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Hello! We have news!

Our brand Bowes Threads will no longer be 

sold at Topshop In St Stephens Hull due to a million different 

reasons which we wont bore you with now but no need to worry as

 we are currently in talks with some of the best Hull grown 

independent retailers in the city. We're very excited about the 

future of Bowes Threads and reckon this year will be bigger and

 better than the last. All will be revealed soon enough. Thank you to everyone for your love and support in 2013! You're all ace! 

Peace and Love. Katie, Sarah and Amy. Bowes Threads xxxx 

P.S.

You can still buy from our website www.bowesthreads.com and Poorboy Boutique in Princes Quay!

Hull IS The City Of Culture 2017

We are so proud to be from Hull! It is absolutely amazing that we have been named the 'City Of Culture' 2017!

This is a tremendous achievement for the city and all of those involved! We are really looking forward to what the next few years hold for the city and hope that we can be more involved! It has been a long time coming and the fact something so positive has happened for us, is brilliant. We really hope this can change some of the negative perceptions people have on our city.

Katie's photo on her ride to work this morning
The Avenues looked gorgeous this Autumn morning, even if it was reaalllyyy colld!

We had a busy morning processing orders and making some new Hull Loves designs! To celebrate the great news we all had a Pattie Butty and chips for our dinner, with Chip Spice of course! This resulted in the 'Pattie Butty' twitter account sending us tweets telling us they love us, which was quite comical! 

If you haven't had time to celebrate this great news, get your hands on one of our Hull Loves t-shirts or baby grows at  www.bowesthreads.com 

    

        

'Little Bowes' Items!

Now Available Online!

Baby Grows Are £10.00 Only!

Sizes 0-3 Months to 12-18 Months!

Kids Tees Are £15.00!

Sizes 1-2 years to 5-6 years!

www.bowesthreads.com

Barbie, Where'd You Get That TOP?

Now On Sale!! Only £10!!

Available at www.bowesthreads.com

we post internationally :) 

To Infinity... And Beyond!!

Everybody say a big Hello to Buzz! He is the cutest little kitten ever and also a little bit crazy! Every body loves him!!

So other than stuffing our faces with chocolates and watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S, we have been finishing off our new dresses, tops and skirts! We have some new dresses, a skater dress with an embellished waistband in two different fabrics.

Our pink velvet 'Minnie' skirts are realllyyy pretty, and look great with the new 'Skullz' top. They're now in store just in time for Halloween!

The Midnight dress is now available in a dark red colour as well as the blue and they are now in Topshop, St. Stephens, Hull.

www.bowesthreads.com

LIMITED EDITION HULL FAIR TOP!

Hurryy! They're selling fast!!

Exclusive to Topshop St.Stephens, Hull!

Early Start!

Patterns to be made and printing to be done!

Freedom Festival is at the weekend, we are all looking forward to it! The children's white Pattie Butty t-shirts will be launched there, so we're looking forward to seeing how they go! There will also be more baby grows as we pretty much sold out last time!

I heard Skaters being played in Topshop on Monday so they've been in my head ever since! Give them a listen!

On the Tellyyy!!

We got our Trademark Certificate today!! Whoo!!

But in other news... ;)

Myself and Katie where on the telly!! We were on our local news channel Look North for East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

                                   

We were interviewed and recorded at Bowes Threads HQ, for a piece on the 'Pattie' as it is 125 years old today! If you're from Hull you will know what I am on about ;)

Journalist and Presenter Leanne Brown asked us about our 'Hull Loves' range, why we have made a Pattie Butty tee and our Made In Hull tee! The answer of course is, we are proud to be from Hull and love that we have these unique traits! 

Want to find out more?? Watch the interview here! :)  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037xhrm 

HOWEVER! If you DO know what I'm talking about, get your 'Hull Loves' tshirt HERE!! www.bowesthreads.com ! 

We hope Sarah is having a nice holiday! :) 

xxxx

Here, We GO!!

It has been a massively productive, and successful day for us ladies today! Lots of new skirts and shorts ready to have the finishing touches added!

 

  

Katie's first go with the new dyes went amazingly well, the new skirts we have look ACE! We absolutely love them and cannot wait to get them finished and into Topshop!

 We have also dyed some tees with the new stuff too! They'll be so much brighter and the colours do not run either! The quality is brilliant and will only get better the more Katie uses them. She is Pro - Tie Dyer(if that is a word ;)). It's funny how little simple ideas, like using sandwich bags to separate the skirts/t-shirts never crossed our minds before! We can be a little slow at times!

      

 Speaking of the obvious things to do! Why Sarah and I never thought to machine sew in our labels into the skirts before sewing up the waist band before now, we don't know! Even when it was written down and pinned up with our little notes we still missed it! Oops! It was around 3/4 in the afternoon when we need some sugar and brain food! Chocolate buttons were our answer today!

So four more pairs of shorts for me to finish in the morning, then moving onto the skirts with Sarah! Can't wait to get them finished and out for the Festival People, Holiday Goers and Summer Lovers!

Late night rambles with a hint of denim!

Amy here, bit of a late night ramble so here goes!

This week we have been printing on some vintage shorts. Last time, we tried bleaching with stencils, but now we have refined our technique and method in producing these shorts. 

Photos like these make me realise how far us three girls have come in such a short amount of time. Little improvements such as our garment labels, new and more advanced dyes make all the hard work we put in, feel all the more rewarding. 

I do love working with Sarah and Katie and I can see all three of us growing in confidence. I mean, Katie is using the sewing machine like a pro ;) I'm not getting Sarah to sort out the fiddly bits I hate and Sarah has been doing more pattern cutting, still can't get her to cut out though He he! ; ) I'm not saying we've not been able to any of that before but they can do our heads in! So we've all been stepping out of our comfort zones without realising and things are starting to benefit from it! :)

Oh, and we have stopped being so indecisive! ;)

Overall, seeing the quality of our work get better and better is AMAZZZIINNG and I am SSOOOO proud of us!!

We're hopefully getting a new work space soon too! As well as our FIRST Autmun/Winter range!

We can't forget you lovelies, we love seeing our customers happy with their garment(s), that is the best thing EVER!  

Peace&Love

XXXX

www.bowesthreads.com

"Patttiee Buutttyyyyyy!!!" Little Bowes!!

PATTIE BUTTY: Our Little Bowes Model ;) 

You can still get our printed tees on the website www.bowesthreads.com ! We will soon have the baby grows on there and we're looking at doing a Little Bowes range of the tees!

Festival Envy, Psychadelic Dye and New Threads!!

We have found some new dye!! Our tees will be SOOO bright! We can't wait to use them, that is... once Katie has worked out how we use them ;) Our pretty tie dye skater skirts have been going down very well so we have decided to do more, some with a little twist as we will be using the new brighter dyes for the more adventurous ladies! Each and every one still being one of a kind! 

We know the weather has been lovely and hot! But our little heads have been starting to finalise our Autumn/Winter collection! We're very excited to finish everything off and have it ready for you all when the cold returns! But lets not talk about that any more and enjoy this sun while we have it! 

Our new little baby grows will be in store very soon! They the perfect little gift!

As we all have festival envy I'd like to leave you with some Tame Impala...

LAUNCH TIME!!!! WE DID IT!

So last week was CCCAARRAAAZZZYYYY!!!

We had crazy week of getting everything finished! A few late nights and LOTS of sweets!!!

We then had a little shoot on a very cold Saturday morning! Poor Karma our model was a little fed up towards the end but she's awesome for putting up with us poking and prodding her.

We finally set up on Saturday night!

And added some lovely balloons on Sunday morning!

So so proud of us girlies!

Who'd have thought in January this is where we would be! 

3 Days To Go!!

Oh My!! So much to do!!!

Last bits to finish!! Everything looks amazing!!

Saturday Shoot, with the beautiful Karma.

Set up in the store and the GO!!!

BOWES THREADS New Concession Collection!

BOWES THREADS

The collection is almost ready!

Here are a few snippets!

Crazy week ahead!!

"Hull Loves" Printed Tees and Vests from our TOPSHOP concession.. 

Very excited for our TOPSHOP Launch 19th May!

Although the Bowes girls are having a family break in Ibiza(cue venga boys). So jealous!!!

I have meetings this week and lots to do for their return!!

Onwards And Upwards from here!!

Love Amy!

Xxxxx

Little Snippets Of Life At HQ

Baby Grows!

 

 

Plain white baby grows with selected print on the front; chosen from those shown.
Printed using transfer paper, 100% Cotton.
Available from 0-3 months through to 18-24 months, long and short sleeve.

Only £9.99 at www.bowesthreads.com !

We're on VINE!! ADDICTED!!!!

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Peace & Love 

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