When Victoria from As It Seams asked for participants for her From My Mother to Me series, I knew right away I wanted to take the opportunity to tell the story of how my mother shared sewing (and creativity in general)Â as a passion with me. I could tell you about the prairie style dress she {…Continue Reading}
Hopefully, one of the things you’ll receive this Mother’s Day is a little time for sewing. Â If you do, I’ve got you covered with a little Mom’s Day sale: This excludes printed patterns and multi-pattern bundles, but you can get all the parts of those bundles with the larger discount by adding them separately. Â Use {…Continue Reading}
Browsing on Amazon, one of the cool things for books is the “Look Inside” feature.  It’s a great way to virtually flip through the pages and decide if the book is what you’re looking for.  That’s what I want to do for my patterns – give a tour to help you make a buying decision. You {…Continue Reading}
Satya season is coming around again! Â The first Satya Romper I made for Arden still fits, but there isn’t any extra room to spare. So I thought I’d make Arden a new one and pass the original to Hadley. Â In my eagerness to make sure there was a little room to grow, I made this {…Continue Reading}
I finally listed my printed patterns in my shop! Â The holdup was twofold: I was trying to figure out shipping on a physical product, and I wanted to have a single listing for the patterns with a toggle for the type. Â After some tinkering with my e-commerce program I finally figured it out! Â As for {…Continue Reading}
G’day! Â Today’s my stop on the Sewpony Vintage Miss Polly Dress pattern tour! Â Suz is an Australian designer, so I thought a little Aussie greeting was in order 😉 Â Take 15% off Miss Polly and the rest of the Sewpony Vintage patterns with code MISSPOLLY15 through April 15. Miss Polly has many cohesive options for {…Continue Reading}
Welcome to the first Fitting Files post! Â I intend for this to be a regular post here on A Jennuine Life as a companion to my Jennuine Design patterns. Â This post will cover how to make a narrow shoulder adjustment specifically for the Satya Romper pattern. While kids generally require fewer fitting adjustments than adults, {…Continue Reading}
Wasn’t the Naples Dress blog tour amazing?  I’m really impressed with how much variety we saw with one pattern and a few fabric lines from Art Gallery! I want to say a special thank you to Stephanie and the shipping team from Art Gallery for supplying fabrics to our tour participants and me.  While most of {…Continue Reading}
It’s always bittersweet coming to the end of a tour, and that’s where we are today on the Naples Dress blog tour. First up today is fellow designer Mel from Filles à Maman with a duo of Naples Dresses for her two daughters.  I love Mel’s designs so having her on the tour is quite an honor! {…Continue Reading}
We’ve been having fun seeing all the amazing Naples dresses and tunics so far, are you ready for more? Another familiar face around Jennuine Design is Shelly from Sew Shelly Sew.  She’s tested with me from the beginning and I know with every test she’ll be the first one to ask when she can try it {…Continue Reading}
