Events
Camp It's In My Jeans
Make custom jeans with custom embroidery! Class with Caroline Cook (Charlottesville, VA) and Jessica Marquez (Brooklyn, NY), supported by Mary Evelyn Gunn (Western North Carolina).
Spring Chore Coat workshop
Make a stylish unlined jacket in a long-weekend workshop with instructor Caroline Cook. The focus is on perfecting the fit of your jacket, executing fine finishing techniques, and you will leave with a custom pattern and new one-piece garment!
Design Your Own Wardrobe with Cal Patch
If you have always wanted to make the clothes YOU envision in your head, here is your chance! Using the techniques from her book, Design-It-Yourself Clothes, Cal will teach you how to draft your own basic patterns for three garmentst, based on the measurements of your unique body. Then you will learn how to take those patterns and stylize them into endless variations. For each of the three styles, you will make a muslin, fit and correct your pattern, and finally sew one or more finished garment(s). Before you know it, you'll have a whole new handmade wardrobe!
Fall Overalls & Coveralls Workshop
Make overalls or coveralls in a long-weekend workshop with instructor Caroline Cook. The focus is on perfecting the fit of your chosen garment and you will leave with a custom pattern and new one-piece garment!