Sis Boom Super Fan: Meet Lisa Brosnan of Summer Lillies

From time to time, we enjoy featuring some of our biggest fans. In a time of mass production and clothing trends lasting one season, we love featuring these creative men and women who champion handmade and vintage. We hope this holiday season, you’ll make a loved one a gift or shop a small business online and support handmade. We couldn’t do what we do without all these Sis Boom-loving artisans around the world!

My name is Lisa Brosnan, owner and designer of Summer Lillies. I live in Bunbury, WA with my husband, 2 daughters (Lillian and Summer) and my 2 golden retrievers (Diago and Soda).

I come from a very creative family, my mother, grandmother and aunties are all quilters and bear and doll makers. So I have grown up appreciating anything handmade. Even my dishcloths are made by my grandmother. After I had my second daughter Summer, I became obsessed with handmade and discovered the huge handmade world in Australia! My husband purchased me a new sewing machine, and I started playing around with patterns, modelling them on my daughters. My friends all started requesting outfits, which was how Summer Lillies came about. It was an outlet for my creative side. And even though it started as a hobby, it is now my full time job. SL runs from a studio in my own home, and is still inspired by Lilly and Summer.

I was on Etsy one day browsing fabrics, when i saw my first JPAG fabric… it was Happy Land Claudia, and it stole my breath. I very quickly became a stalker of her collections. Buying in all new collections, and sourcing out all her older pieces too. Too this day Claudia is still one of my absolute favs! I love to use Jennifer’s designs so much, because I feel they represent my own tastes and styles… They are bold and loud and a little different, but still delicate, pretty, floral, and very feminine. Her collections are always so breathtaking, that’s its hard not to pick up one her fabrics and not be inspired to create! She is constantly designing new collections, so i always have lots of her new fabrics to keep me going! I am obsessed with everything she creates. I have some of her paintings in my studio, to compliment my huge JP stash! Summer Lillies adores JP!

The fabric that started it all! Claudia from Happy Land.

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One of Lisa’s pups looking dapper in a Melody scraf from Beauty Queen.
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Outfits in Phyllis and Melody from Good Company
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Sweet dress in Hillary and flutter sleeves in Figgy from the Nostalgia line.
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High-waisted romper in Gretchen from Color Brigade
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