Gallery

Here are some pictures of projects made by our teachers, students and customers ... be ready to be inspired!

Wendy's Gumnut Babies

Wendy comes to Bev Tully's Monday embroidery class. She came in with an idea for her first grand-daughter, to make her a blanket with Gumnut Babies.

New Grandson Huey

We welcomed baby Hubert in July! He is Ida and Percy's little brother, another happy baby! Well done Lach & Emma, he's beautiful!!

I made this quilt for Ida's 3rd birthday - at the time her favourite book was Claris, so I embroidered the cover and used it in the quilt ..... not sure if she's still a favourite now haha!! It features a lot of her favourite things, including Spot who's hiding under the flap!!

Vintage Table Cloths

The large cloth has been stitched by Betty in Monday's sewing group. It was a very old kit Betty found, the design already stamped onto the linen, which is the most beautiful quality! Betty has brought it to life!!

The lily cloth was stitched by Margaret, a customer I have known for many years! I think the kit was her mother's, so again the quality of linen is beautiful. I sewed the lace around the edge for her.

Christmas at Craftpaks

Around the Shop

I have great fun creating different displays for the shop! All the vintage linen you see in the cloths and doilies is either my mother's or some of the many, many beautiful items ladies give me - I treasure them!! You will see jars of buttons, old wooden cotton reels etc all around the shop!

Celia's Thread Painting

Celia comes to Bev Tully's embroidery class on a Monday.

Thread painting is her absolute favourite style of embroidery! She brings in a picture, says to Bev I'd like to stitch this next and away they go!

When it's finished, she comes to my patchwork class and we make them up as cushions.

They are beautifully stitched Celia!

Tina's Bunny cot quilt

Tina made this cot quilt in some of our gorgeous flannels, in the Thursday morning patchwork class.

Biggest Morning Tea

Time to bring out the Royal Albert!

Even with all the lockdowns from Covid, we still managed to host the Biggest Morning Tea raising money for cancer research!

Our beautiful Percy

Such a happy baby!

Ina's birds

This stunning wallhanging was stitched by Ina in the Thursday afternoon class. She purchased it as a kit at a craft show a few years ago. The birds and flowers are applique and stitched with blanket stitch. The quilting is fantastic - done by Christine at Edge-to-Edge quilting.

Margaret's dinosaur

Margaret has been a customer for many years and does a lot of embroidery at home - she stitched this dinosaur for 'the drawer' and future great-grand children.

I think there's a few of us who will qualify .....

I stitched this cross stitch years ago - it seems its perfect for display in the patchwork shop hmmm!

Lois's plaid quilt

Lois made this cozy flannel quilt for her grandson - who follows Essendon - in the Monday morning patchwork class. The pattern is great if you're just starting your patchwork journey!

Stunning Jacobean embroidery stitched by Marj!

Marj comes to the Friday afternoon embroidery class with Ana Mallah. Here's a couple of her completed embroideries - beautiful Marj!

Mum's machine - bought in 1950! Great for displays!

Robyn's Log Cabin

Robyn made this quilt in the Monday morning class, plus an extra block, so naturally a cushion to match! I need to run a class on doing buttonholes though!!!

Melanie's Blue & White quilt

Melanie (she is our Queen of kits!) made this beautiful quilt for one of her sons - it looks great! The quilting design looks good too! Melanie comes to the Wednesday afternoon patchwork class.

Verna's quilt

Verna made this quilt for her little grand-daughter's 1st bed. Verna comes to the thursday morning patchwork class.

Jan's Cat quilt

Jan comes to our Thursday night patchwork class and has very kindly lent me her cat quilt that was recently completed - it has all been blanket stitched by hand, which Jan loves doing! It is a Claire Turpin design (see our online patterns), although we went with straight blocks, instead of the angled ones. Thanks Jan!! She's done the dog quilt too .... and the lama's!!

Shop improvements during Covid!

Our new display cupboad for front of the shop - it makes displaying fabrics, patterns etc so much easier!! And it holds so much!!

Thank you to Dale of Johnson Designs for creating this for me!

Carmel's Butterfly Blanket

Carmel stitched this blanket in Bev Tully's Monday embroidery class - its beautiful! Check out her signature!!

You've just gotta love ribbons & roses! .... oh, and a dog!

Is there anything better?! Beautiful hand-dyed Maytime silk ribbons and roses that smell divine!

Libby's version of the sheep pattern!

Ooooh, look what we've got!! A beautiful baby boy, Percy!

Ida's little brother! Grandma's a lucky girl!!

Marj's Australian Native Blanket

Marj stitched this during our many lockdowns, with Ana's guidance when we were able to have classes. There wasn't any piping in a suitable colour, so we used 1/4 inch ribbon!! Needless to say it was a challenge for me to back, but it looks awesome!

RCH Group

These wonderful ladies meet at the shop each fortnight to make items to sell and raise money for the Royal Children's Hospital. As you can imagine it's been slim pickings the last 2 years, but they keep coming!

Window displays are from Easter 2021 raising money for the Good Friday Appeal. As we hadn't been able to have the usual stalls at the hospital due to Covid, I had only RCH items in the window for 2 weeks.

Ho Ho Ho!

I saw this idea in Saville Row, London .... Mum's crystal jam jar!

Getting creative with the window display

Yet another unfinished stitchery! The cups and saucers were my mother's, the cloths and antique lace have been donated to me for displaying in the shop. The ribbon roses were for a project that I can't remember!!

Just another unfinished project of mine!

I started this about 12 years ago! Its a gorgeous bag designed by Bronwyn Hayes. There's 7 stitcheries I think, so I'd better get a move on!

Window Display

The front window's always changing!

This window display features some of my collection of goodies from days gone by - old Simplicity patterns my mother used to make my sisters' dresses, some beautiful cloths one of my customers gave me, old laces and my sister's sewing basket she had at school ( she would have been 70 this year!)

My Scrappy Flannel Quilt

The only rule was all the fabric for the top had to come out of the cupboard .... and it did!

The square is made up of 4 Northwind blocks

A Platter of Pincushions

How's yours looking?

Royal Children's Hosp Ladies

These are some of the ladies who donate their time to making articles for the Children's Hosp. Everything we make is sold and the money goes to the Penguin Ward at the hospital. We meet every Wednesday fortnight and anyone is welcome. Last year we raised $68,000. This article was published in the Maroondah Leader in 2019.

Great job girls!!