Fashion, Embroidery & Stitch is celebrating its 21st birthday and is moving to the UK's most prestigious venue, the NEC Birmingham.

The show will co-locate alongside the popular Sewing for Pleasure & Hobbycrafts shows giving visitors the opportunity to see three great shows.

In addition to all the supplies, materials and ideas you need for your own sewing projects,we have some very exciting free textile workshops with some of the favourite textile artists including Kim Thittichai.

Alison Smith of Alison Victoria School of Sewing will be holding 30-minute sewing workshops showing how to create a more professional finish to your garments.

The workshops are designed for sewers who can already sew and are comfortable with a sewing machine, but want to learn a few tricks of the trade.

The workshops are free, with places for a maximum of 10 people, on a first come, first served basis.

A superb capsule collection of stunning OSCAR and BAFTA winning costumes from the celebrated British film The Duchess starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes. The film traces the controversial life of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who shared strikingly tragic similarities to Diana, Princess of Wales. Although born two centuries apart, both women were Spencers, married to older, wealthy men.

Like Diana, Georgiana suffered a complicated love life, but found consolation in the outpouring of public affection.

Both charismatic women, they became celebrated fashion icons of their time, guaranteeing celebrity status.