About

The Scribbly Gum Quilt Co Story

Born of wanting curated bundles tailored to her own aesthetic, Scribbly Gum Quilt Co was started in 2020 by Jodie of Joz Makes Quilts in the wardrobe of her Bondi home. As it grew it was moved into her guest room and then in 2021 to a small retail space in the beautiful Bundanoon NSW.  

While all this was going on, Jodie had a wonderful customer, me, and over months of lockdowns and quilt creations an Insta DM friendship grew until she asked me to remotely work for her in 2020.

When 2022 began, Jodie not only moved the shop down to Melbourne but was also ready to head back to the corporate world allowing her more time for her original passion, quilting, and to begin creating patterns of her own.  With a similar aesthetic to her, the same love and passion for Scribbly Gum and the fact I had half the shop in my stash already, she entrusted me to run things for her until she made the decision to let it go to me in October 2022.

And thats how a 60 square metre shop ended up squeezed into my front lounge dining room in 2023, then moved to a warehouse space in 2024 and now currently in a much larger space located in Moorabbin where I hope it will remain.

Jodie and I still collaborate. Her using my bundles or coming to raid the shop and create her own, and me pattern testing and kitting her patterns.

And if you were wondering where the name Scribbly Gum Quilt Co came from?  There is a beautiful gum tree here in Australia called the Scribbly Gum, named for the lines that resemble scribble on the trunks.  These lines reminded Jodie of free motion quilting and so Scribbly Gum Quilt Co was named.