About Us
Stitch Central is a quilting, fabric and yarn store started in 2018 by Cybele Perry and Danielle Gallagher. We wanted to create a homey space for quilters, knitters, sewists and crafters and to stock beautiful & contemporary supplies. We found our first perfect home in Huntingdon Valley, in a beautiful & unique building with a very cool history. We moved to a 2nd location in 2020 just a few doors down but, by 2024 it was time to be grownups and buy a building to be our forever home/
We are thrilled to be in an amazing old warehouse that has been totally renovated for our needs. We are 2 short blocks from the Glenside Regional Rail station and have become part of the fabric of Glenside PA. We have a big parking lot for just us and everything is handicap accessible!
The Stitch Central Team
Cybele Perry
In the 10th grade Cybele sewed for herself a cornflower blue dress with little cows on it. She loved it and her classmates there after called her "that girl with the cow dress". Cementing her status of slightly weird Cybele then joined the backstage theater club and went on to spend the next 24 years creating props and scenery for shows and events. All the while quilting and sewing for her family and craft shows. Having reached the dizzying heights of event upper management in a windowless cubicle she looked around one spring day and decided to chuck it all. And here she is!
Danielle Gallagher
Danielle is a Canadian who moved to Pennsylvania from Indonesia in 2017. Confused yet? She lived overseas with her American husband for a decade before settling in the US. While abroad, she taught quilting classes and managed a quilting/fabric/yarn shop in Dubai, then spent three years soaking up textile traditions in Indonesia. She grew up sewing and knitting, loves quilting, and designs quilts and knitting patterns.
Reena Brooks
11 facts about me…
I graduated from Tyler School of Art with a BFA in Printmaking.
When I was little I wanted to be either a garbage man/woman or a chimney sweep.
I learned to knit (continental) and hand sew from my mother when I was home sick from
school.
No walls in my house are white.
I love to adopt other people’s stuff.
I could eat potatoes every day.
I have 3 awesome dogs and two cool cats. One in every color.
I have always wanted to play the piano.
I have many collections of stuff. I love my stuff. My husband doesn’t love it so much.
I do not like the way bananas sound when one eats them (especially my dad.)
I love making things!
Lisa Stockebrand
Lisa is descended from a long line of crafty women, and learned to knit and sew from her mom and from her Barbie-clothes-knitting Grandma way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. She has a degree in Fiber from the University of the Arts, and worked for over 20 years as a Conservation Technician at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lisa can spin, weave, dye, and has 13 feisty chickens.
Tess Genuardi
Tess started sewing when she was 11, learned to knit when she was 15, and learned to crochet when she was 23. If she's not working or teaching classes here, she's a full-time teacher of littles at a small Friends school. She and her partner are childfree and are raising three beautiful cats (and counting).