Collection Spotlight // Those Who Make & Sew

sketchbook pages

those who make mug // £9

those who make print // from £9

those who make pocket mirror // £3.50

autumn brights // Design Seeds // those who make colour inspiration

those who sew mug // £9

those who sew print // from £9

those who sew pattern mug // £9

RockingStitch // those who sew colour inspiration

We are so excited about the launch of our latest collections. The original drawings for these had been in my sketchbook for ages just waiting to be turned into finished designs and filled with pretty colours. After the success of our Good Things Come to Those Who Bake collection I'd been thinking about other possibilities for 'good things' designs. The obvious one for me was 'make' or 'create' as I knew it was something I would buy as a designer-maker! It was really tricky deciding which objects to include in it as there's so many creative tools and materials but I think there's a good balance in the end. I wanted a bright colour palette which included a fuchsia or maybe some jewel tones and ended up having a browse on Design Seeds. This is one of my new favourite inspirational online places! I've been following on Instagram for a while now, everything is just so dreamy.

Lots of you had been requesting a sewing themed illustration so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to develop 'Those who Sew'. The main inspiration for our new sewing design was a colour palette from the fabulous RockingStitch, I just love Barbara's branding colours!

You'll notice a cute new font along with a sweet heart shape print. At the moment these designs are only available in mugs, prints and pocket mirrors. You'll find out why soon as we'll hopefully have some news about new suppliers. If you head over to our Facebook or Instagram you'll see we have some giveaways running until Friday if you'd like to enter. We're really happy with how the new designs turned out and hope you love them too!

Bowness-on-Windermere

This time last week we were in the middle of a family holiday down in the Lake District. We stayed in a cottage which my parents rented for the week in Bowness-on-Windermere, a place we've stayed before although last time I had just finished school and was waiting on my exam results! We had a really relaxing week mostly enjoying time wandering around Bowness, Windermere and Ambleside, feeding the ducks and feeding ourselves. We found some lovely wee shops including Agnes + Cat and Daisy Chain Studio, and our favourite foodie place, Homeground Cafe which we ended up visiting 3 times! If you're in the Lake District you should definitely make time to grab some delicious brunch at Homeground, not forgetting to take away some freshly baked doughnuts for after. On the Wednesday my Dad hired a little boat, which David took a turn driving, and we had a picnic out on the Lake! We ended our week away with an evening at Windermere Rocks where Them Beatles played, a fab night!

Now it's just over 8 weeks until Scotland's Trade Fair so we're back to business as usual and trying to finalise some festive designs. So glad we had that break to recharge us!

A JillyJilly.co.uk Update

It's been a while since we've made any major changes to the website but since we've been busy working on other things the list of ideas for improvements has been growing. This year we've updated our product photos and been improving our listings. Now we've finally found time to make the changes we wanted to our website!

If you head to JillyJilly.co.uk you'll notice our lovely lifestyle photos by Fairytale Asylum Photography dotted around. We've got a nice new page for Our Story and a brand new Studio page where you'll find some behind the scenes photos and a little more information about how we make our products.

A big new section is Collections where we'll be keeping a portfolio of part and present designs. We've also added Reviews which includes Etsy feedback and some customer photos. It's great to let potential customers see what existing customers have said about us but I love reading them too! There's also a fab new Friends of JillyJilly section with links to some of our favourite businesses. Finally, we've added Product Care and Gift Wrapping which have useful info for ordering. I hope you like the changes, we'd love to hear your feedback!