About Tilly Thompson

I’m Helen Barnett and I started my company Tilly Thompson up in 2013.

I’ve been a very creative person from a very young age. I used to always be out helping my dad in the garage whilst he was building things or helping mum baking, or decorating. Never one to sit doing nothing, I was and still am always on the go, living in my dream world.

I studied Art and Design at college and went on to study fashion design at university, I feel at home surrounded with beautiful fabrics and my sewing machine.

I used to have my own gift shop that I set up back in 2008 called ‘Pink Button’ I specialised in baby and christening gifts and then entered out into gifts for the home, I made a lot of the stock myself and found it very rewarding. I ran it for 3 ½ years and loved it but due to the recession at the time I unfortunately had to close down, it was one of the hardest decisions I had to make. I had built such a lovely and loyal customer base and have made many friends from having the shop.

That’s why I decided to set something up again, this time online and just for babies, beautiful, bespoke products handmade from the heart.