Pittsburgh seamstress Jen Rocket’s studio is located in Highland Park

Hello and welcome to my website! I aspire to share my skills and creativity in order to give life to beautiful garment design ideas, as well as bringing new life into those old or ill fitting garments that are so hard to get rid of.

I enjoy the challenge of making something that would otherwise not exist and also recreating designs from the past or present, even if all I have to work from is a single photo.

Feel free to email me, and I will do my best to accommodate your requests.

As a 4th generation seamstress, I was behind a sewing machine by the age of 5 and grew up sewing everything from doll clothes to costumes and eventually clothing with my mother and sisters. I have continued to pursue the art of design and sewing ever since. I started my formal education with The Art Institute of Pittsburgh for industrial design, majoring in special effects. I continued at Los Angeles Trade Tech for fashion technical design, and I am always picking up new information from books, the interent and experimentation.

Here is a short list of the services that I offer:

• Couture garment creation from design to completion, including patternmaking
• Garment re-creation based on an existing piece or a photograph
• Alterations of existing garments
• Upcycling and or restyling of existing garments
• Costume design and construction using such materials as latex, foam, leather, fur etc.
• Fabrication (view my gallery to get a sense of my full skill set)

Click here to download my resume.

Here is some of my work (more can be found in the gallery)