Established in January of 2000 JSM Tailoring Tools proudly celebrates its 10th anniversary!

JSM Tailoring Tools (formerly JSM Patterns), a small business located in northern Michigan, is dedicated to making sewing easier and sewing businesses more profitable by inventing new tools and new ways of working and through teaching.

Joyce owned and operated JSM Tailors, a full-service tailoring establishment providing alterations, dressmaking and made-to-measure suits on Bainbridge Island, Washington for 20 years. She found that there were problems to solve in order to make the business more profitable, but the best solutions often took more time than was available while actively running the business. Makeshift solutions were applied. A move from Washington to Michigan in 1999 provided Joyce with the opportunity she was looking for. Without a shop to run, she could shift her focus to working on the in-depth solutions that would really make a difference for similar businesses. A year later, JSM Patterns was born.

With a degree in Apparel Design from Seattle Central Community College, a degree in Special Education from Michigan State University, 20 year’s experience running a tailor shop, teaching, coursework in computers, a problem solving nature and enough tenaciousness to keep going when times got tough, Joyce had what she needed to begin inventing tools and systems from the ground up with an eye toward teaching others how to use them. Although her original intent was to serve the custom clothing industry, most of Joyce's products are of value to all sewing enthusiasts.

Her current undertaking, the soon to be published JSM Pants for Women System, is a complete system for creating a custom pattern and fitting, constructing and designing custom pants. This is just what the sewing world has been waiting for!

As a charter member of the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals and a member of the American Sewing Guild, Joyce keeps her fingers on the pulse of the needs of businesses as well as individuals who sew for themselves. She operates a mail order business, writes for Threads magazine and trains home sewing enthusiasts and professionals in the use of her tailoring tools. She and her husband winter in Florida where she enjoys golf and continues to develop new tools designed to increase quality and productivity in the field of tailoring women’s clothing.