We Are Now Open on Fridays Too.

We are open every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday (10:00-3:00).

This website is an extension of my studio, where we hold Workshops, Quilt-Ins and have our Shop, containing beautiful fabrics, patterns, kits, threads and more.  My family and I like to think of Chandler’s Cottage as a “Boutique” patchwork service, where nothing is too much trouble.  Every fabric we stock is of the highest quality, every pattern is easy to read and the workshops are great fun.
Our first priority is that you always feel welcome, whether it’s here on the website, when we chat on the phone, or when we greet you at the door.
It’s over five years ago now, since I was boiling the kettle one Saturday morning to make a cuppa, and turned around to see six ladies making one of my quilts at my kitchen table.  I remember thinking, “I don’t know how this happened, but I’m happy that it did!”

Same thought crossed my mind the night I guided a lost lady through the back lanes in Healesville to a patchwork class.  I walked in to find six ladies about to embark on their first sampler.  The kettle was on, a fresh batch of scones was just out the oven and the atmosphere was warm and friendly. There was room for one more around the kitchen table and I returned the following week to join them. (It’s pink and green, and no, you can’t see it!)  Twenty years on, a Food Science degree, husband and two sons later, I have finally succumbed to the obsession!

To share my love of patchwork with you and others, I decided to launch our website in 2005, with a range of decadent fabrics, patterns and kits, all with an Oriental feel .  At the moment I love working with Kona Bay oriental prints and compliment them with gorgeous Hoffman hand-dyed batiks, Michael Miller’s Fairy Frost range and other complementary prints.

I am also at the moment in the process of extending my fabrics and designs to include other cultural influences, such as Central American, Middle Eastern and of course Australian!

Well, I’ll leave you alone to have a look around the website.  Please don’t hesitate to ask me if you have any questions, I’m just an email or phone call away, and thanks so much for popping in!

Warmest Wishes, and Happy Sewing, Leesa.

PS - If you would like to come and visit our new studio, you'll find it at 17 Keys St, Beaumaris, VIC, 3193 (Melway Ref 86 E9). We are open every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday (10:00-3:00).
Or if you would like to get a group together please feel free to ring me on (03) 9515 0432 and we can arrange a suitable time for you to come and visit.