About Us
Alison was taught to knit by her mother who was an absolute stickler for getting every stitch exactly right, resulting in her having to undo or redo her work, which miraculously didn’t put her off, in fact it inspired a lifetime's love of the art of knitting. Alison designs her own patterns for Crumbz Craft and is always working on a multitude of projects in addition to helping others with theirs.
A natural teacher, Alison has a faithful following who cast on ‘Alison’s way’ and love her guidance in lessons and at Knit, Hook & Natter held on a Thursday night in the craft room. She records lessons on you tube – so she can share her tips and secrets that have been handed down through generations, to a wide reaching audience.
Anneke’s mother was a seamstress and as a young child Anneke would use any left-over pieces of fabric to make clothes for her dolls. By the age of eight, she could unpick her sister's skirts and remake them into ones for herself! And that was the start of her love affair with dress-making.She learned to sew professionally and in the 1990s ran her own sewing business making garments for clients. During that time she worked for Myer, doing customer alterations, which was great experience and quite a learning curve; each garment had to look exactly the same after the alteration as it did before!
Shara studied visual arts at Monash Uni where she majored in photography and developed her textile design skills. She has her own knitwear design company Shara Lambeth Designs and teaches crochet, knitting and needle felting at Crumbz Craft. Shara’s main focus is crochet design which is having its hay day again thanks to the recent craft revival. She also loves knitting and sewing and creating her own jewellery and clothes.
She is our ‘go to’ Crochet expert so if you would like to learn to crochet or have a project you’d like to discuss with Shara, come in and say hello.
Samantha Green - Our Patchwork Teacher
Sam runs For the Love of Fabric and lives in Healesville. A self confessed lover (hoarder) of fabric she designs patchwork quilt patterns many of which have been featured in magazines, such as her Prairie quilt, which was featured in the January issue of Homespun magazine.She has been teaching quilting with us at Crumbz since 2012 and we stock her quilt patterns too. If you’d like to have a patchwork lesson, learn how to cut fabric, are stuck with a pattern or quilt, want to understand a technique further, or perfect your 1/4" seams, trim blocks to exact sizes, or design and create your own quilt – book a lesson with Sam.
Just Words is a local PR firm who have managed our PR since 2012 and we love being in their capable hands. Helen oversees all our copy at Crumbz, as well as managing our online presence, always ensuring we look and sound good.
It has been exciting working with her over the years to build our profile, and to see our brand get featured in the national press and magazines and to be approached by the media, rather than to have to chase them!