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With a focus on the ever changing world of sewing and machine dealers we decided to do things a bit differently in NZ. The day was a fantastic learning experience for everyone and also launched Echidna’s stronger presence into NZ as a Brother NZ dealer as well as my new role as Echidna Sewing’s NZ Manager. In November 2018 I organized an end of year event – which started as a small group sew along at my house and evolved into a day session with Gary Walker, the owner of Echidna Sewing at Brother NZ offices in central Auckland. I started monthly catch ups in Auckland for those who would like to get together and inspire each other. In July 2017, I started the NZ Machine Embroidery Addicts Facebook Group with the intent of collecting NZ based machine embroiderers from around New Zealand for the purpose of making friends with like minded people and also sharing ideas and inspiration. After a couple of years of hard work and lots of travel back and forth to the USA, it all paid off and Echidna Sewing became a leading innovator and supplier for the home sewing and embroidery market.Įchidna Sewing has always shipped supplies to NZ customers who order online but until recently, their presence in NZ has been fairly limited – until me and my quest to get better supplies and resources came along that is! Įchidna Sewing started in the early 1990’s when Gary Walker, the founder and still the owner, a sewing machine mechanic who owned a successful sewing machine sales and service centre in Brisbane made a life-changing decision to spend all his money investing in an idea to help make using home embroidery machines easier.
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Well yes firstly, an Echidna is a kind of Australian animal but Echidna Sewing is a sewing and embroidery supply retailer based in Australia and now ALSO IN NEW ZEALAND (we’ll come back to this later) is one of the largest suppliers of Brother Sewing and Embroidery machines in Australia and now also a supplier of Brother NZ Sewing and Embroidery machines. If you’ve never heard of Echidna Sewing before, you may be wondering who and what Echidna is and how you found yourself on this page about some animal who embroiders – hey, it’s not impossible, we all find ourselves watching cats doing weird things on YouTube from time to time!