Freda Lilly - Designer of Pattern

Freda Lilly - Designer of Pattern Hannah 🎨 Freda Lilly | 100% Human. 0% Artificial. | Hand-drawn surface pattern design | Licensing available | fredalilly.com Hello lovely, I’m Freda Lilly.

Artist, Illustrator and quiet emotional world builder. My work lives somewhere between pattern, memory and feeling. I use colour and drawing as a way to slow things down and make sense of the world when it feels too loud. I came to art through necessity. After years of living with undiagnosed CPTSD, drawing became a calm place i could return to again and again. What began as a private way to cope

slowly grew into something i could share. Today my work moves across illustration, pattern and storytelling. Each piece is made gently and with intention. I think of it less as decoration and more as atmosphere. Something to live with rather than simply look at. Freda Lilly is a soft space for sensitive people. For thoughtful interiors. For anyone who feels deeply and wants to feel at home in what surrounds them. If something here resonates with you, i’m really glad you found it.

💛 Freda Lilly

Get your teeny tiny violins away, this isn't that kind of post.I moved around a lot as a kid, in a time before technolog...
01/08/2026

Get your teeny tiny violins away, this isn't that kind of post.

I moved around a lot as a kid, in a time before technology made it easy to hold onto anyone. Friendships kept slipping through my fingers before they'd even properly started, and for a long time I assumed that was just how it worked for me.

Then I grew up, and somehow ended up with the most incredible women in my corner. This weekend was garden parties, neon face paint, dancing, laughing until it hurt, and a genuinely heroic amount of pizza. The kind of friendship that shows up, holds you steady, and cheers loudest when you need it.

Turns out all those misfired childhood friendships were just clearing the way for the right ones.



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I love the sun. I need the sun. I would die for the sun.I would also like the sun to stop glaring directly onto my scree...
31/07/2026

I love the sun. I need the sun. I would die for the sun.

I would also like the sun to stop glaring directly onto my screen while I'm trying to draw, because the ongoing chess match between me, my tablet, and a giant burning star is starting to wear thin, and I daren't say that out loud in case the sun takes it personally and leaves for the winter early.

Anyway. Meet Violet Quills, part of my Forbidden poetry collection. I set out to make something my teenage daughter would actually approve of, and somehow landed on a pattern that would look completely at home in an autumn collection. Moody plum, feathers, a scattering of tiny botanical poetry.

Hand drawn, no shortcuts, no AI.

Link to license if it's calling to you too.

https://www.fredalilly.com/tiers



Freda Lilly. 100% Human. 0% Artificial. Always. 🌿

I am about to ask a favour, so let me be upfront: this one involves signing up for something, and I know that is the lea...
31/07/2026

I am about to ask a favour, so let me be upfront: this one involves signing up for something, and I know that is the least appealing sentence on the internet.

Herbarium is up for voting in a Spoonflower design challenge. It is a herb study page, every plant drawn and labelled by hand, thyme and lavender and rosemary and sage, with little notes in the margins about pruning and attracting bees. No AI anywhere near it, as always.

If you can spare two minutes to register and vote, I would be genuinely grateful. Link in the comments.

Freda Lilly. 100% Human. 0% Artificial. Always. 🌿

I gave myself permission to draw badly this week. Turns out that's exactly what Fantasy Fields needed.I've been followin...
30/07/2026

I gave myself permission to draw badly this week. Turns out that's exactly what Fantasy Fields needed.

I've been following Kathryn Croxson (), an Australian-born muralist and visual storyteller now based in Oxford, and something about the joy in her work nudged me to stop planning every stitch and just let the stylus wander. The result is this patchwork farmland, aerial hills, tiny sheep, a wonky little cottage tucked into the valley, all a bit looser and a lot more fun than my usual precision.

Hand drawn, no shortcuts, no AI. Now live as a wall mural on Happywall click the link below to create your amazing space!

https://www.happywall.com/fantasy-fields-cork-patchwork-farmland-wallpaper



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How I dream of one day being featured by 🐟🍋This is Farmers Harbour, a pattern that tells the story of my childhood summ...
28/07/2026

How I dream of one day being featured by 🐟🍋

This is Farmers Harbour, a pattern that tells the story of my childhood summers in Scarborough, my grandad's heritage in the fish and chips industry, and my lifelong love of seafood.

Oyster shells, line-caught fish wrapped in paper, a lemon stall dressed like a beach hut, it's all memory dressed up as pattern.

First week of the school summer holidays felt like exactly the right week to bring her back out. Available to buy:

https://www.patterned.com/art/farmers-harbour-m3kgr

I love when I surprise myself and create a pattern that looks so at home in its environment that it looks as though it h...
27/07/2026

I love when I surprise myself and create a pattern that looks so at home in its environment that it looks as though it has been styled by Ginny Macdonald Design.

A proud moment. This is Farmyard Fayre, available now on fredalilly.com.

I used to catch a compliment like it was on fire.Someone would say something kind and I'd have it lobbed straight back b...
26/07/2026

I used to catch a compliment like it was on fire.

Someone would say something kind and I'd have it lobbed straight back before it even landed. You too. Oh this old thing. Compliment ping pong, except there was no ball, just an energy of awkwardness bouncing between us.

New on Substack today, on learning to just say thank you and let it land. Tied to a new pattern from Magic Memories called Picnic Poets, born from an afternoon full of laughter and honesty with the women who matter most.
Link in bio to read the full piece.

https://open.substack.com/pub/hannahfredalilly/p/you-too-and-other-lies-i-used-to?r=84bx1f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

The truth behind the "creative business" of it all 😛Some days it's a beautifully lit mockup. Other days it's this, tongu...
25/07/2026

The truth behind the "creative business" of it all 😛

Some days it's a beautifully lit mockup. Other days it's this, tongue out, laundry drying behind me, hair doing whatever it wants, because that's also what running Freda Lilly looks like.

Jo Laing put it perfectly this week: "It's equal parts creativity and spreadsheets. Joy and self-doubt. Selling out one day and wondering if anyone will ever buy anything ever again the next."

Genuinely, yes. All of that, most weeks.

I work with intention. I create with heart. And I rest without guilt, even when rest looks like being silly in the garden.
What's one thing you wish people understood about running a small business? Tell me below.

24/07/2026

Bounded Bloom, my newest piece in Forbidden Poetry, moonflowers climbing through stacked books and moths drifting between the pages.

While I was deep in finishing this one, 's first book, My Life in Colors, launched with Rizzoli Bookstore, 25 years of studio work told entirely through colour. Loved seeing that idea out in the world.

Available now on Spoonflower & Patterned

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