Our Team.

Welcome to Garden Path Stitchery, where every piece is stitched with care, creativity, and purpose. Founded by Jodie in 2018, our small team blends artistry, technique, and storytelling to create one-of-a-kind textile treasures.
    Jodie Peel leads the creative vision, designing Stitch & Paint kits, scenic quilts, and stitched accessories that make creativity feel joyful and achievable.
    

My 30‑Year Creative Story
For more than thirty years, I carried a quiet dream — a dream to create art that felt like me. Not trendy, not borrowed, not rushed. Just the kind of art that had been brewing inside my imagination since the day I first picked up a pencil.

Life took me in every direction except the one I longed for. I  worked hard, supported others, and kept creativity tucked away like a secret I wasn’t ready to open. But the ideas never stopped. They simmered, evolved, and waited — patiently — for the right moment.

That moment finally arrived.

What I create today isn’t new. It’s the result of decades of observing, sketching, experimenting, dreaming, and quietly building a world of characters, creatures, and patterns that feel like home. My dragons, my Garden Lady, my Aussie animal motifs, my stained‑glass style creatures — they’re not sudden inspirations. They’re the release of a lifetime of stored creativity.

This isn’t a hobby.
This is the fulfilment of a long‑held dream.

Every design I make now carries that history. Every line, every colour choice, every motif comes from years of wanting to do this and finally having the space, tools, and confidence to bring it to life.

I’m not stepping into someone else’s lane.
I’m finally stepping into my own.

And after thirty years of waiting, it feels like I have arrived.

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