kids fashion – Jake + Maya [Kids]

jakeandmaya1 05 October, 2017 Comments off

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

CA 25 September, 2017 Comments off

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

jakeandmaya1 09 April, 2017 No Comment

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

jakeandmaya1 22 March, 2017 No Comment

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

jakeandmaya1 07 March, 2017 Comment 1

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

jakeandmaya1 19 April, 2016 No Comment

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

jakeandmaya1 02 March, 2016 No Comment

Countdown – 15 Weeks

This past week has been all about printing. While my wonderful pattern-maker is finalising all details and adjustments, it is time for me to finalise all fabrics and patterns. Normally when we design a collection, we start with choosing the fabrics but with this collection, we did

jakeandmaya1 23 February, 2016 Comments 2

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