The Practical Quilter
The Practical Quilter is a new concept shopping experience for the New Zealand Quilter with the sole focus of offering the supplies and accessories needed to make amazing quilts, bags or other textile items.
Welcome! We are continually updating the store's stock, so be sure to check back regularly and see what we've added as we have stock arriving all time. Or you can keep up to date with new arrivals, sales and special offers by messaging on the site or emailing us (enquiries@thepracticalquilter.nz) to sign up for the store's Newsletter or check out our Facebook page. We order stock regularly from wholesalers in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. If you're after anything specifically, why not send us an enquiry message or email us direct at The Practical Quilter and we can see what we can do for you.
What's New? (18 September 2024)
We're just back from visiting family and friends in Canada and as we like to do, we keep a look out for new Canadian quilt designers that we can bring back to offer at The Practical Quilter. On this visit we discovered Highway 10 Designs the brain child of Kathy Schwartz and Lori Suss who met in Flin Flon, Manitoba at a local guild meeting in 2003. From here Kathy and Lori started their design journey by designing their own quilt pattern to use as a Mystery project to be presented at their respective quilt guilds which then went on to spark the start of their design business. That project was their first pattern called Alternate Routes which we now stock at The Practical Quilter. From there Highway 10 Designs was born, named after the highway that connects the towns they now both live in. Check out the What's New? shop for the designs we now stock.