Monday-Friday 9:30am-3:30pm

In this week-long camp, the campers will get to know their sewing machine, learn to press with an iron and learn to use a rotary cutter safely.  We will start with a hand sewing project (a fruit pincushion) and go over a few hand stitches. Then we will begin to create straight stitch projects like a pencil roll-up holder, a hair twisted headband, and a pillowcase. We will learn how to put in a zipper and make a zippered pouch. We will learn to sew some layers with batting and create several placemats and make some mug rugs from selvages.  And we will create a boxed corner reversible tote bag and create an apron. With all of these projects we will reinforce the techniques to learn our machines, how to operate them safely and best practices with a rotary cutter and an iron. The camp is open to any student ages 10 and up.

Bring a sack lunch, a working sewing machine, some notions (sewing scissors, a seam ripper and some empty bobbins) for us to use over the course of the camp. Tuition is $260 which includes all the materials for all 9 projects. 

The camper will be able to pick their materials out for each project over the course of the week. The fabric requirements are:

1. Hand sewing Pincushion: felt and stuffing (provided)

2. Pencil case: 2 fat quarters and a piece of canvas and some elastic.

3. Twisted Headband- 1 Fat Quarter

4. Pillow Case: ¾ yard for the main body, ¼ yard for the cuff.

5. Zippered pouch: 2 coordinating Fat Quarters, a piece of fusible foam.

6. 3 Place mats: 2 coordinating ½ yard cuts, batting scraps

7. Mug Rugs- selvages- provided.

8. Reversible Tote Bag- 1 yard of toweling, 1 yard of lining, pocket fabrics, 1 yard of webbing for handles, piece of fusible interfacing for pocket linings.

9. Apron from a panel (sale panels)

We are excited to offer our beginning camp twice this summer! We can’t wait to meet you!