How’s everyone doing? Â My amazing testers and I have been working to get the LOL Swing Top perfected for release. Â It’s at a point right now where most sizes are looking just about right, but I need a little more testing on the largest sizes for the woven version. Are you {…Continue Reading}
Hello everyone!  I’m so very excited to get the opportunity to participate in the fabulously philanthropic Skirting the Issue event hosted by Simple Simon & Co.!  I tried to go the extra mile and give you something a little special: a downloadable PDF tutorial. The skirt is a quick and easy sew for girls’ sizes {…Continue Reading}
As I was preparing to get the LOL Swing Top pattern ready for testing, I decided to give a knit version a try. And lookie there! Â It worked beautifully! Â If you follow me on Instagram, you’ve already seen this, but I figured I should get something a little better than cell phone pics. Â Yesterday {…Continue Reading}
Greetings everyone! Â I hope you had an enjoyable 4th of July! Â We are really lucky to live within walking distance of a world-class fireworks display that runs for three days over the 4th. Â Every year we load up the girls in their Radio Flyer wagon and have a little parade down to the riverfront. Â On {…Continue Reading}
Guys, I am so excited to announce the Matinee Dress and Peplum Top pattern tour! Â Right after I released the pattern, I had a tester tour, and weren’t they all amazing?! Now I’ve invited a whole bunch of my sewing blogger friends to sew up the pattern, and you won’t believe the amazing line up! {…Continue Reading}
Guess who never published the post I drafted to announce my Memorial Day pattern sale? Â Yup, that was me. Â So I’m going to extend the sale through the end of may ending Saturday, May 31 at Midnight EST. In observance of Memorial Day, I’m offering 20% off all patterns in the Jennuine Design pattern {…Continue Reading}
Hooray for Matinee! Â The winner has been chosen…. With the assistance of Rafflecopter, the winner of the $25 shop credit and both of my patterns has been selected! If your name is Christy, check your e-mail!
It’s the last day of the testers’ pattern tour for the Matinée, and I’m really going to miss getting to see everyone’s amazing work each day!  Haven’t they all been spectacular? Today we have a special treat for you – “we” being one of my fab-o testers Shelly, who has a stellar fabric store on Etsy. {…Continue Reading}
Today I’m at SNAP! Conference in Salt Lake City, so I’ll get straight to my amazing testers’ versions!: Stacey with From a Box made this cool peplum version with cap sleeves, and proved me wrong that the hem band was only for the dress!  I love how it pulls the sash fabric down to the bottom.  Paired {…Continue Reading}
It’s Day 3 of the testers’ pattern tour for the Matinée release.  Today I’d like to take the opportunity to share how this design evolved. The first time you would have seen the Matinée Dress was when I was competing in Sew-Vivor on Family Ever After.  The challenge was simply “Emerald”, which left the door wide open {…Continue Reading}
