About Sussex Seamstress
Established in 2020, Sussex Seamstress was formed to create easy to sew, practical and wearable clothes in an accessible range of sizing.
And by creating tutorial videos with every pattern we also aimed to provide the best possible advice and instruction to both beginners and more experienced sewers alike.
Jayne Green, Founder and Designer, Sussex Seamstress
If you'd like to know about my background and where I trained and worked, including Zandra Rhodes Design and the Royal Opera House, then please watch my short "About Us" video below.
Sussex Seamstress patterns have featured on the TV show Sewing Street and in various sewing magazines including Simply Sewing and The Pattern Pages. Our patterns are available worldwide as either paper patterns or PDF downloads.
About Us Video
A selection of garments from the 1995 Zandra Rhodes spring/summer collection.
I made the majority of the dresses shown while working for Zandra Rhodes. Embellishments were by the hand finishers.
Examples From My Career
A costume I made for the Royal Opera House.
Our Pattern Names
Our patterns are named after towns and villages in Sussex, UK. Sussex is full of lovely places to visit. The map of Sussex below shows where some of our pattern names come from. If there’s somewhere in Sussex that’s special to you that you’d like to suggest as a pattern name, by all means send us a message via our contact page. We can’t promise anything, but we’re always glad to hear suggestions.