Colourful Sewing, Jumpsuits and Living with Arthritis - Jen Legg's Story

In this episode of The Sewing Social Podcast, host Gemma Daly sits down with Jen Legg, a much-loved, colourful sewist and well-known voice in the sewing community. 

Jen shares her sewing journey, her unmistakable love of sewing and wearing jumpsuits, and how she makes projects that truly work for her lifestyle.

The conversation explores the emotional connection we build with our handmade wardrobes, embracing colour and personal style, and sewing with joint pain and arthritis—including the practical adaptations Jen uses to keep making comfortably.

They also chat about the Sew Recreate the Look challenge, Jen’s growing YouTube journey, and wrap up with a lively rapid-fire question round for some light-hearted fun.

Key Takeaways:

• Sewing has always been a part of Jen's life.
• Her first project was a lace top.
• Jen has made over 100 jumpsuits.
• She finds inspiration mainly from fabric.
• Memories are often tied to her makes.
• Colour has always been important to her wardrobe.
• Managing arthritis is a challenge in sewing.
• The Sew Recreate the Look challenge encourages creativity.
• YouTube has been a new but rewarding journey for Jen.
• Sewing is therapeutic for Jen. 

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Guest details:

Instagram: @jenleggsews

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction 

00:47 Jen's Sewing Journey

02:37 The Love for Jumpsuits

04:29 Project Planning and Inspiration

06:25 Memorable Makes and Emotional Connections

09:08 The Colourful Wardrobe

12:52 Managing Arthritis in Sewing

15:56 The Sew Recreate the Look Challenge

20:19 Embracing YouTube: A Personal Journey

23:10 Future Plans and Sustainable Sewing

25:21 Fun and Games: This or That

29:19 Outro 

Transcript

Gemma Daly (00:42)

Jen, welcome to the Sewing Social podcast. I'm so happy to have you on today. Hello. I wondered if you could introduce yourself to the listeners.

Jen Legg (00:47)

Hi Jen.

So I'm Jen, you'll know me as Jen Legg Sews on Instagram and now on YouTube and that's me.

Gemma Daly (01:00)

Perfect! So Jen, I wondered if we could go right back to the start and whether you could tell us about your sewing journey and where it all began.

Jen Legg (01:10)

Sewing for me has always been in my life. My mum was a seamstress. My auntie went to do some more tailoring and things because she had five children and she wanted to get out of the house and learn a new skill. Again, she was always sewing and doing things. Knitting was one of the main things in the family. My grandma was a really good I just grew up with the sewing machine on the table, basically.

Gemma Daly (01:21)

Yeah.

Jen Legg (01:36)

moved when dad came home for his tea. So we look like the Von Trapp family. There was like the same fabric that most probably went through. There's me and my sister and then my auntie had three girls. I'm sort of the second from youngest. So all of this, all of the clothes used to come down to us. So me and Catherine used to love it when we used to get all our second hand me-mates. So yeah, it was really good.

Gemma Daly (02:03)

did you do any sewing through school? How did you get to where you are now?

Jen Legg (02:08)

So really I did sewing at school but I was a little bit blase there I think because it was in my life and because mam sewed for us I think I was like quite happy with her doing that really. I did dabble at school and I think my teacher was a bit gutted that I didn't go and go on to do sewing. I loved art but I didn't choose to do the sewing then and for me it was the sewing bee, was the first serious sewing bee like a lot of us.

got me back into it and I watched it and thought I could do that so I wanted to go. That's where it started from.

Gemma Daly (02:42)

Yeah,

yeah, brilliant. And can you remember what your first project was?

Jen Legg (02:48)

Exactly,

was actually, I've got this on today and it was a lace top, very similar to this, but it was boat neck, it wasn't as complicated as this one. It was a boat neck prima pattern. One of my clients, she knew somebody who died and she had loads and loads, she was a hairdresser, this lady, and she had loads and loads of hobbies like we all do.

Gemma Daly (02:53)

wow!

Jen Legg (03:11)

and they said would I like to go around and get some fabric and I'm sure the fabric was from there so I had tons of fabric that I could practice with and that's where it started really from there.

Gemma Daly (03:22)

Awesome. Now you're very well known in the sewing community for your love of a jumpsuit, aren't you?

Jen Legg (03:28)

Yeah, I think I'm an 80s child, I?

I'm a teenager from the 80s. So we were the original ones who started with jumpsuits. Yeah, and I do love a jumpsuit. Yeah, I don't know how many I've made Over 100, I think, in the time. Yeah.

Gemma Daly (03:40)

Yeah.

my goodness. Wow.

It's something that I haven't actually tackled before because I'm afraid of the fit. Now I know that's silly, but I wondered what is it that you love so much about them and can you give us any hints and tips when it comes to how to fit a jumpsuit?

Jen Legg (04:03)

So I think for a jumpsuit it's great because it's one outfit, you don't have to think of tops and bottoms and matching things. Fit, it depends on what you want because there's so many different ones out there from, I'm trying to think off the top of my head of different patterns, which none of is coming to my head now. Which it doesn't as it when you're in this circumstance. I don't know, think, don't be scared of them because if you've got a decent pair of pants.

a pant pattern, you can put it to any top that you want to do and we might have a solution for that soon too. Maybe he's jumping the gun by knowing what you're going to answer. But me and Sharlene have been in cahoots. But since she started saying she was going to do patterns, I was like, we need a Jen jumpsuit. So we have designed between us a really good one. A really good one that I think a lot of people who haven't.

Gemma Daly (04:37)

⁓ yeah.

Yeah.

Jen Legg (04:57)

tried the jump suit before would like it. So it's got a side zip it's got shirring, so it's easy to get in and out of and it's just really good, really cool, love it. So that will have been out I reckon by the time this podcast goes out.

Gemma Daly (05:07)

Mmm.

Yeah,

that's really exciting. Now tell us what your sort of project planning process looks like. Are you quite spontaneous or do you have a plan when it comes to choosing your makes?

Jen Legg (05:23)

Thank

And then very spontaneous. I just thought of an answer as well for that jumpsuit question as well as try and knit one first. Because knits are very forgiving. So I thought I didn't answer that question properly. So yeah, try knit. Yeah, no, I'm very spontaneous. I ⁓ have got in my room, I think everybody's seen my stash is quite big. And I

Gemma Daly (05:34)

Mm-hmm.

Good tip.

Jen Legg (05:51)

I don't know, I do think of things that I want to make for certain times but I will either suddenly buy a fabric and that will jump right to the top and I will have to sit with that and finish it like immediately once it's finished drying from the pre-wash. Otherwise, no, I just go for it whatever I'm thinking at the time. And I'm not one to sit about if I like what I want to make. I just go for it.

Gemma Daly (06:13)

Yeah.

Yeah, that's good. So your inspiration, do you think that generally comes from the fabric first?

Jen Legg (06:25)

I think mainly, the fabric, I think that's definitely more, I might see a pattern and think I want to do it. But yeah, I think fabrics more for me that just sings to you, isn't it? When you see something that you want. And again, it's hard to get buying online sometimes because you can't feel the movement, can you, of some of the fabrics. And then when they come, the fabric, the pattern will come to me afterwards once I've got it in my hands.

Gemma Daly (06:51)

Yeah, brilliant. And what do you think is one of your makes that you're most proud of? Can you pick one out?

Jen Legg (06:59)

Yeah, I love that Charlie, my Charlie jacket. I've just done the brocade one with Landon fabrics. It's the pink one with the yeah, I just and it's not it's more than just the jacket. mean, obviously Sharlene did the jacket. It could have been any pattern I picked, but obviously that worked really well for it. But it was just the memories and then buttons as well because we were all together and we had such a lovely weekend that weekend at the Stitch Fest.

Gemma Daly (07:06)

It's beautiful.

Jen Legg (07:25)

think there was about eight of us all staying, or nine of us actually in the end staying in the B &B. And I don't know, just that day, they just make me smile looking at them. So it's more, I love the fit, I love how it looks, but the memories that were in them buttons as well.

Gemma Daly (07:40)

that's lovely. And I think that's a pertinent point that actually quite a lot of memories and feelings can be wrapped up in garments or fabrics or anything like that, can't they?

Jen Legg (07:55)

Definitely,

yeah, definitely. Because another gorgeous make I did. It was really sad, but I lost a friend a couple of years ago. And she was one of my only friends that, ⁓ well, she had come in my sewing room because it was too, she was a very organised sewist which I don't know many, but she was more textile art. I did a degree with her she, like I said, she passed away and her husband kindly.

Gemma Daly (08:08)

⁓

Jen Legg (08:20)

gifted me some of her things and one of them she had like a pile of fabrics that she'd she'd already separated out to I don't know what she was gonna do with it actually but I made a jacket out of it and it feels like a hug from her so that was really nice to and that again every time I look at I just think of Emma when I wear that so that's really nice but yeah I think a lot of fabrics do provoke

Gemma Daly (08:34)

Mmm.

Jen Legg (08:44)

that are, I don't know, then you find the fabric for the special occasion that you want to go to. when Sarah got married, my stepdaughter, although we hate using the word step, but it's the easiest way to describe. When she got married, the fabric I had for her wedding, I had it for a year. I seen it and instantly knew that that was the fabric that I wanted for the wedding.

Gemma Daly (09:08)

That's really lovely. If I had to sort of describe your handmade wardrobe, Jen, I would definitely have to say that it's colourful. Have you always loved colour or is that something that's developed over time?

Jen Legg (09:22)

I've always loved colour, always. The brighter the better, normally. remember when we were kids, Habitat, obviously, shown... No, actually, Habitat's still around now, isn't it? But when it first came out, I think I was about 15, 16. And our bedroom, my and my sister's bedroom, was the Habitat, the primary colours of that. Although she hated sharing a room with me because I was far too messy for her.

Gemma Daly (09:27)

Thank

Yeah.

Thank

You

Jen Legg (09:48)

But yeah, I have always loved colour and I love colour combinations. It's not just the colour. I'm a bit obsessed by everything matching. I am my nail tech. I've just stepped in and got my nails done now. But today, I used to like really have a thing about if my nails weren't going to match every outfit that I wore. I've got over it a little bit now, but I'm still pretty. Eye make up everything has to match up to one day.

Gemma Daly (10:09)

You

Jen Legg (10:14)

that no one really sees but I know they're there and they match everything I'm wearing.

Gemma Daly (10:19)

Yeah, definitely. And if that's important to you, you should keep going with that.

Jen Legg (10:23)

I've told my kids when I get old if I don't know what I'm wearing, they need to make me match. They need to make sure that everything matches. I'll come back.

Gemma Daly (10:26)

Yeah.

Yeah, I think sort

of speaking to obviously a lot of ladies, because a lot of ladies sew, colour is something that you either embrace or you shy away from. I think once people have actually opened themselves up to living a colourful life, it sort of opens their eyes and changes who they are.

Jen Legg (10:55)

It's how you feel as well. I mean, hairdressing, obviously my hairdresser, but it's thingied for a black uniform, isn't it? And it wasn't until I came self-employed and I was making everybody wear black. And then I ended up being on my own in the salon, which it was meant to be. And I was thinking, I don't have to wear black for work. I don't have to do that. And just the thought of opening your wardrobe.

Gemma Daly (11:03)

Mmm.

Yeah.

Jen Legg (11:19)

and I'm not knocking black because I just bought some black recently which isn't like me but it's beautiful. It's just nice to be colourful and go out and I often get like in the Stitch Festival actually the other week there was a guy who just went you look colourful. So I go thank you. It's very dreary out there today and I'm glad I look colourful. And I do get lots of comments on that when I'm out and about so it's nice.

Gemma Daly (11:36)

Yeah. Exactly.

Do you feel

that you are drawn to certain colours more than others because you think you suit them? Or are you happy to wear everything?

Jen Legg (11:55)

I think I've always opted not to do the colour sort of theory as such but I do think I am attracted to colours are right for me. I don't know whether that's something like with hairdressing obviously I'm doing that every day picking colours for people's hair. So I think I've got just a natural ability to do that. I think I have worn, I think there was one colour, I can't remember where it was now but

Gemma Daly (12:01)

Mmm.

Jen Legg (12:21)

Yeah, I do know.

Gemma Daly (12:25)

palette is?

Jen Legg (12:26)

I think I'm autumn. I think I'm

autumn at the moment. I am absolutely loving the jewel colours, the purples, the rich purples, this green. I'm obsessed by green at the moment. The brown, we've all gone over to the brown side, haven't we? yeah, and I think it's a bit more subdued than I have been, to be fair. I don't think it's quite as bad. Not bright, bright, sorry, not bad. And I think like red and...

Gemma Daly (12:36)

Yeah ⁓

Jen Legg (12:52)

and pink my colour clashes. I mean I've done that before it was in fashion. So, but now everyone's doing it. I'm tending to stick back from it now because everyone's doing it and I like to be a little bit different. That's why we sew isn't it? So we don't walk into a room and have the same thing on as somebody else.

Gemma Daly (13:00)

you

That's exactly it. Now, sort of changing the subject a little bit. You've spoken quite openly about the fact that you have arthritis. And for anybody out there that also struggles with joint pain, I wondered how do you manage all those like fiddly sewing tasks? And do you use any strategies that other people might find useful?

Jen Legg (13:34)

So arthritis, if I just go into a little bit, because I think arthritis is such a massive sort of word to describe a lot of difference. So basically there's two types of arthritis. There's osteoarthritis, which is wear and tears we get older, a lot of us will end up with some form of that. But mine's the inflammation one, so mine's on the rheumatoid side. So basically your joints are attacking your joints.

Gemma Daly (13:36)

Hmm

Jen Legg (14:00)

I'm lucky that the biologics came out about 10, 15 years ago when I started to flare up with it and when it got So some of my digits don't work, but I've got damage limitation basically to what a lot of people will have suffered in the past.

So for sewing as far as sewing goes I've got like electric scissors, I use the Easy Grip pins, timings as well, like not doing too much because you will sort of add strain to your hands and what have you. But anything that just makes it easy and I think the good thing about sewing is that physically I haven't had a flare up for so long now thank goodness, but when I have had it

been on Pinterest or I've been looking at fabrics and I've been pairing patterns and my mind's been able to keep creative although my body hasn't been able to follow that through. So that's been a godsend really. In fact, I mean, we say so in your therapy, it has definitely been my therapy, definitely.

Gemma Daly (15:04)

that's amazing. And there's some really good tips there. And I suppose we sometimes laugh about it, don't we? That sewing is about 10 % of the actual task because you are, you're planning, you're picking out the fabrics and things. So it's good to know that you can still participate even if you're feeling poorly. But thankfully you haven't had a flare up in a while. So that's really great.

Jen Legg (15:15)

Yeah.

Yeah.

is really good because the and the thing is the flare-ups they're not very um they're just choose anywhere the flare-up I had before I went back to work in my thumb at the end of Covid wasn't the best when I had hairdressing to do um but yeah they tend to flare up different places so again you can you just got to adjust if you want to I always think if there's a will there's a way

Gemma Daly (15:33)

Mm-mm.

Mm-hmm.

Absolutely, absolutely. So again, changing for anybody that hasn't heard of it, you run a challenge with Sharlene, don't you? And you've done it this year, so it's already passed, but I assume you're going to be doing it again next year. Now, how did that come about?

Jen Legg (16:14)

it's Sew recreate the look. So that came about because we were talking about wanting to do something together. And to be honest, I'd just got out with a shower. I was like thinking that would be a really good thing because I think the main source of inspiration that myself and Sharlene get is from retail and couture and different things. And we do tend to sew that way.

Gemma Daly (16:22)

You

Jen Legg (16:37)

where we'll see something, again you'll see when the jumpsuit pattern comes out or when there's we've always had an influence from somewhere of what we've liked. And I don't know whether it is in everybody's bag to do it. I know from the entries, obviously I did two challenges this year because I joined Suzy on the Sew Together for summer one. We were inundated with entries for that one.

it was quite simple in fact to sew a co-ord where you do have to think with, so recreate the look and you do. I really want people to simplify it though because there's so many things that people can do for But yeah, I just, we'd love it and we've been on the same page. I think it's the fifth year this year it was. And it seemed easy this year and I kept saying, we're not doing enough, we're not doing enough. And I think it's because it was the fifth year and we know

Gemma Daly (17:04)

Mm-hmm.

Jen Legg (17:30)

the score with it really. So yeah, it's class and we do get the similar sewists entering because it's right up their street. And I do love from doing a degree and I didn't really appreciate at the time where you had a project and then you had the design development time. I tend to skip that. I have a project and it's done. I don't.

don't develop anything, it's just done. But I do like it in that to just simplify and experiment more, I think, with how you're come. I'm trying to think of what comes to mind, but the dress, one of the dresses, I think it was Sarah did, mean, all those ruffles and things, like the time-consuming things.

Gemma Daly (17:54)

You

Mmm.

Jen Legg (18:16)

⁓ I don't know her name so I shouldn't say it but she did loads and loads of pin tucks. That was amazing. It blows our mind every year. The creativity and the amount of creativity and talent there is in the sewing community is second to none. It's really, really good.

Gemma Daly (18:23)

Wow.

Absolutely.

So the premise of the challenge is to copy, well, I say copy, but use inspiration from, like designer items, that kind of thing, or, things you might see on the high street. Is that correct?

Jen Legg (18:48)

Could be somebody on Instagram you follow. This is what I mean. This is why we need to simplify it more. It could be something as, it could be like a pattern that you've seen done by somebody else that you want to see, that you want to do it. So we have three sections. We have a copy, not a copy, sort of like an inspirational closest to it. And then we have one that's been inspired by it and you've maybe spun off into your own little.

Gemma Daly (18:50)

Yeah?

Yeah.

Jen Legg (19:14)

area with that one and I'm trying to think of the fourth one, the third one. Why is my mind blank today? I know, I know. No, I'm not. Anyway, there's a fourth one, copy inspiration and I can't think. Anyway, basic. Did I say basic? Yeah, so the basic could just be a simple t-shirt.

Gemma Daly (19:20)

It's because you're not very well, Jen.

Okay.

Jen Legg (19:35)

Like,

could be the best, it could be loads and loads of different, easier things. that's why we don't want to just narrow it down to somebody like Sarah who did a Chloe copy of a dress. It needs to be, it can be anything.

Gemma Daly (19:40)

Mmm.

Yeah

Great, and when will that be coming around again?

Jen Legg (19:51)

no idea. Next year. Yeah, we never have. I think we haven't stuck to a time. I think like January, February, March, April, maybe as we are, we're indicted, aren't We like doing it in October this year because it was more autumn makes, So that was good. So we will just we get to a point and we said, we do it now? That's it.

Gemma Daly (19:54)

So watch out for that one next year.

Mmm.

Mm-hmm.

Jen Legg (20:19)

go for it. We're chill, very chill, myself and Sharlene, very chill.

Gemma Daly (20:20)

Both quite relaxed. Now you've recently launched your own YouTube channel, haven't you? What's like been the most surprising challenge or joy about doing YouTube so far?

Jen Legg (20:39)

So my YouTube channel I've actually had since I was, it came up saying 19 years of YouTube the other day for me. So it hasn't been something new, but it has been something new, new to me. didn't want to do it at first because I'm a doer and I don't really want to talk about I think what made me do it was on Instagram when I was doing stories and I always got the reaction from people as in the real time of doing things.

Gemma Daly (20:44)

No.

Jen Legg (21:07)

And I don't want to sit and just tell you that I bought this fabric from so-and-so and I'm going to do this. I just want to be wearing what I bought and done and this. So I think because I've just done it my own way, it's very candid. I don't really edit. I put things together, but I don't really edit as such. The joy's just been there. It's just been me and that's it. And I think it is.

Original to what I've seen of other people's and to be fair. I don't really watch anybody else's YouTube Which sounds really horrible. I watched Venus and Tamlin But yeah, and I thought of I just I don't know I find that when I'm so in I like so I If I if I want to find out how to do some are like a little tutorial things I'll look

Gemma Daly (21:39)

You

Jen Legg (21:54)

but other than that I have not really watched anybody so I had nobody to compare it to really I've just gone for it myself to how I found it but I am doing the vlogmas I jumped on it

don't really know what it is really. It's YouTube isn't it before Christmas? I think it's about Christmas. So this is a very mixed bag of things that I'm putting out at the moment and I have had a few comments but I did say, I don't know, day nine, is anyone actually watching because I'm out talking to myself and I got so many gorgeous comments back I thought, alright I'll keep doing this. they're only short 20 minute ones but it tends to be like in what I'm doing during the day.

Gemma Daly (22:12)

Yeah.

Aww.

Yeah, and it sounds like you're going about it the right way to be honest Jen, because we all over-compare ourselves anyway, so just getting on and doing it your way sounds like the best way.

Jen Legg (22:45)

Yeah, I can't say that. I can't be anybody else but myself. And I'll go on no makeup or makeup or looking like, I don't know, looking rubbish or looking good. We all have them days as well, don't we? So I'm not really bothered because sometimes like he says, are you putting that out like that? And I yeah, it's me. It's me. Yeah, yeah.

Gemma Daly (23:02)

Good for good for

So do you have any exciting plans coming up? Any makes,

Jen Legg (23:10)

So plans wise, sewing is, think it's gonna slow down to be fair. So hairdressing wise, my salon's getting sold. I just found out last week I need to be out of my premises by the fifth. So we're busy, and this is in my vlogmas at the moment, we're busy building a little sort of hut, stroke salon here for me at home. So that's gonna be there. And Leggy's gonna be retiring in November.

February. So the plans are next year, as soon as we've got weekends free, we're going to be out in that camper van wearing all the MemeMades that I've continually made for the last I don't know how long because I've been at home a lot on my own and Leggy's been at work. So that'll be next year. So I think it'll slow down. But I am trying to slow down. I mean, we talk about sustainability a lot, don't we, with MemeMades and things and I don't think

Gemma Daly (23:59)

Mmm.

Jen Legg (24:02)

really I'm sustainable because I'm making things but I maybe is not sustainable about from the amount I'm actually making because I do sew a lot. So I think it'll just be nice to slow down and enjoy what I've made to be fair. So yeah that's my exciting little little ventures next year really just getting in that campervan and ⁓ when we go like he's like you can take one dress. Okay and then we get there and I'm like

Gemma Daly (24:15)

Yeah.

You

Jen Legg (24:29)

all these clothes are coming out like my little Mary Poppins bag. I thought we were going to take them on dress. Oh well, I had to put this one in, I to do this. And I try and do it sort of little capsule. I still don't think I've just got this capsule wardrobe just right, but I'm still working towards that. So that we're away to York this weekend coming, so I'll see if I can try it, but it'll be hard I reckon.

Gemma Daly (24:32)

Yeah.

well that sounds like fun for next year anyway, lots of little travels.

Jen Legg (24:59)

I know.

Yeah, tons of travels. makes the world go around, doesn't it? Seeing and it's been really good this year when I've gone. I I have visited Susie in Spain. I reckon us sewists now could visit any country, any town, anywhere, and we could meet, have a meet up with somebody now. We all know each other, don't we? So well, so it's really good.

Gemma Daly (25:18)

That's right.

that's lovely. So just to tie up the interview, Jen, I like to play a little game of this or that, if that's okay with you. Perfect. So I know the answer to this one, but I'm going to ask it anyway. Bold prints or classic planes? Wovens or knits?

Jen Legg (25:28)

Yes, fine.

bald plants.

See, I like a mixture of both. I love a woven, like a really intense woven, but then I love a little quick knit in between, you know, so it just cleanses your palette for the next thing and you've got something to show within like two hours as opposed to you've spent a week making something. So I do like both, I think. I can't, I'm tied with that one.

Gemma Daly (25:59)

Yeah, that's it.

Would you prefer a statement sleeve or a statement collar?

Jen Legg (26:08)

Slave. Hands down slave. Hence this one.

Gemma Daly (26:09)

Yeah.

Batch cutting or one project at a time.

Jen Legg (26:17)

I wouldn't, yeah, batch cutting, but I don't know why and how I get through everything. But yeah, batch cutting. I'd love to be able to just have one thing on the go at time, but I don't. It's at least six or seven things, I reckon.

Gemma Daly (26:31)

An organized stash or creative chaos.

Jen Legg (26:35)

Again, creative chaos isn't it? Although my stash is fairly organized in as I can see it all, but yeah, then I'll start pulling things off. This will be good for this, this will be good for that. Totally.

Gemma Daly (26:45)

It's gotta be done, isn't it?

Tea or coffee?

Jen Legg (26:52)

See that's I'm a bit of controversy that I don't like either I've just done the retreat with Sharlene in Belfast and I got into herbal tea there So I'm now drinking herbal tea. So maybe if that classes as a tea side things. Yeah, how about say yeah herbal tea? I can't stand coffee. You can't stand the smell of it No, I can't stand that I like when we go shopping and stuff or when we've been in a leaguer He wants to go into like the coffee shop. I'm like, oh, okay

Gemma Daly (27:02)

Okay.

Yeah. ⁓ I love it.

Jen Legg (27:21)

I'll go shopping, I'll see you soon.

Gemma Daly (27:23)

Yeah,

bless you. Pattern hacking or sewing straight from the envelope?

Jen Legg (27:28)

No, pattern hacking definitely. I don't think I've saw much from the envelope and I'm not one to look at instructions until I've gone catastrophically wrong. But yeah, I'd like to be different.

Gemma Daly (27:30)

Mm.

You

A meal out or a takeaway?

Jen Legg (27:46)

Meal out. There's not very many takeaways around here and they're not very good. So that's maybe my reason, but I like to get dressed up and go out. So yeah, definitely meal out.

Gemma Daly (27:50)

Yeah.

Very nice.

A quick sew or a slow detailed make.

Jen Legg (28:00)

Yeah, think the mixture again, I think one goes into hand with the other. So definitely a bit of both really for that.

Gemma Daly (28:04)

Yeah.

and spring, summer or autumn winter.

Jen Legg (28:10)

Again, I love the spring summer. It's my birthday April and I love all of that time. But I would say, sewing-wise colour-wise is autumn and winter. So again, I'm a bit tied with those two really. But I do love it once everything starts getting fresh. get out of the longest days of 21st, isn't it? So once we start getting out of that dark nights and hate trying to get photographs in the winter is a nightmare, isn't it as well? So yeah.

Gemma Daly (28:22)

Yeah.

Ops, it.

It is.

Lovely. So where can people find you Jen?

Jen Legg (28:41)

So I am on Instagram, Jen Legg Sews I am on YouTube now, Jen And I think that's, I have got a, TikTok, yeah. I haven't really got away with TikTok.

Gemma Daly (28:50)

No, me neither.

Jen Legg (28:53)

I dabble a little bit, but no, I haven't got away with that. But yeah, mainly Instagram, mainly Instagram, I would have thought. And then YouTube. I definitely want to do more with my YouTube next year. Keep going with that one. Just exciting.

Gemma Daly (29:03)

Exciting!

Yeah, brilliant! Well, thank you so much for being an amazing guest and joining me today on the Sewing Social Podcast! You're welcome, you take care! Bye!

Jen Legg (29:13)

Thank you for having me.

and you. Bye.