Picklemouse Corner
Shop 4/152 Megalong St
Tel: 4784 2854
Picklemouse Corner is in the cottage in the middle of the main Leura carpark, near the nursery. It's a smaller shop crammed with fabrics. One of the shop's specialities is kits for simple, effective quilt designs such as a flannel churn dash. Most fabrics are country or thirties in style - Aunt Grace and Thimbleberries and Debbie Mumm are among the design styles stocked here. They'll cut fat quarters if asked - with space at a premium they don't have lots precut. Down the corridor the shop stocks a room of gift products - bears and mugs and so forth. Another room is full of haberdashery. The staff are helpful and cheerful. The home-made fudge is wonderful - I can recommend the passionfruit and chocolate varieties! There are also some cross-stitch and doll kits/patterns available here too, and jars of home-made jam.
Leura itself has many interesting shops for browsing - gifts, antiques, crafts, woodwork, homewares and so on. Megalong Books is a great bookshop. You have a choice of cafes for lunch or tea, while the artisan bread shop near Megalong Books has extraordinary breads. Parking can be a challenge on weekends as Leura attracts many visitors.
SPRINGWOOD
The Vintage Patch
We specialise in patchwork, decorative art, crafts, and birdhouses and quilt hangers.
www.thevintagepatch.com.au
Owners: Lyn and Roger
GLENBROOK
Post Office Patchwork
33 Ross St, Glenbrook NSW 2773
(phone) ph: 02- 4739 9555, fax 02- 4739 9111
(mailorder) Absolutely.
Open seven days: weekdays 10am-5pm, weekends
10am - 4pm
Rhonda Pearce, the proprietor, has a wonderful eye for
fabric, and a great way with people, so this shop is
always a pleasure to visit. She buys selectively across
a number of ranges, (and for some, buys a bolt of everything)
so there's something to suit everyone's
tastes in fabric, and the shop is spacious, so you can
see the fabrics well. She cuts the fabric (doesn't rip it)
and as well as an extensive range of fat quarters, she'll
cut fat eighths too. There are always charm packs, and
$2.50 FQs and a table of $10 specials. The shop also
stocks an interesting range of buttons and other useful
quilty items, gift lines (eg. bears and dolls). New fabrics
are arriving all the time - I find it hard to leave without
something irresistible! There are classes and workshops, and
always quilts on the wall for inspiration, most made by Rhonda,
who is both knowledgeable and wise about quiltmaking techniques
and working with fabric.
This shop is housed in the old PO building in Glenbrook.
Parking is easy, there are
cafes nearby, and the park at the top of the street has a playground
and toilet facilities.
BLACKHEATH
Ribbons and Rainbows
Govetts Leap Rd
There is so much in this shop good if you have some ideas of what you want, but
if just browsing can be overwhelming. I went once to look and then back to buy.
Has a lot of Debbie Mumm. .
(2)For those of you who don't know it, it's in a cottage just a short distance down from the shopping centre, down the road to Govatts Leap. There's a little plank footpath with a canopy
over it in from the road to the veranda. There's always a bargain to be found on the veranda and inside is a treasure trove of quilting fabrics, various prices. And always a cheerful, helpful assistant or two in attendance. In the back rooms is a wide variety of embroidery supplies too.
KATOOMBA
The Stitching Post
100 Lurline Street Katoomba NSW 2782
phone = 02 4782 5809
email = karen@thestitchingpost.com.au
website = www.thestitchingpost.com.au
mailorder
They specialise in reproduction and country fabrics.
