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Jen Beeman | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | Designer, author |
| Known for | pattern design |
| Website | grainlinestudio |
Jen Beeman is an American fashion designer and patternmaker based in Chicago, Illinois. She is as the owner of the sewing pattern company and blog Grainline Studio. She is a graduate of Columbia College where she studied fashion design with a focus on pattern making and technical design.[1][2]
Grainline Studio started as a blog where Beeman, then a freelance pattern maker, wrote about her experience designing and sewing her own clothes.[1] She began working on the site full-time after realizing there was a design gap in the offerings of the commercial pattern making industry.[1] Beeman worked with her partner John Krohn, a graphic designer, to lay out her first commercial patterns. Krohn joined the company full-time in 2015 overseeing graphic design and shipping.[3] The motivation behind Grainline Studio patterns was described by Beeman in a 2017 interview with Making as "clean, modern designs that women can wear every day and that can be made again and again".[4] Her Archer Shirt pattern won the PatternReview.com award for Best Woven Top four years in a row (2014-2017).[5] In addition to selling patterns, Beeman provides step-by-step tutorials and pattern variations, and hosts sewalongs as part of Grainline Studios online offerings.[6]
In a 2014 Marketplace interview about disappearing jobs, Beeman talked about the human element of pattern making and the impact of mechanized production explaining that: "We're so removed from how our garments or products in general are made that they never assume that there's a person who does that".[7] Beeman has also talked about her experience operating a small business. She appeared on the podcast Love To Sew in 2017 where she discussed balancing professional and personal demands while running a company.[8]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Kirby, Megan (22 December 2016). "Jen Beeman, What's the Stitch?". DEMO Magazine.
- ↑ Carestio, Amanda (9 August 2017). "Grainline Studio interview". Sew News. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ↑ Glassenberg, Abby (8 December 2015). "Together at Work: When Your Spouse Joins Your Creative Business". Craft Industry Alliance. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ↑ Hoge, Carrie (22 March 2017). "FAUNA Contributor Spotlight: Jen Beeman of Grainline Studio". Making. 2. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ↑ [Unknown], Deepika (12 February 2018). "The designers behind the Best Patterns of 2017". PatternReview.com. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ↑ W., Alexis (7 July 2014). "Grainline Studio Contest Winners & New Pattern". PatternReview.com. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ↑ "Pattern making: A stitch in time?". Marketplace. 16 April 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ↑ "Episode 16: Work/Life Balance with Jen Beeman". Love To Sew Podcast. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2019.