The Wait 

On February 20th, 2020, the PDF versions of Jalie’s new sewing patterns were made available to Jalie’s Creative Ambassadors. We chose our favourites and the marathon of sewing began.  For the Jalie 2020 pattern launch I sewed 7!

1 dress, 1 pair of leggings, 1 pair of pants, 1 jacket, 1 pullover sweater, 1 reversible topper and 1 dress/blouse.  I then sent the files to my local printshop (JB Print Solutions, Trenton Ontario)  and them printed on large sheets. 

At the same time I was working on a guest blog post for Fabricville, and was able to select 3 of their fabrics to work with.  A pale blue ponte for the pants, a blue tie-dye looking rayon for the blouse and a coral coloured linen blend for the dress.  My stash revealed the perfect fabric for the pullover and topper, so I sewed them up right away.  

Then we went on a 2 week vacation to North Carolina.  No sewing.  We returned home 4 days before the world turned upside down and we were all locked down.  The order from Fabricville was timed to arrive the day after we got home, it did, thank goodness!

The Challenge of Sewing during Covid19

My stash never embarrassed me and now I treasure it even more.  All my favourite fabric stores closed for Covid19 safety reasons.  11 bins of fabric, hundreds of spools of thread, bolts of interfacing, and zippers in many colours and lengths meant I could sew and sew and sew.  The only item I didn’t have in my stash was mesh lining for the jacket.   Fabric Fabric came to the rescue.  I ordered bright yellow, red, black and silver grey.  The jacket was for my hubby and he chose the exciting colour of black for his jacket.  (Now I have a stash of brightly coloured mesh lining, yay!)

Garment Overview

Maxime 4012

 4015

Elle 4015

Renee 4015

Bianca 4019

Florence 4020

I made (at least) 2 versions of this pattern, the dress is very sheer and will be worn with leggings.

Stella 4023

Romy 4024

Sew, that’s my contribution to the Jalie 2020 pattern launch, I sewed 7.  I have posts scheduled with better photos and descriptions of each individual pattern, but wanted to give you an overview.  I hope you’re as excited as I’ve been getting these ready.  If you haven’t signed up for my newsletter, please do it now, the link is at the right.

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Last year I reviewed the 2019 launch here.