Meet The Team –
Meet Rachel, our head seamstress and pattern-maker.
Hi Rachel, tell us a bit about yourself:
I live in Wiltshire with 1 lovely husband, 3 (sometimes) lovely kids. I am a Lay minister, youth group leader and obsessed with sewing! I learned to sew when I was 3, started on the machine at
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In the press: Slow
First of all, a huge thank you to everyone who has backed our Kickstarter project already. It's been a fabulous start. We're almost half way there and we still have 20 days to go. Also, a massive thank you to everyone who has been sharing what we're doing. It's
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Last 4 Days of
Hi guys,
We are almost at the end of our "Slow Fashion for Fast Growing Kids" Kickstarter campaign. We have been thrilled with all the support that we have been getting so far, but we have a little stretch to go yet to reach our funding goal.
We need your help to get
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Kickstarter News – Week
What a week it has been !
47% (£3590) funded in just 1 week. We are thrilled with the great responds and feedback that we have had for this campaign.
Thank you to those of you that have backed us so far ! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you !
The love and support
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Kickstarter Campaign Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxjLgAEM0aM
I hope you’re having a nice week.
As you know I’ve been working on a new zero-waste Jake + Maya collection. We’re all super excited to show you when it launches next week !
We’re going to be using Kickstarter. It’s a website where supporters can place pre-orders or pledge money
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10 Weeks left Until
It took a little while to get back into the swing of things after our wonderful Easter break.
The weeks are flying past .... very quickly.
A lot of decisions had to be made.
All fabrics have been ordered and most have been delivered. All fabrics are organic.
Now time has come to
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Countdown – 15 Weeks

Countdown – 16 Weeks
This week was all about building a good team.
One of the things that I have learnt through my years of running my own brand, is that it is impossible to do everything myself ! I learnt that the hard way. Through making lots of mistakes.
When I first launched Jake & Maya in
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Re-thinking the design process
For me, it has always been very important to produce our collections sustainably.
We sourced all our materials locally and used a lot of remnants, end-of-line as well as vintage materials.
But you know what, i think we can do better than that !
I want to find a way to minimise or
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