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Fish Creek Tea Cosy festival takes place in Fish Creek Memorial Hall and various locations across Fish Creek from 16-24 May 2026

From 16-24 May, Fish Creek celebrates the Tea Cosy Festival that wraps the whole town in wool, serves it with jam and cream, and makes life just a little cosier.

By news@gippsland - 1st April 2026 - Back to News

If you’ve never experienced the magic of a tea cosy festival, prepare to be charmed by wool, whimsy and well-dressed teapots. Across 9 nippy days in May, the biennial favourite Fish Creek Tea Cosy Festival is rolling into town for a cosy celebration of creativity, community and farm-inspired flair.

Fish Creek Tea Cosy Festival runs 16–24 May 2026 at Memorial Hall and various locations throughout Fish Creek

Fish Creek Tea Cosy Festival runs 16–24 May 2026 at Memorial Hall and various locations throughout Fish Creek

Tea Cosy Festival

The festival’s centrepiece is the iconic Tea Cosy Exhibition, where makers from across Australia showcase their most imaginative creations. It’s less "nan’s knitting basket" and more "tiny woollen works of art". Add in art exhibitions, live music, themed displays and a steady rotation of Devonshire Teas, and Fish Creek becomes something of a living, breathing storybook - one where every corner has been stitched, brewed or baked into place.

Following a hugely successful 2024 event that drew more than 9,000 visitors, this year’s theme, Life on the Farm, brings a distinctly Gippsland flavour to the festivities. Expect woollen reimaginings of gumboots and tractors, sheepdogs and scarecrows.

Festival features tea cosy exhibition, knitting workshops with Pru Raymond, high tea, markets, music, and town-wide exhibits celebrating creativity

Festival features tea cosy exhibition, knitting workshops with Pru Raymond, high tea, markets, music, and town-wide exhibits celebrating creativity

Program highlights

The program is as warm and welcoming as the tea itself.

Tea cosy exhibition

The heart of the festival is the revered Tea Cosy Exhibition, where talented knitters, felters, crocheters, hobbyists, artists and crafters from across Australia transform teapots into miniature worlds. Some are intricate, some are playful, some toe the line of "is this still a tea cosy?" - all on display for a gold coin donation. Beyond the Hall, you’ll find free exhibits dotted throughout town, turning a casual wander into a full-blown cosy crawl.

Knitting workshops

Join knitting legend Pru Raymond for hands-on workshops: Get full on with Fair Isle, Jump feet first into brioche fabric, or knit the perfect sock at these 3-hour structured workshops.

Sunday afternoon high tea

Sun 24 May, 2-4pm, Fish Creek Bowls Club | This isn’t about your hip new fusion cuisine - this is about plate after plate of scrumptious baked morsels, presented with love and skill. Round out your visit with art exhibitions, a community market, music, and more Devonshire teas than you can politely refuse, and you’ve got yourself a weekend (or nine days) well spent.

Pictures from Visit Gippsland website.


Source: http://gippsland.com/

Published by: news@gippsland.com



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