Inc. is the North American partner of Valdani Prod. Romania, the Canadian-owned thread-manufacturing plant. Since 1998, Valdani has produced and offered the most beautiful, decorative quality threads for sewing, quilting, piecing, embroidery and needlecraft, for both hand and home sewing machines, as well as commercial machine and industrial usage.
Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous Fibers
Based in southern Vermont, Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous hand-dye yarns, ribbons, and fibers. They offer a range of unique products such as knitting and crochet kits, mini skein collections, felt bags, and unique put-ups of yarn and fiber.
