Meet the maker Gail Pingree

Demelza Designs is a small business based in Cornwall. All jewellery and knitwear is designed and hand created by the founder Gail who is inspired by the cornish north coast where she has lived for over thirty five years.

At the age of 17 Gail started to study fashion design at Oxford prior to moving on to attend the prestigious former 'Medway College of Design' in Kent.

In 1991 Gail opened her own baby and toddlers clothing boutique in Cornwall designing, making and selling her own designer childens clothing direct to the public for 14 years. Her work was purchased from people from around the world as gifts for either their own children, grandchildren, their immediate family or for their friends children. During this period Gail had been featured in a childrens BBC programme and interviewed on BBC Radio Cornwall along with endless articles written about her work.

In 2003 she decided to have a complete career change into health care attending full time at Portsmouth University. Due to becoming physically disabled she could no longer work in her new career so she returned back to designing and creating beautiful things on a much smaller scale within the limitations of her disability.

The vast majority of Gail's work is a 'one off ' because she does not like creating the exact same piece of work twice! She is a stickler for perfection and personally meticulously hand makes each peace of her baby knitwear and jewellery pieces.