Featured on the Marly Bird Yarn Thing Podcast, Designer Joi created this easy knit top to complete the beautiful knitted and crochet designs created by Marly Bird in honor of her summer sew along. This knit top has been designed with the sewing beginner in mind and as an easy garment you can make to wear by itself or in combination with a sweater or sweater vest overlay. The pattern uses only three pattern pieces, and only requires 1-2 yards of fabric (see recommended Designer Joi Knits in our online store). The Marly Knit top can be hand sewn, machine sewn or serged (optional) and can be sewn using a quick deconstructed method or complete with finished edges. Select interesting fabrics to complement the knit yarns with an optional sweater overlay. The pattern size fits a 2/4 to a 26/28, with an easy fit style. Of course, you can make the top as loose or snug as you desire. Featured in an episode of the Yarn Thing Podcast August 2020. Also, featured on the Designer Joi Live Show on Facebook Live Thursday, August 27th. If you are new to sewing this is a great place to start. If you are an experienced sewist than use this pattern as a base for your wardrobing and add stitches and finishes to your liking. Check out Designer Joi’s recommended knit fabrics to complement this design. Available in a variety of colors.
Join anytime to have access to all club events for season 3. Includes access to Season 1 & 2 AND All Things Knit, and All Things Pants, both month-long series with over 20 lessons each. Watch Live or on your own time.
Holiday Red is a hand-picked wool by Designer Joi. If you have seen Joi’s amazing wool coats than you know she loves wool in the winter, but not just any wool. This Holiday Red is a beautiful blend with superior drapability and super soft to the touch unlike other wool brands. Ideal for a quick simple wrap with a decorative button, make a simple A-line lined skirt to wear out to dinner or dinner in, or in Designer Joi fashion make a lined coat with a fun contrasting lining of your choice. The weight of the wool is a perfect balance for a lined coat and light enough for a lightly lined skirt. Whatever you make, you will enjoy this for years to come. Holiday Red will take you from winter holidays all the way to Valentines.
In Create the Perfect Fit, Joi Mahon debunks traditional fitting rules and shares her measure yourself, measure your pattern style of fitting to help you achieve the best fit possible.
With detailed instructions and illustrations, she’ll walk you through the process of measuring your body, applying your measurements to a commercial pattern and creating an exact muslin that will become the base for any future pattern you sew.
Learn how one pattern of any size can be adjusted to fit any body type.
With Joi’s tips & techniques, you’ll eliminate fit anxiety and be sewing perfect garments in no time!
Skills and techniques for the fashion-minded sewist!
Award-winning designer and stylist Joi Mahon shares her love of sewing and fashion design in Designer Joi’s Fashion Sewing Workshop.
Whether you’re new to sewing or want to sharpen your skills, you’ll find solid foundational information for learning and mastering sewing techniques including seaming, draping, measuring, making a pattern and more. Throughout the book, you’ll find fun, hands-on exercises to help reinforce a new technique. The best part? Each exercise results in a finished piece!
Divided into sections including Design and Inspiration, Fashion Sketching, The Design Process and Sewing Terminology and Tools, Designer Joi’s Fashion Sewing Workshop makes sewing fun, easy and approachable–while still achieving amazing results.
Bolts of draping and sewing muslin are a staple in Designer Joi’s studio and a necessity for any sewing room. This is not the hobby muslin you find in mass retailers, but on-grain quality muslin on a roll. Various widths are available in quantities as low as 25 yards up to 100 yard bolts or more. This muslin is specially sourced personally by Designer Joi and what she uses in her studio to drape patterns, sew fit samples, interline garments, back quilts and more.
A frequent request when Joi teaches draping is to purchase muslin by the roll. The advantage is you don’t have horrible creases like folded and carded muslin and you can order many lengths and even weights from very fine light weight to heavy stiff muslin. Plus, because Joi buys in bulk she can bring affordable prices to you her students!
FEATURES:
Garment draping and fitting muslin
25 yards on a roll
Medium weight
LIMITED OFFER: A generous 60” wide for the price of 45″ wide
Unfolded single layer no crease
$175 for the bolt FREE SHIPPING for a limited time
Dropship or local pick up availability.
At this time we can only ship to the continental US only. Shipping out of the country is too expensive.
Other widths and weights are available upon request.
Allow approximately 2 weeks delivery from your confirmation email.
GUARANTEE: We stand by our sourced products. Due to the size of the fabric bolt and shipping logistics all sales are final on rolls of fabric.
This pattern includes a full size, half size and quarter size sloper front for use in learning and practicing patternmaking. This is ideal for using with Designer Joi’s Fashion Sewing Workshop Book, Designer Joi’s Create the Perfect Fit method of pattern fitting and live with Designer Joi in Perfect Pattern and Fit Club on FB (see the store for club info and to register). Practice design skills and learn how fit, design and pattern making works together not separate for the best sewing results This Pattern is FREE to Pattern Club Members in the Student Resource Section of the Club.
Please note: this product is temporarily unavailable. We have some exciting new updates. This pattern will be available very soon with many new features and options.
Mary Jane Blouse Featured in Threads Magazine
Available sizes 2/4- 24/28
Coming Early March.
PRE-Order now PDF pattern. (pre-orders receive an additional special digital gift along with the embroidery design)
Click here to view the Threads article that this pattern is featured in!
Cost $12.00 Digital PDF pattern
Be watching for a FREE online event Sew Along featuring this pattern.
Free Designer Joi Floral Embellishment Embroidery Design with the purchase of this pattern.
When you have the right tools you have better results. Designer Joi is proud to offer you her Perfect Fit Pattern Tool PDF Download. The Perfect Fit Pattern Tool Set includes guides that are used as a base for altering your patterns. There is no guessing. Place your patterns on the guides and the reference lines help you scale your patterns to your body for a perfect fit. Print off as many copies as you need for each pattern or laminate your guide and reuse it over and over again.
Join Joi on FaceBook Live to learn how to use the guide, and you will fall in love with pattern fitting once you understand how to truly fit a pattern.
All the features and uses of the Full Scale Designer Joi’s Perfect Pattern and Fit tool, but scaled in half scale for use with your half scale patterns. Half scale is ideal for on the go and also a great tool for those who are members of the Designer Joi Perfect Pattern and Fit Club. (See info in store.)
BONUS: for ultimate pattern making on the go (in the car, at the pool, on vacation and more) enjoy the adorable quarter scale pattern tool. This pairs with the quarter scale pattern sloper available in the store or free to Perfect Pattern and Fit Club Members.
For lessons on how to use these tools join Designer Joi’s Perfect Pattern and Fit Club.
You have learned from Designer Joi how important shaping the body is prior to fitting. Created by popular demand, Designer Joi is sharing with you her custom template for the shoulder pads used in her studio. This multi-layer padding template provided you with multiple layers that blend and shape all areas of the body. Use, 1, 2 or all the layers to custom shape your body for a perfect fit. Designer Joi will be doing a free tutorial on how to make the pads on Facebook shortly after the release of the pattern. Joi also provides you with a list of fabrics used in creating the pads.
You’ll be the envy of your next sewing guild or sewing group class with this adorable Chubby Button Bag Pattern from Designer Joi®. (Bag can be made from quilting cotton and other fabrics if you choose not to use leather or leather-like fabrics). Learn how to sew a real leather handbag using Designer Joi’s Button handbag pattern with a fun coordinating button embroidery design. Learn how to mark & cut a leather hide, how to sew leather, industrial tricks, make your own handle, how to seam leather, what thread and needles to use, how to embroider on leather and many more tips and tricks. Designer Joi’s® Button Handbag features a custom lining with zipper pocket, snap closure and fun handle. Sources for fun colorful and patterned leathers included in the pattern instructions.
Pattern Bundle Price $9.99
Purchase includes 3 Downloadable Files: PDF Bag Pattern Download, Downloadable Multi-Format Embroidery File, and Bag Instructions with color images
Note: Downloads will begin automatically after purchase. Please check your designated downloads folder.
Join Joi in a Video Class for this pattern over on Baby Lock Sew at Home www.sewathomeclasses.com
Show your love of sewing with this full of detail zentangle inspired sewing machine embroidery design. This design features layers of thread and color for a very eye-catching design. Begin by stitching layers of solid color, then a myriad of fill topped off with our fin detailed stitching. You will love this design and with our zentagle flair you can create this in multiple colors or in true zentangle black and white. The color options are up to you. This is a detailed design and will best stitch on a medium to sturdy fabric. Perfect for canvas banners for example. Features 4 thread colors, but you can use up to 23 colors. Size: 5.01×6.03 inches (159.9×127.3 mm). Original design created by Designer Morgan.
Size: Size: 5.01×6.03 inches (159.9×127.3 mm
Available in 14 file formats: PES, CSD, DST, EXP, HUS, JEF, PCM, PCS, SEW, SHV, VIP, VP3, XXX, EMB
Show your support for the mask making cause. Stitch out this design for yourself or someone you know making masks. Perfect for wall hangings, pillows, t-shirts, bags and more. Even stitch out the small version to make and wear on your own face mask. Let’s rally together as mask makers in this time of need. Thank you to all of you out there filling the need for mask making in our communities. This design is beautifully digitized and features up to 7 thread changes based on your preferences. Available in two sizes. The large size is approx. 5.5”x 8” (136mm x 202mm) and the small version is approx. 3”x2” (75mm x 51mm). The thread used to test this design was Mettler PolySheen 40 weight rayon thread.
Show your support for the mask making cause. Stitch out this design for yourself or someone you know making masks. Perfect for wall hangings, pillows, t-shirts, bags and more. Even stitch out the small version to make and wear on your own face mask. Let’s rally together as mask makers in this time of need. Thank you to all of you out there filling the need for mask making in our communities. This design is beautifully digitized and features up to 7 thread changes based on your preferences. Available in two sizes. The large size is approx. 5.5”x 8” (136mm x 202mm) and the small version is approx. 3”x2” (75mm x 51mm). The thread used to test this design was Mettler PolySheen 40 weight rayon thread.
Thanks to a long-standing relationship with a fabric supplier, Designer Joi is able to bring to you quality ¼ inch elastic to use in your face masks. We have a large inventory on hand and shipping daily. Do not get scammed online buying elastic or waiting for inventory. We have it now. You can see Designer Joi Live weekly featuring this elastic, and it is also what we are using in our local hospital (over 10,000 yards).
Elastic is ¼ inch wide in the color white. Elastic is sold in quantities of 20 yard for 80cents a yard and then flat rate USPS shipping. You can find several videos of how to use the elastic on the FaceBook Page Mask for the Cause. Designer. Joi also does a weekly FB live on her regular Designer Joi Mahon FB page if you have any questions you can ask her live.
Please note: due to extremely high call and email volume we are limited on answering questions on how to use the elastic or about the type of elastic, etc. Instead, you can find answers to this in all the videos on the above-listed FB pages and ask Joi live on Thursdays at 1CST.
We have put out over 2,000 masks in the last couple weeks alone using this elastic. It washes well and withstands high heat. Disclaimer: Eventually elastic will wear out, but that is after many many washings. We recommend Washing masks in hit water and then hang to air dry or tumble dry low.
COST $16.00 for one bundle plus tax 7% 1.12 and shipping flat rate USPS 8.90 for a total of $26.02
Shipping information:
Elastic is in high demand. The following procedure is what we are using for receiving and shipping orders. Orders from the previous day are processed in the morning and shipped in the afternoon. Your order ships based on when we receive your order and they are shipped in the order they are received. Occasionally we may be a day behind so plan on your elastic shipping 1 to 2 days after your order is placed. They are shipped USPSGround which usually takes 3 to 4 days based on location. You will receive email notification of shipping from the USPS. If you are in an area where shipping has been shut down it may take longer. Please do not email us any shipping inquiries unless you haven’t received your order for 10 days from the time you placed it. This will just allow for a buffer in shipping delays. But on average from receipt of order to your arrival is approximately five days. If we run out of elastic you will be notified immediately.
A Note on Packaging
In order to keep our costs low and our timing fast, please understand that we are taking a no-frills approach to packaging your elastic – it will arrive simply in a bundle inside a padded envelope.
I was so happy with our Designer Betsy Johnson Rayon Jersey I purchased the rest of it in this neutral olive (perfect for any skin tone) and soft teal. These will complement many printed fabrics with various colorways. A great price for this designer fabric. Once you use Rayon you won’t sew without it
Beautiful body and structure but not stiff. This fabric will be beautiful in any garment you design. Imagine a beautiful dress coordinated with a colorful scarf or cardigan.
Quantities are limited. Order early it will be a wonderful staple in your wardrobe especially going into fall and winter.
I LOVE this athletic stretch, Have you ever gone to the fabric store to purchase fabric for a yoga pant or casual legging? You know how dorky many of those fabrics are? Then you go to the mall and you walk into a store like Nike and they have these amazing athletic shorts for like $65 and you think to yourself that if you could get the fabric you could make them yourself? This is THAT fabric! In our pattern club sew along, we will be making a color-blocked legging or yoga pant- fitted or lose you decide. It’s your comfy pant!
I LOVE this athletic stretch, Have you ever gone to the fabric store to purchase fabric for a yoga pant or casual legging? You know how dorky many of those fabrics are? Then you go to the mall and you walk into a store like Nike and they have these amazing athletic shorts for like $65 and you think to yourself that if you could get the fabric you could make them yourself? This is THAT fabric! In our pattern club sew along, we will be making a color-blocked legging or yoga pant- fitted or lose you decide. It’s your comfy pant!
One spool of Mettler Thread to match the fabric. In the notes, please select which fabrics you want thread for. If no fabric is selected we will select for you.
$5.00
Mettler Sereflex thread is brand new in the US. It has 65% elasticity with ideal stretch and flexibility for all your sewing machine seams. If don’t have a serger don’t worry. This thread will be perfect and you won’t sew knits without it. Mettler threads are the best on the market, and Designer Joi uses them in all her studio projects.
I LOVE this silky stretch single scuba, Have you ever gone to the fabric store to purchase fabric for a yoga pant, casual legging, a fun hoodie or other? You know how dorky many of those fabrics are? Then you go to the mall and you walk into a store like Nike and they have these amazing athletic logo hoodies for like $65 and you think to yourself that if you could get the fabric you could make them yourself? This is THAT fabric! You will love the feel of this fabric! If you don’t think it is soft let Designer Joi know and you can mail it back! Plus it is super wide 62” and a nice quality. The edges have a nice weave that is balanced all the way through unlike some lesser knits that pull in at the edges. Joi’s stamp of approval. Pattern Club Members can see this fabric feathered in Designer Joi’s Athletic Top lesson in Unit 2.
Join anytime to have access to all club events for season 3. Includes access to Season 1 & 2 AND All Things Knit, and All Things Pants, both month-long series with over 20 lessons each. Watch Live or on your own time.
Holiday Red is a hand-picked wool by Designer Joi. If you have seen Joi’s amazing wool coats than you know she loves wool in the winter, but not just any wool. This Holiday Red is a beautiful blend with superior drapability and super soft to the touch unlike other wool brands. Ideal for a quick simple wrap with a decorative button, make a simple A-line lined skirt to wear out to dinner or dinner in, or in Designer Joi fashion make a lined coat with a fun contrasting lining of your choice. The weight of the wool is a perfect balance for a lined coat and light enough for a lightly lined skirt. Whatever you make, you will enjoy this for years to come. Holiday Red will take you from winter holidays all the way to Valentines.
You’ll be the envy of your next sewing guild or sewing group class with this adorable Chubby Button Bag Pattern from Designer Joi®. (Bag can be made from quilting cotton and other fabrics if you choose not to use leather or leather-like fabrics). Learn how to sew a real leather handbag using Designer Joi’s Button handbag pattern with a fun coordinating button embroidery design. Learn how to mark & cut a leather hide, how to sew leather, industrial tricks, make your own handle, how to seam leather, what thread and needles to use, how to embroider on leather and many more tips and tricks. Designer Joi’s® Button Handbag features a custom lining with zipper pocket, snap closure and fun handle. Sources for fun colorful and patterned leathers included in the pattern instructions.
Pattern Bundle Price $9.99
Purchase includes 3 Downloadable Files: PDF Bag Pattern Download, Downloadable Multi-Format Embroidery File, and Bag Instructions with color images
Note: Downloads will begin automatically after purchase. Please check your designated downloads folder.
Join Joi in a Video Class for this pattern over on Baby Lock Sew at Home www.sewathomeclasses.com
In Create the Perfect Fit, Joi Mahon debunks traditional fitting rules and shares her measure yourself, measure your pattern style of fitting to help you achieve the best fit possible.
With detailed instructions and illustrations, she’ll walk you through the process of measuring your body, applying your measurements to a commercial pattern and creating an exact muslin that will become the base for any future pattern you sew.
Learn how one pattern of any size can be adjusted to fit any body type.
With Joi’s tips & techniques, you’ll eliminate fit anxiety and be sewing perfect garments in no time!
I LOVE this athletic stretch, Have you ever gone to the fabric store to purchase fabric for a yoga pant or casual legging? You know how dorky many of those fabrics are? Then you go to the mall and you walk into a store like Nike and they have these amazing athletic shorts for like $65 and you think to yourself that if you could get the fabric you could make them yourself? This is THAT fabric! In our pattern club sew along, we will be making a color-blocked legging or yoga pant- fitted or lose you decide. It’s your comfy pant!
I LOVE this athletic stretch, Have you ever gone to the fabric store to purchase fabric for a yoga pant or casual legging? You know how dorky many of those fabrics are? Then you go to the mall and you walk into a store like Nike and they have these amazing athletic shorts for like $65 and you think to yourself that if you could get the fabric you could make them yourself? This is THAT fabric! In our pattern club sew along, we will be making a color-blocked legging or yoga pant- fitted or lose you decide. It’s your comfy pant!
I was so happy with our Designer Betsy Johnson Rayon Jersey I purchased the rest of it in this neutral olive (perfect for any skin tone) and soft teal. These will complement many printed fabrics with various colorways. A great price for this designer fabric. Once you use Rayon you won’t sew without it
You have learned from Designer Joi how important shaping the body is prior to fitting. Created by popular demand, Designer Joi is sharing with you her custom template for the shoulder pads used in her studio. This multi-layer padding template provided you with multiple layers that blend and shape all areas of the body. Use, 1, 2 or all the layers to custom shape your body for a perfect fit. Designer Joi will be doing a free tutorial on how to make the pads on Facebook shortly after the release of the pattern. Joi also provides you with a list of fabrics used in creating the pads.
Skills and techniques for the fashion-minded sewist!
Award-winning designer and stylist Joi Mahon shares her love of sewing and fashion design in Designer Joi’s Fashion Sewing Workshop.
Whether you’re new to sewing or want to sharpen your skills, you’ll find solid foundational information for learning and mastering sewing techniques including seaming, draping, measuring, making a pattern and more. Throughout the book, you’ll find fun, hands-on exercises to help reinforce a new technique. The best part? Each exercise results in a finished piece!
Divided into sections including Design and Inspiration, Fashion Sketching, The Design Process and Sewing Terminology and Tools, Designer Joi’s Fashion Sewing Workshop makes sewing fun, easy and approachable–while still achieving amazing results.
Beautiful body and structure but not stiff. This fabric will be beautiful in any garment you design. Imagine a beautiful dress coordinated with a colorful scarf or cardigan.
Quantities are limited. Order early it will be a wonderful staple in your wardrobe especially going into fall and winter.
Show your support for the mask making cause. Stitch out this design for yourself or someone you know making masks. Perfect for wall hangings, pillows, t-shirts, bags and more. Even stitch out the small version to make and wear on your own face mask. Let’s rally together as mask makers in this time of need. Thank you to all of you out there filling the need for mask making in our communities. This design is beautifully digitized and features up to 7 thread changes based on your preferences. Available in two sizes. The large size is approx. 5.5”x 8” (136mm x 202mm) and the small version is approx. 3”x2” (75mm x 51mm). The thread used to test this design was Mettler PolySheen 40 weight rayon thread.
Show your support for the mask making cause. Stitch out this design for yourself or someone you know making masks. Perfect for wall hangings, pillows, t-shirts, bags and more. Even stitch out the small version to make and wear on your own face mask. Let’s rally together as mask makers in this time of need. Thank you to all of you out there filling the need for mask making in our communities. This design is beautifully digitized and features up to 7 thread changes based on your preferences. Available in two sizes. The large size is approx. 5.5”x 8” (136mm x 202mm) and the small version is approx. 3”x2” (75mm x 51mm). The thread used to test this design was Mettler PolySheen 40 weight rayon thread.
Please note: this product is temporarily unavailable. We have some exciting new updates. This pattern will be available very soon with many new features and options.
Mary Jane Blouse Featured in Threads Magazine
Available sizes 2/4- 24/28
Coming Early March.
PRE-Order now PDF pattern. (pre-orders receive an additional special digital gift along with the embroidery design)
Click here to view the Threads article that this pattern is featured in!
Cost $12.00 Digital PDF pattern
Be watching for a FREE online event Sew Along featuring this pattern.
Free Designer Joi Floral Embellishment Embroidery Design with the purchase of this pattern.
One spool of Mettler Thread to match the fabric. In the notes, please select which fabrics you want thread for. If no fabric is selected we will select for you.
$5.00
Mettler Sereflex thread is brand new in the US. It has 65% elasticity with ideal stretch and flexibility for all your sewing machine seams. If don’t have a serger don’t worry. This thread will be perfect and you won’t sew knits without it. Mettler threads are the best on the market, and Designer Joi uses them in all her studio projects.
Bolts of draping and sewing muslin are a staple in Designer Joi’s studio and a necessity for any sewing room. This is not the hobby muslin you find in mass retailers, but on-grain quality muslin on a roll. Various widths are available in quantities as low as 25 yards up to 100 yard bolts or more. This muslin is specially sourced personally by Designer Joi and what she uses in her studio to drape patterns, sew fit samples, interline garments, back quilts and more.
A frequent request when Joi teaches draping is to purchase muslin by the roll. The advantage is you don’t have horrible creases like folded and carded muslin and you can order many lengths and even weights from very fine light weight to heavy stiff muslin. Plus, because Joi buys in bulk she can bring affordable prices to you her students!
FEATURES:
Garment draping and fitting muslin
25 yards on a roll
Medium weight
LIMITED OFFER: A generous 60” wide for the price of 45″ wide
Unfolded single layer no crease
$175 for the bolt FREE SHIPPING for a limited time
Dropship or local pick up availability.
At this time we can only ship to the continental US only. Shipping out of the country is too expensive.
Other widths and weights are available upon request.
Allow approximately 2 weeks delivery from your confirmation email.
GUARANTEE: We stand by our sourced products. Due to the size of the fabric bolt and shipping logistics all sales are final on rolls of fabric.
