Our new Strawberries and Daisies tapestry kit is a wonderful design to stitch and make into a cushion or specs case. The juicy strawberries and delicate daisies will evoke memories of summer picnics, afternoon teas and days out in the sunshine. Wimbledon too, if...
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New Indian Summer tapestry kit
Relax and unwind with our new Indian Summer tapestry, perfect to stitch at home or to take with you on holiday. The bright flowers glow against their indigo blue background. Indian Summer joins Wildflower Meadow and Moonlight Garden, popular designs which we brought...
New! Moonlight Garden and Wildflower Meadow
Spring is in the air and today we bring you fresh flowers! For your stitching delight we have a stunning new floral tapestry design in two very different colourways. Wildflower Meadow brings the sunshine in with its colourful flowers against a primrose yellow...
New Alphabet Garden tapestry
Hello and welcome to our new Alphabet Garden tapestry. Teddy is a keen gardener and you'll often find him watering his plants or tending to his beehive. Everyone knows that bears like honey and this chap is no exception! Teddy is never short of company in the garden....
New! Conkers tapestry kit
Our new Conkers tapestry kit will transport you to happy times of autumnal woodland walks, days with clear skies, bright sunshine, and crisp leaves underfoot. We moved from Bristol to South Somerset in the early 1990s and the village we were lucky enough to find...
Fabric choices for your Christmas stocking
The summer months mark the official start of Christmas stocking season in our topsy-turvy tapestry world. We receive Jolly Redders' stitched Christmas stockings all year for our Making up Service, but from July onwards the pace really picks up. If you've just finished...
Fabric ideas for your Brighter Days Daffodils tapestry
It's lovely to see so many of your finished Brighter Days Daffodils tapestries arriving in our workshop for making up. Thank you for sending them in. It's so warm at the moment that once we've stretched the canvases they are drying very fast, so our sewing ladies can...
New! Apple Tree Wedding for your happy couple
Weddings are back for 2022 and love is in the air! We are thrilled to unveil our new wedding tapestry, Apple Tree Wedding, which joins Love Birds and Congratulations as a beautiful design to stitch for a romantic occasion. With our Apple Tree Wedding tapestry we've...
Fabric for your Grey Hearts tapestry
Grey Hearts is a Jolly Red tapestry that comes in regularly for our sewing ladies to make into a cushion. There are lots of different fabric options for your Grey Hearts tapestry if you've finished stitching one and are about to send it in to us for making up, so...
A-Z Animals tapestry kits for your new arrival
Our A-Z Animals kits are fabulous not-too-big tapestries to stitch for a new arrival in your family. They also make wonderful christening gifts, and look great whether made into a cushion or framed as a picture, or made into a personalised book bag. Decisions,...
New Year – and we’re here!
A warm hello, and a very Happy New Year from all of us at Jolly Red. While we are in lockdown, our small team is very fortunate to be able to continue to work in our spacious and airy Somerset HQ. We are packing and posting kits, and our sewing ladies are once again...
Christmas posting dates
Christmas is very close now, and this year we need to be more organised than ever if posting gifts to friends or relatives. Our mail services are dealing with far higher volumes of parcels than they normally have, so please shop early if you can. Your local postie...
Well done, everyone!
We've just passed that much-queried date on the tapestry calendar, the last date for UK tapestries to be sent to our making up service and arrive back home in time for Christmas. If you're reading this and aren't quite sure about the deadline date, we're afraid you've...
Home Sweet Workshop
How time flies! We've been in our new home for about a month and already it feels like home. Thank you so much for your very kind messages and cards. Some of you asked to see pictures of our workshop once we've settled in, so here we are with a glimpse into our new...
We are moving!
After twelve years in our Monk's Dairy Workshop, we are bursting at the seams and it's time to move on. We are thrilled to have found larger premises, just five minutes drive away from Monk's Dairy. We will be moving into our new workshop next week, so there will be...
We’re still here!
Good morning! It's the start of another very strange week for all of us, and we want to reassure you that we are still working, making up tapestries and sending out kits from our Somerset HQ. Since the launch of our new Blossom Birds tapestry, we've been very busy....
February Ramblings
I like February. There, I've said it. I'm probably one of the few people to have uttered those words as our shortest month seems to make everyone else who comments on it either fed up, impatient or cross. Usually the negative feelings are accompanied by a longing for...
Stitching for a new baby? It’s as easy as ABC!
What a lot of birth sampler cushions we see in our hideaway HQ! The lovely thing about the tapestries is that they are all so different, with their own little tweaks here and there. The name panel on each one is unique too, which is just as well as we often have...
Remembering
Earlier this year, Jackie, one of our Topsham friends, came to visit us in Somerset with two tapestries that she had stitched. She also brought with her an old but treasured tapestry on behalf of her friend, Kaye. The tapestry was stapled on to a board and didn't look...
Coffee With Friends September Update
It's Macmillan's big Coffee Morning day! Thank you for helping us to get our latest Macmillan fundraiser off to a great start, and for enabling us to make our first payment of the year of £160 to Macmillan Cancer Support, from sales of our first batch of Coffee With...
Squaring up a rectangular design
Sometimes you'll stitch a design that is 'portrait' format rather than 'landscape.' Traditionally, such a design would have found its way to the picture framer as the portrait format lends itself very well to being framed. While framing is definitely an option, it is...