Brindabella Quilting Systems
3 Fihelly Street, Fadden ACT 2904
Phone 02 6292 0183
Fax 02 6292 0189
inquiries@brindabellaquilting.com.au
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| Over thirty years ago Mal and I opened Pins and Needles, a shop in Wanniassa, Canberra. We started with fashion and craft fabrics, school wear, wools, haberdashery and craft notions. We expanded to larger premises after five years and fifteen years ago we introduced patchwork fabrics in a more dominant way. This introduced us to a whole new breed of addicts! Never being a patchworker myself but wanting a piece of the action, quilting seemed to be just what I could envisage myself doing. Having tried to quilt in the normal manner, and being very dissatisfied with the results, I experimented with moving the sewing machine about on a platform with castors as opposed to moving the quilt. This gave birth to the Phantom, the forerunner of the first Australian home quilting table, the Can-Quilt. |
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Having customers with disabilities and unable to stand, also realizing the stress and strains involved with quilting large projects and the inability of most people to afford or have the room for an industrial quilter, I developed the Can-Quilt workstation which was a free standing table with cutting board, ironing board and area to use your sewing machine in the normal manner when you weren’t quilting . Then with small modification you where able to convert to a quilting table capable of quilting a 2.35 metre quilt. I designed a carriage with handles coming over the top of the machine with a hand operation lever for the foot pedal so that we where able to work from the front of the frame. This proved to be a highly successful innovative method. The Can-Quilt has since developed into a table capable of using the large industrial machines up to 20 inch throat. | |
The increase in size of the Can-Quilt was no longer practical for the average domestic user therefore I looked at our original mission statement of wanting to allow the average quilter access to a quilting table that was not only affordable , compact and portable but also not compromising on quality, and so the Happy Jack has been developed to meet this market . We have achieved this above all our expectations developing yet again a new method of operating the sewing the machine on a truly compact portable frame. |
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