Jolly Red

Jolly Red Jolly Red tapestry kits are the ones you finish! As seen on BBC1's Celebrity Race Across the World, stitched by Harry and Emma.

Cushions, Christmas stocking kits, birth samplers and more. Tapestry kits designed with the stitcher in mind. We are fusspots and we care about the details. Our tapestry canvases are printed as accurately as they possibly can be, and we are generous with the other materials we provide in our kits. Our designs are a joy to stitch, with no enormous areas of one colour.

Happy Sunday! We’re in the workshop today, sewing and kit packing. Call if you need us, on 01460 281111. We’ll be here u...
06/09/2026

Happy Sunday! We’re in the workshop today, sewing and kit packing.

Call if you need us, on 01460 281111. We’ll be here until about 4pm.

Happy Friday and happy weekend! Who’s tucking into fish and chips this evening? Thank you all for a very busy week. Chri...
04/09/2026

Happy Friday and happy weekend! Who’s tucking into fish and chips this evening?

Thank you all for a very busy week. Christmas countdown has definitely started. We always think we’re prepared for the rush that starts at the beginning of September when children go back to school, but this year because September arrived straight after the Bank Holiday, we were launched straight into it.

Here are a few snippets from our week.

Happy stitching and happy weekend,

Kelly

02/09/2026

A midweek hello on Wedding Wednesday. Here’s one of Audrey’s recent heart tapestries which may inspire you if you’d like to stitch something special for a happy couple.

Audrey stitched her canvas in her own palette of lovely rich colours and added significant dates and initials in the hearts and the corners of the design.

Take a look in our Hearts, Stars and Patterns category for similar canvases, as well as out Printed Canvas Only section where there are bargains to be had!

The nights are drawing in. It’s the perfect time of year to sort through your wool stash and start stitching for a 2027 wedding.

Thank you, Audrey! ❤️ 💜

Happy 1st of September! We have been planning for this date for a while in the workshop because as soon as September com...
01/09/2026

Happy 1st of September! We have been planning for this date for a while in the workshop because as soon as September comes around, it’s all systems go and the countdown to Christmas.

Thank you so much for your weekend orders, all of which have been packed and collected today. As well as sending within the UK, we have sent parcels to America, Australia, and New Zealand, and to stitchers off the mainland in Jersey and Guernsey. It’s good to keep the postmen busy!

We’ve also been snip snipping fabric for swatch packs. Let us know if you need fabric options for a tapestry you’ve finished, or will be finishing soon.

Siân’s The Season to be Jolly tapestry flew in today for our sewing ladies. It’s lovely to see the new dark green and raspberry red colourway, and the robins look so festive in the moonlight.

Happy stitching, especially if you’ve settled down for a cosy evening watching the Sewing Bee.

Tulip Time looking wonderful in the sunshine. Tulip Time is a great kit to stitch for yourself, or to make for a friend....
31/08/2026

Tulip Time looking wonderful in the sunshine.

Tulip Time is a great kit to stitch for yourself, or to make for a friend. It looks fantastic as the centre of a cushion, folded in half as a specs case for sunglasses or reading glasses.

We used purple soft cotton fabric for the border of our Tulip Time cushion, with Cactus green for piping and backing. Our specs case has a lemon yellow lining.

You’ll find Tulip Time, along with floral friends Moonlight Garden and Wildflower Meadow, in our Specs Case Designs category, link to our website in bio ⬆️

Everything’s included in the kits to make the tapestry area. And yes, this size of project is perfect even for beginners!

Happy stitching!🌷

It was lovely to see Lisa recently when she brought in her completed Harlequin Hearts, stitched to celebrate her and her...
29/08/2026

It was lovely to see Lisa recently when she brought in her completed Harlequin Hearts, stitched to celebrate her and her husband’s wedding anniversary.

Lisa has chosen turquoise velvet for piping and orange for backing. Turquoise and orange are great together and we can’t wait to see Lisa’s finished cushion.

Here’s a bit of background about Harlequin Hearts. It started out as a quick oil pastel drawing that I intended to paint over then scratch out in areas to reveal the colours underneath.

After well over a year of deliberating, I decided I preferred it as it was so started transferring the hearts to graph paper so it could be stitched. I was so pleased with how it turned out. Appletons wool colours were perfect for this design.

I’m so glad that Harlequin struck a chord with Lisa. I remember the moment when she spotted the cushion in our workshop. She knew she’d have to stitch it. The colours were just right, and she absolutely loved the hearts theme for her big anniversary.

Thank you, Lisa. We’re so glad you enjoyed stitching it! ❤️ 🧡 💙 🩷

Harlequin Hearts is in our Hearts, Stars and Patterns category, link to website in bio ⬆️

29/08/2026

Walking in the rain.

Happy stitchy weekend to anyone finishing a Christmas stocking or any other tapestry.Here’s a selection of stockings to ...
28/08/2026

Happy stitchy weekend to anyone finishing a Christmas stocking or any other tapestry.

Here’s a selection of stockings to help you decide on the colours you’d like us to use for the outside and the lining.

Scroll through for our top tip on how to send in your tapestry if you no longer have the box that your kit came in. We’re so pleased that Ann took our advice!

Our address for your woolly masterpieces is:

Jolly Red, Unit 4B Walronds Park, Isle Brewers, Somerset TA3 6QP.

Always post using a ‘signed for’ method, and remember to write your name on the back of your parcel.

All this information can be found via our bio if you nip along to our website, along with sections on our blog showing our fabric options.

There’s one last job before the weekend starts for me, and that’s opening today’s parcels and emailing the senders so they know that their tapestries have arrived safely.

After that, it’s feet up time. Hello long weekend! x

Good morning! Happy Friday and happy weekend if you’re heading off to enjoy a long weekend and take advantage of the las...
28/08/2026

Good morning! Happy Friday and happy weekend if you’re heading off to enjoy a long weekend and take advantage of the last Bank Holiday of the summer.

Today we have more dog-themed tapestries for you. The tops and bottoms of the photos we showed on International Dog Day earlier this week were chopped off. We are blaming technology, while secretly admitting that it was probably human error 😊

First up is a smiling Sarah R with her wonderful collection of Christmas stockings that included two Puppies Christmas stockings. Next is George M’s Puppies stocking stitched for Ted, looking great in red velvet.

The office manager is modelling Festive Fairytale which is another of our boot-shaped Christmas stockings, the same shape as Puppies.

The cushions are Pupstar Pals, Dizzy Dogs and Beach Huts, and Candy Stripe Dachshunds. The specs case nestled among the seaside friends is Dogs on the Beach.

Have a look in the Christmas and Animals categories of out website if you’re a dog lover thinking about an autumn tapestry project. Link in bio ⬆️

We’re closing a bit early today, just after our post is collected at 4pm. Right now, coffee time!

27/08/2026

Thank you for sending in your Christmas stockings and plenty of time for our October deadline.

Dogs and Cats is one of our Christmas stocking designs in our long shape. You can stitch it for anyone in the family, including the pets! 🐈‍⬛ 🐕

With all of our Christmas stocking kits, you receive a colour printed canvas, a reference chart, lots of Appletons tapestry wool in 10 metre skeins, a size 18 John James needle, and an alphabet chart so you to plan your name panel. Each kit comes in its own recyclable red bag.

All our Christmas stockings are in our Christmas category, link in bio. You can choose to buy the complete kit or the canvas on its own if you already have lots of your own wool to use up.

Happy stitching!

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Unit 4B Walronds Park Isle Brewers
Taunton
TA36QP

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 9:30am - 1:30pm

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01460 281111

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