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The Exciting World of Craft, Quilting and Patchwork Fabrics

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Sarah

From the hard to find and vintage, through to cute, patriotic and funny, if you've been looking for exciting craft, quilting and patchwork fabrics, look no further than Sarah J Home Decor. We supply a wide range for quilting and craft enthusiasts, in lots of different themes to suit plenty of tastes and interests.

All our craft, quilting and patchwork fabrics are supplied by the fat quarter, half metre, ¾ metre or metre so you can purchase the quantity you require. Your fabric will be sent in one whole piece as we cut the fabric off the roll.

You'll be pleased to know that we stock some of the best brands in craft and quilting fabrics:

  • Timeless Treasures
  • Makower
  • Michael Miller
  • Nutex
  • Northcott
  • RJR
  • Riley Blake
  • Clothworks
  • Lakehouse
  • and many more

Aussie patriots

You should see our irresistible range of Australiana fabrics for quilting, craft and patchwork! Of course there are our beloved Aussie animals: koalas, kangaroos, emus, dingoes, platypus, Tasmanian Tiger, crocodiles and pelicans. Oh and our famous birds: galahs, corellas, kingfishers, lorikeets, kookaburras and cockatoos. Aussie flora is well represented with the bottlebrush, wattle, grevillea, banksias and gum leaf flowers.

Don't forget our awesome Australian icons. If you're planning some Aussie nationalistic pride in your craft or quilting, we have Uluru/Ayers Rock, the Australian flag, the Sydney Opera House and of course, some beautiful Aboriginal designs. And we haven't forgotten our car lovers! Check out our fabrics depicting Australian Holden and Ford cars!

Car lovers

Speaking of cars, the next time you're looking to renovate your Kombi van with curtains and cushions, we have a really fun range of Kombi fabrics to choose from!

New Zealand lovers

We have New Zealand fabrics including traditional Maori designs and a variety of Paua Shell designs in stunning greens and blues. We also have craft fabrics and quilting and patchwork fabrics representing the New Zealand flag and famous icons such as Jandals and Tiki. Not to mention the Kiwi bird, Gumboots, Happy Hens and the lovely Buzzy Bee toy that nearly every New Zealand child played with growing up.
Take a look at our New Zealand bird fabrics; the Pukeko/Swamp hen, fantails and stitchbirds, pigeons, penguins, owls and the Kea parrot. Don't forget the hedgehog! We even have New Zealand flora so you can choose from the toi toi, flax plant, cabbage tree, ferns, tussock grass and pohutukawa flowers.

British lovers

Cute, traditional and royalist … there are plenty of choices with the English designs and icons in our craft, quilting and patchwork fabric ranges. We have the Royal Mail postbox, English phone box, British Guardsman, Union Jack flag, the British taxi and London buses.

Food lovers

If you like your quilting and patchwork fabrics scrumptious, then you should see our gorgeous range of food fabrics. We have cakes, cupcakes, wine, cheese, bread, chocolate, coffee and sushi designs, all to suit your favourite cravings. And not a calorie in sight!
Farm animals
For cute and cuddly, you can't go past our farm animal fabrics including cows, sheep, pigs, horses, horses, hens and roosters.

Whatever your craft project, we have wonderful fabric designs to inspire your ideas. The next time you take the sewing kit out to produce children's clothing, aprons, curtains, patchwork quilts, nursery items and kitchen gear, or even a Holden car shirt for your man, look us up. At Sarah J Home Decor, we have plenty of different craft, patchwork and quilting fabrics to keep you enthused for a long, long time.

Talk to us!
We're always interested to know what project you're doing and we'd be happy to source and purchase a specific fabric for you. And don't forget that we also stock a lot of vintage fabrics and out of print fabrics that are hard to find.

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Posted on November 11, 2010 by Sarah

I started my business in 1994 when I was watching the TV program Healthy Wealthy & Wise, Tonia Todman was making neck ties, So I decided to try making them! The first Tie was made out of a bright red fabric with a pansy pattern and I made it too wide for around the neck, so you could see the tie below the collar on the guy's shirt! I made quite a few and then sold them to all the guy's in my office at work. I then found some fabric with a pasta pattern, it also had a red background! So I decided to start making aprons! I still remember one of the girl's at work saying "No one wears Aprons" but to this day they still do!

I then started producing cushions and had approx 100 made so I started a stall at the Eagle St Pier markets along from Riverside in Brisbane. I had a stall there for 9 years, the range soon grew to Food Covers, Hand Towels with the fabric loop on the top and many other items. We also started to produce an annual mail order catalogue to reach customer's Australia wide.

We then launched our first website and started selling worldwide. As our range was always growing and with more people using the internet, we decided to stop producing catalogues.