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The Dorothy Days - an online shop selling handmade knitted hats, vintage homewares, craft supplies, candles and more! Rachel and Jamie
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Run by Rachel and Jamie from our home in the British countryside The Dorothy Days - We believe in beautiful, practical and long lasting items which are unique and a joy to own

Hello! We are Rachel and Jamie and together we run The Dorothy Days. We believe in beautiful, practical and long lasting items which are unique, a joy to own and will be treasured for many years to come. This is central to

everything we do and bring you in the shop whether it is the hat which becomes a favourite wardrobe staple or the craft supply that you will turn into something beautiful and unique item to treasure. In a world of excess and waste, we strongly believe in buying better and buying less. We live by this philosophy ourselves and with what we bring you in our shop. We love what we do and are very much lead by our creativity and what sparks our interests and brings us joy to make. We have recently moved to our dream home in Cornwall, UK to raise our two children; Iris and Vivienne. We love that running our creative business allows us the freedom to be together as a family and hope to raise our children mindfully, in harmony with nature, and with an eagerness to explore our natural surroundings. Please do pop by on social media to come and say hi and to follow what we are up to and what is coming next for the shop.

17/08/2026

We’re taking a little break for the rest of August ☀️

August is a quieter time for both the shop and Dorset Team, but a really busy time for us as a family. We were doing a pretty good job of juggling everything, but we’ve definitely started to feel a bit burnt out, so we’ve decided to give ourselves the rest of the summer holidays off and step back until September.

The children are home for the summer holidays, Jamie’s work is particularly busy at the moment, and trying to fit everything around having everyone at home means there just aren’t quite enough hours in the day!

I’ll still be knitting away when I get a quiet moment. It actually gives me a chance to work more flexibly around the children and slowly build up stock ready for our September knitwear launch, without trying to keep on top of all the usual admin and social media at the same time.

So we’re not completely stopping, but we are taking the rest of August away from the usual shop and Dorset Team work so we can concentrate on the children while they’re off school, keep things ticking over behind the scenes, and hopefully head into September feeling a little more prepared and a little less frazzled!

See you in September 🍂🧶

09/08/2026

A beautiful summer evening. Jamie has been really getting into his evening runs recently🏃 and it means he gets to explore more of the countryside around us. It is so beautiful here 🌞

06/08/2026

Farewell little socks!

I love making socks. These tiny ones are pretty fiddly but look how cute they are!

And now we are packaging them up ready to be sent out to a tiny little customer.

05/08/2026

We have been busy!

August is prime time for knitting 🧶. Knitwear orders are going out regularly and we are also knitting for stock so we have enough to keep up with demand as we approach the Autumn. Here are some of our recent knits.

30/07/2026

July photo dump. July has been a real mixed month. It’s been super busy but also pretty chilled. Now the weather has cooled a little, Jamie has been getting our running more 🏃 and has discovered some beautiful local spots. We have been doing lots of autumn prep and working on socks currently! It’s exciting to see them come together.

21/07/2026

Summer holidays ☀️ Still very much here but at a slower pace so we can slow down and have some family time.

14/07/2026

We are so lucky to live here. Planning to spend as much of the summer holidays with the children exploring places near us 🏕️🥾.

12/07/2026

PART TWO: Squeaky bum moments of running a knitwear business🫣.

The last one is already putting a shiver down my spine 😅!

10/07/2026

Part 1: Squeaky bum moments of running a knitwear business.

Squeaky bum has to be one of my favourite expressions ever 🤭😅

The packaging tape is actually a nightmare....we have so many rolls stashed in our linen cupboard currently....! Eek!

09/07/2026

Socks! 🧦

You all asked for more socks so I have been busy knitting away so we have more colours and sizes.

Socks are one of my favourite things to knit 🧶 especially as it took so much trial and error to design these so I feel super proud each time we knit a pair.

As always, we only use 100% wool so they are cosy, plastic free and comfortable and they are hand knitted by us, Rachel and Jamie.

Socks are a real labour of love, they take a long time to make and then you have to make the second sock 🙈🤭!! So these will be available in super limited quantities of finished socks and we will take on a few commission socks too in choice of size and colour so we can keep up with orders.

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Callington

Website

http://www.thedorothydays.com/

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