We go to Camp Workroom Social and chat with our fellow campers about what this sewing weekend means to them. We both found camp to be such a magical, accepting, and heart-opening experience and we really wanted to share that feeling with the sewing community. Get an inside look at this amazing weekend and hopefully we will see you at camp next year!
Jennifer Wiese, Camp Director
“Camp is my most favorite thing EVER!”
Jennifer is a designer who believes that every woman can live a joyful, creative, and confident life. At her Brooklyn-based studio, Workroom Social, she helps women find their joy, creativity, and confidence by empowering them to create clothes they want to wear. She teaches sewists methods that make clothing construction easy and produce beautiful results that look store-bought, not homemade. Jennifer is a summer camp counselor for life and the recipient of the “Spirit of Wewa” award at YMCA Camp Wewa in Apopka, FL, her childhood sleepaway camp. It’s a dream of hers to create Camp Workroom Social, an excuse for adults to sew, make friends, and act like a kid again if only for the weekend.
- Workroom Social
- Miramar
- Camp Workroom Social Newsletter
- Camp Sasamat in Vancouver
- Camp Intensives 2017
- Camp Staff:
- Brooks Ann Camper (hand-sewing instructor)
- Fleur Hoare of Maison Fleur Patterns (swimsuit instructor)
- We Gather – Whitney Crutchfield teaches dyeing workshops in Brooklyn NY
- Flash Mob:
- Our canoeing group:
- Helen doing Archery:
- Raptor Center:
“We all break needles, and we all sew things on backwards, and we all forget things, and we all mess up…and that’s life.
We all do it. You are not alone.”-Jennifer Wiese
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You did a great job on the camp podcast! It was so fun to hear everyone’s voices again. For the first time I didn’t mind hearing my own voice. Well done, ladies!
Thanks Heidee! We miss you! <3
The feeling is mutual!
This was so beautiful!!! Made me cry sitting at work; brought back so many memories.
It was wonderful meeting you guys there!!! Camp was truly an amazing experience and this episode did it justice. Thanks
Thank you so much Ilonka! We were hoping to do it justice, so that means a lot. Hope we see you next year!
hurrah another great weekly podcast – now got to wait to next Tuesday for sewing fix !!
Thank you Michelle!
HOORAY! Fantastic episode! And I’m so thrilled so many of you loved my hand sewing class. Can we go back to Camp now?!?!
I want to also add a correction: Helen shares a tip from my hand sewing class but it sounds like she got it backwards. →Thread has a direction!→ When hand sewing, you’ll have the best results if you thread the end that comes off the spool into the needle (as opposed to the freshly cut end as Helen stated). The fibers are wound this direction and working with the twist will often give you less knots and tangles while stitching. An easy way to remember is that you thread this same end when using your sewing machine.
But also- It’s “probably fine” if you do it the other way “as long as you reach your goal.” 😀
XOXOXO
Thanks Brooks Ann! So mortified that we got it wrong after all that, LOL! Guess I need to come back next year and take your class again – dangit! XOXO
Omg I can’t believe someone from Carnation Washington was at camp, that’s 3 miles from my home! Way to go girls, I love your podcast and your energy!
Thank you! We loved making this episode! It’s a small world 🙂
Fabulous podcast. It must have took hours and hours to edit and produce it. Bravo ladies!
I see the camp is already sold out but I have already recruited two friends to come with me next year!
Thank you, Sandra! It was a labour of love. Camp always sells out super quickly so be ready when the tickets go on sale next year 🙂 You’re going to love it!
I’m sitting here by myself since the beginning of COVID.. in a state I was visiting and with my health issues, I’m now living in a new state with no one, let me stick to my point.
I would love more information about any sewing companion,mentors,schools,
I worked for n b c studio as a free lance hairdresser for 38 years. I’ve had a sewing machine by my side half my life. “ if I only had time “ was my deepest desire to sew.
Here I am all alone. Looking at my brother machine all set up with every notion next to it. Books and any reading material are stacked to the ceiling. I’m petrified when I look at the machine. I’m creative, I go blank when I look at the machine. Please help me with some advice on what to do I think the thread and tension choices scare me to death.
Catherine, thank you so much for your message! There are a few sewists that offer online private sewing lessons, like Lauren Taylor from lladybird.com. Additionally, topstitchatl.com offers online classes and events that you can get involved with. There are also lots of indie pattern designers that offer additional video class tutorials that you can watch and sew along with (such as Cashmerette and Closet Core Patterns). We hope this is a start for you, and that it helps you to get sewing 💕