It’s time to unravel at the largest yarn festival in the south-east of England.

The now biannual Unravel festival of yarn is at Farnham Maltings over the weekend of February 12 to 14, and the entire building will be filled with lovers of all things woolly.

The Unravel festival brings together knitters, crocheters, weavers, dyers and makers from across the UK and overseas.

The core of the festival is the marketplace, with stalls run by yarn producers, independent yarn dyers, designers and more, selling yarn, accessories, kits and hand-made items.

Exhibitors return year after year - such is the prestige of the event - but there are always new names.

Among them are Zakami, a small-batch dyer from Scotland, and Love Live Give Art, bringing do-it-yourself embroidery kits and patches designed to enhance hand-made knits.

Also new this year is Weku Yarn, a hand-dyed yarn company rooted in Ghanaian heritage, co-founded by Lydia Amartey-Williams and her sister.

Lydia was a finalist in the recent Channel 4 series Game of Wool and will be giving a free talk, Crafting a Creative Path: Knitting, Colour and Game of Wool, on the Saturday at 2.30pm.

Among the other highlights are Lanivendole, known for its unique yarn consciously sourced in Italy; Raw Wool, which crafts yarn using single-origin fibre from its own sheep; and Purlescence, the festival sponsor and renowned for its extensive range of ChiaoGoo needles.

The festival features a full programme of workshops covering everything from knitting techniques to colourwork. Sessions will be led by expert makers including Rachel Ilsey, Annah O’Leary and Zanete Hussain, who will be teaching ‘steeking’, a transformative technique which, unexpectedly, involves cutting knitting.

There are workshops for those wanting to expand their skills, including maths for knitters, solar dyeing, knitwear repair and knitting content creation with Martyn Wait from Knit365.

There is also one on the relatively new, popular technique for creating patterns known as ‘assigned pooling’ which is used by knitters and crocheters.

There are plenty of other workshops for crocheters, including modular crochet, mini lantern making, crochet socks and Tunisian mosaic crochet.

Other textile handcraft workshops include weaving, needle felting, latch hook, embroidery and machine knitting, and there are free talks exploring personal and creative stories from within the knitting community. There will be free participation activities throughout the building.

After a successful launch at last autumn’s Unravel, Knit Night Social returns from 5.30pm on the Friday, hosted by Sophie Hemmings of The Knit Purl Girl and sponsored by Zakami. The social will be an evening of stitching, chatting, a three-course meal and an Unravel goodie bag. Tickets are £44 in advance.

The festival runs from 9.30am to 5pm on the Friday and Saturday, and 10am to 4pm on the Sunday. The cost is £13 per session in advance or £17 on the door (£9 from 1pm Sunday in advance, £12 on the door). There is an advance price of £5 for those aged 18 to 25, and under-18s are admitted free.

For details visit the Farnham Maltings website or call 01252 745444.