About PD Quilling

What We Do

PD Quilling is an independent business selling all things quilling, with an ever-expanding range of paper, tools and kits. We sell single packs of paper to give you the flexibility to create your own masterpiece, as well as mixed packs to get you started.

All our products are high quality, only selling the best that is available to ensure that you are working with the best paper and tools. Our tool range is the largest in the UK from an independent supplier, ensuring you have what you need to create your work, or to follow one of our kits.

We have an evolving range of kits, from the beginners and ultimate beginners kit to pictures and also 3D kits, taking your art and making it a real statement. All the kits have full instructions on how to quill and how to make the final piece. Many of them giving you new ways of working with the paper to follow on and create your own if that is what you wish.

We plan to expand the range of papers that we offer and hope to eventually offer the full 92 colours of Japanese Tant paper.

How PD Quilling started

On 30th June 2024, Rachel, owner of The Quirky Quillers Shop, put a simple line at the end of an email to me saying –

“So if you’ve ever fancied becoming a quilling supplies shop, do let me know!!”

Even though I was in a paid job at the time, with the support of Nic (my husband) I thought why not? The plan was to take the summer to set everything up, with a view to going live at the end of October.

However, life never goes to plan and due to personal reasons Rachel did not have the time to continue with the store. So, within 3 weeks of the first email, I had taken on fulfilling the Quirky Quillers orders to ensure that everyone could continue to get their quilling supplies.

Whilst I was fulfilling orders in the background my web development team of Mercari Monkey (run by Nic) was busy designing, building and populating the ecommerce website with over 250 products (with a little help from me!), whilst I worked on designing the logo and getting all the marketing materials ordered and everything else that needed to be done to get a new business set up from scratch.

I also needed to choose a name I went with PD Quilling as I already run Purple Days, a shop where I sell my quilled jewellery and pictures – Purple Days Quilling Supplies was a bit of a mouthful, so we shortened it to PD Quilling.

Only a couple of months after that first message, on the 2nd September 2024 PD Quilling went live, giving quillers a great shopping experience for all their quilling paper, tools and kits.

The person behind PD Quilling

Hi, I’m Kate, owner of PD Quilling, with a lot of technical and moral support from my husband Nic. We live in a small village in West Yorkshire and have 3 children, 1 of which is already married! We also have 2 very demanding cats.

As well as owning PD Quilling I also have my craft shop – Purple Days, where I sell all my paper quilled art – pictures, jewellery, cards, decorations and magnets.

I have always loved crafting, and have tried various thing, including sewing, crochet, lino printing, polymer clay and the list could go on. I find any craft therapeutic, a time just for me, to relax and just think about the craft I am doing. I ‘found’ paper quilling around 2019, when I saw a friends birthday card that had been quilled, I was fascinated and wanted to give it a go.

It started as a hobby, making cards and pictures for friends and family, and developed into a business – Purple Days. I bought my paper quilling supplies from various places, but my favourite place was The Quirky Quillers shop run by Rachel Warrillow.

I love paper quilling and want to spread the word to everyone about this amazing craft.