- September 27, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
“If you had told me then, that I was going to have a business doing what I do in Cheshire, I would have said yeah, right.” Jill Reynolds, local artist and owner of Cheshire Glassworks, laughs thinking about how far she’s come in the same town she grew up in. The glass shop sits nestled on South Street, just past the intersection of Route 8 in Cheshire, adorned by an array of flowers out front; an eye-catching storefront for anyone who passes by. Born and raised here, Jill knows this town well; “I’ve lived in the same area, the same two square miles, for my whole life.”
In 1994, Jill began focusing on jewelry-making by creating hemp necklaces and a lot of macramé. “I loved going out and collecting beads, and finding different things to use,” Jill says. She’d always been captivated by the glassmaking process and was often inspired by artists’ work. “I had seen a couple of pieces that people had made that I was fascinated by, and…
