Christmas Project Reveal, Part One!

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you had a wonderful holidays. I wanted to start off this new year by highlighting some of my favorite projects of 2024! Many of them were ones I worked on to give as Christmas gifts and couldn’t share them publicly until the secret was out. They were so much…

Celebrating Fifteen Years!

After looking back on the past 15 years and sharing many stories and photos with you all, it’s finally time to celebrate Jolene’s Sewing School’s 15 Year Anniversary! Wow, what an incredible journey it’s been. I sat down last week and recorded a short interview celebrating this incredible milestone. You can check it out below!…

Camps, Camps, Camps!

I’ve been doing summer camps ever since Jolene’s Sewing School began – which means this summer will be my 15th year! By a conservative estimate, I’ve run close to 300 camps, with around 1,000 students. Can you guess which camps I’ve run every single year since the beginning? (The answer is at the end).  I…

CLASSES CANCELLED 1/15 & 1/16

UPDATE: CLASSES CANCELLED TODAY, 1/16, due to impending ice storm. I’ll continue to update you all about conditions tomorrow! Stay safe and warm everyone.   CLASSES CANCELLED 1/15 My road is still a sheet of ice here in Happy Valley! Please check back tomorrow for more updates about classes and inclement weather this Tuesday and…

Holiday Closures and Gift Ideas

It’s that time of the year! Time for holiday planning, gift making, and lots of fun! As you prepare for the upcoming holidays, just a reminder that Jolene’s Sewing School will be closed: December 18th-January 2nd Please let me know if you have any questions! PS: Need a holiday gift idea?  Jolene’s Sewing School offers gift certificates!…

Where it all began…

A Trip Down Memory Lane… As we enter into the fall season, I’m reflecting back on the past nearly 15 years and the joy it has been. And as I continue to look ahead to Jolene’s Sewing School’s 15 year anniversary, I have been thinking back to the years the school was started. In 2009, in…