Extra Special Birthday Presents for a Quarantined Birthday during Covid 19

Aries Babies, I feel for you! Birthdays in April are going to be slightly weird not being able to go out or see your loved ones. My birthday is on the 7th April, I am quite excited tbh as my husband has to think of something in such challenging times lol, lets see what he does. I just wanted to talk to you about what you could gift an Aries or any birthday boy or girl who has been Quarantined to make them feel that extra special being stuck up at home… - it’s a personalised, custom, special and bespoke Jacket!

Quillattire upcycles vintage clothing and gives you something extra special and individual, we use high quality Levis jackets for our denim customisations, so you are guaranteed a long lasting product. We personalise jackets, but anything you want we can do. Imagine a jacket with even ‘Happy Birthday ‘insert name’’ on it or ‘Aries are the best’, ‘Quarantined Birthday Boy/Girl’, ‘Self Isolation Birthday’ , anything you want we can do. If you want sparkles or neon colours, pictures of cars, Kanye West or Kim Kardashian we can create! We are super good at custom artwork and our job is make what you desire come true through art and design.

One of our best sellers - Hand Painted Mount Fuji Denim Jacket

So here is how the process of having your very own customised, personalised jacket, its really simple, so if you need a special Birthday, Anniversary, Valentine, Congratulations, Graduation present anything we can get it to you very easily. Below is a custom jacket I created for a lovely lady who wanted to gift her boyfriend for his Christmas present, she sent across his logo. I created a Computer Aided Design for her to approve, after it was approved I started hand painting onto the jacket i had sourced for her. Lets simplify these steps for you, so you understand how easy it is to request your own customised jacket.

Customised Jacket for a customer for a Christmas Gift

The process of ordering your Customised Jacket:

Get in touch with your request via our Customised Jacket Page
Send us what your idea is or the artwork you have already, what colour denim, leather or whatever jacket you would like and the size your require. Even if you have a Jacket you want us to use, we would be happy to, sustainable fashion is the way forward and we specialise in up-cycling.
We will send you a quote and how long it will take, usually 5/6 working days so ensure you give yourself at least a week and half before you make the request or just contact us and we could make it sooner.
We will send you a link to pay, once payment is made we will send you a Computer Aided CAD to approve.
Once approval is made, we will get creating and send your jacket to you within 5/6 working days, packed nicely so you do not have to do anything :)
Happy Customer and super amazing Gift!

The Computer Aided Design we sent to the Customer to Approve

We love a good review, it tells us we are doing a good job and if not how we should approve :)

Customised Koi Karp Jacket for a Customer, they sent their favourite Jacket in to us.

Options for the Customer to Approve from

We work hard to get you the highest quality jackets to ensure you or the person you are gifting loves it!

For All those Bride to be’s out there that have had to postpone their weddings, i feel ya! I suppose the positive is you can make everything a little extra perfect for your new date. If you have not got yourself a customised Wedding Jacket for yourself, your groom, flower girls or even brides maids - you now have the opportunity. We have been fortunate to make quite a few brides their jackets for their special day, have a look below :) and get in contact for yours here.

Postponed Wedding due to Covid 19 :( we got you!

Our lovely Bohemian Bride Lara from Spain at her wedding reception

How Lovely does our Bohemian Bride Lara from Spain look in our customised hand painted Jacket. She wore it as part of her Wedding Reception. She looks so unique and loving the hair band ribbon to match back with the red heart! The jacket reads ‘Forever’ in romantic text, a red heart with the initials ‘P & L’ for her and her husband and the date of her wedding in roman numerals painted on the waist band, below the amazing feedback we got :)

Bride Lara loved the Jacket we made for her wedding outfit

If you are trying to cheer up your friend because her/his wedding has been postponed a little pick me up would be a wedding Jacket to get them excited for their new date. Below a pair of wedding jackets we created for a Bride and Groom in California, just before the lock down happened!

Wedding Jackets for a Bride & Groom in California

Below my mentor was unsure of what to buy for his nieces Christmas Gift so he bought her a customised denim Jacket from Quillattire. She told me exactly what she wanted and we created it for her, she was super happy with the final product. We aim to please so we also gift wrapped the item for that added touch. Have a look at all the custom/bespoke pieces we have worked on here and get in contact with your request, we will be happy to help!

Computer Aided Design Mock up for the Customer to approve

The Final Product, that she was super happy with!

We also make customised Children’s Jackets, here an image of a custom we did for a Bride and Flower girl :)

Some Kidswear Customisations we have also worked on. Have a first birthday and not sure what to gift, we got you - we can create any animal or animation you would like. Be it a niece, nephew, friends baby or child we can create an uber cool jacket for them to show off when they go to school, nursery or just out.

Hope you have enjoyed a little write up on gifting and how we can help to make it that extra but special and unique. Please get in contact with your request, or even if you are unsure we can give you ideas and take it from there. We look forward to hearing from you, stay safe :)

Self Isolation, nothing to do ---> How to make a Mask at home...

Hey Guys, pretty surreal time we are going through atm, we just have to remember we are in this together and will get through lockdown if we follow the advise of the government and stay at home. Sending you all positive vibes! How beautiful is the clapping for the NHS each Thursday, we really are together in this. Despite the scariness and sadness of this situation, the world is with us, no person bigger or smaller is not going through the same as we are, the whole world is united and we all need to really care. listen, respect and help each other.

Image taken from Stylist Magazine Instagram

Business has slowed down all around us, I am assuming because everyone is so uncertain about the time ahead..I mean I am not spending either just on food and my home bills. How about you guys?

So along side making new designs for Quillattire, painting and getting annoyed with my husband who has now set up his work from home desk right next to me and is always on calls (snore), I decided to learn how to make fashion masks with my off cuts, which means they are all sustainable (what a bonus!). The mask are fun and great to pair back with a cool outfit. I don’t know about you but I cover my nose and mouth when going out to the supermarket or for a walk now to avoid people’s germs and my own spreading..and I struggle to breathe with all that fabric on my face, so I thought I could make fashion masks for you guys to make things easier and also to give another option to purchase a mask that is not going into the stock that is needed by our Health care system (NHS for everyone in UK).

Our First Reversible Leopard Print Face Mask

Above our Reversible Leopard print face mask, not bad for our first attempt. We thought we would give you two for the price of one (what a treat), we have made this mask reversible so the other side is black lace. You get two looks in one mask, how cool! Below an image of the other side of our face mask, it will be like have two faces lol

Each mask has elasticated straps to hang over the ears. This mask as an outfit would look dope with our Unisex Leopard print Shell Suit Bottoms and Black, Mint or Red Mount Fuji hoodies- such a cool , happy and colourful vibe which is what we need during this world wide pandemic called Coronavirus. All pieces are above are Unisex home boy clothes, perfect to quarantine and chill in, the masks would be great to gift for Birthdays, or general gifts for family or friends - so get involved. Free shipping for all UK orders, small fee for worldwide.

Our Leopard Embellished Shell suit Bottoms that would go great with your Leopard print Mask ;)

Some of the masks i have made, more dropping soon, click here to purchase :)

If you have any spare fabrics lying around, help yourself and others and make them into masks! I saw a post on Forbes and downloaded the pattern and simply followed the instructions below written by the lovely guys at Free Sewing who sew patterns for the non average people.

The mask patterns come in small, medium and large, what you need to make them listed below:

Breathable Fabric not too thick as you need to be able to breath.
Elastic for the sides to hang from your ears.
A Sewing Machine
Scissors
Iron
Printer to print the patterns

Step 1: Join centRE seam

Join the curved seam that is centre of our mask by placing the good sides together and sewing them in place.

Step 2 (optional): Press the centRE seam

This step has no functional value, it will only make your mask look better. So if you’re not too bothered about that, feel free to skip it.

Press the seam allowance on the centre seam open so the seam lies nice and flat.

As this is a curved seam, it won’t lay flat. But you can approach it with your iron from one side, then do the second half from the other side. Alternatively, you can use a tailor’s hem or cushion to press.

Step 3: Sew the outer to the inner fabric and attach ribbons

Now we will sew the inner (lining) fabric to the outer (main) fabric, and attach the ribbons all in one step.

Place your lining fabric down with the good side up.
Then, place two ribbons on the corners of one side (right in our example) so that they peak out just a bit from the mask, but the ribbon extends inwards.
Now place the main fabric on top of this with the good side town. You should now have both layers of your mask on top of each other with good sides together and two ribbons sandwiched between them
Pin through ribbons and layers to keep them in place
Now do the same on the other side
Now sew around the mask, making sure to leave one side open so we can turn the mask inside-out later.

Step 4: Turn the mask inside-out

Actually, your mask is inside-out now, so turning it inside out will mean we get it outside-out, or regular.

Just reach in through the side your left open and carefully pull the mask through to turn it.

Step 5 (optional): Press the mask

Now that the mask is as it should be, it’s time to press it. Before doing so, make sure to fold the seam allowance of the side we left open inwards, so that we press it flat as if it was sewn.

Step 6: Close open side of the mask and edge-stitch around the edge

Now it’s time to close the side of our mask the we left open to turn it inside out.

We are not merely going to close the opening, but also edge-stitch around the entire mask to give our mask some extra stability, and keep the lining at the back.

Make sure the open side is folded neatly inside, then edge-stitch around the entire mask.

Step 7: NOW GO MAKE YOUR MASK OR MAKE FOR OTHERS!

Our Denim Face Mask with Neon Yellow Back that we have been working on You could wear this for your virtual parties, a trendy trips to the supermarket, somethings telling me even after the lock down masks are still going to be needed. Feeling the pain for the Aries crew who have birthdays that they will be self isolating through :( My birthday was on the 7th April, I was wearing my own sequin mask - self love and all that!

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial, get in contact with us if you have any ideas for your very own custom, personalised Face Masks! Stay tuned for our next blog post where we will be talking about being Self Employed, having your own business and the struggles that the Coronavirus has caused us all and then a talk about the go to series on Netflix ‘Tiger King’!:) Stay safe people and if interested in any masks click here. :)

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