We are located in Chadds Ford, PennsylvaniaSummer Sewing Camps Schedule – (Check Availability at Bottom of Page)2024 Sewing Camps: Love to Sew Studio offers a variety of summer sewing camps for kids ages 8-18 to cater to every young seamstress’s goals! Beginner campers start with our Learn to Sew Camp, where they master the basics and make fun projects of their choice! Afterwards, campers can choose from a number of focuses. Students interested in Fashion Design and Costuming can take our Fashion and Costume Design Camp, Novice Designer Camp, and the Rock the Runway Series. Crafty Campers can take the Craft Camp, as well as the newly added My American Girl Doll Goes Glamping Camp and Designing and Sewing for My American Girl Doll Camp! Quilters can take the Quilting Camp and this year’s Butterfly Quilt Camp. |
Learn to Sew Camp
Duration: One week, either full day or half day. (Only half day is required to move onto other camps.) Skills You Will Learn: Students will learn parts of the machine, how to thread the machine, how to make a bobbin, straight stitch, reverse, zigzag, how to seam finish, and more. Projects: During this week of camp students can make a wide variety of projects: a drawstring bag, fabric art, a 9-patch pillow, p.j. shorts, a skirt, small stuffed animal, etc. |
NEW FOR 2024: ADVANCE CAMP: STUDY MY ONLINE FASHION COLLEGES NOTES AND BOOKS Camp
Duration: One week of full day camp . Skills You Will Learn: Advanced students will learn skills like altering patterns, sewing terms and techniques, fabric choices, high level skills and terms, and more. |
Fashion and Costume Design Camp
Camp Overview: If you love to sew and want to make your own clothes, then this camp is for you! Start with simple projects and work your way up to more intense outfits. You will be working at your own pace and learning new skills. Duration: One week of full day camp. Skills You Will Learn: Sewing basics, working with patterns, reading patterns, finishing techniques, seam finishes, and more, depending on experience level. Projects: During this week of camp you will make at least one complete outfit or more, depending on the difficulty and detail of each garment. Most campers make clothes for their own wardrobe. You can make daywear, evening wear, costumes, and even clothes for men and toddlers! |
NEW FOR 2024: ADVANCE CAMP: GET CERTIFIED ON OUR EMBROIDERY MACHINE Camp
Duration: One week of full day camp. Skills You Will Learn: How to embroider on towels, how to make patches, how to embroider on clothes, how to make free-standing lace from the machine, and more. |
Rock the Runway Series Camp
Duration: Two or more weeks of full day camps. Skills You Will Learn: Sewing basics, working with patterns, reading patterns, finishing techniques, seam finishes, and more. Advanced students can learn skills like altering patterns, draping techniques, and more. |
NEW FOR 2024: ADVANCE CAMP: LEARNING HOW TO USE OUR SERGER.
Duration: One week of full day camp. Skills You Will Learn: Advanced students will learn the skills it takes to run and operate the serger. |
Craft Camp
Camp Highlight: Come and spend your week making as many crafts as time allows! Duration: One week, half day or full day camp. Skills You Will Learn: Sewing curves, pivoting, hand sewing techniques, stuffing, tricks, secrets, and shortcuts in making crafts. Projects: It’s up to you! Come make stuffed animals, silly monsters, dolls, pillows, decorations for your room, and more! |
Quilting Camp
Camp Highlight: You will learn the steps of making a quilt, and bring home a completed quilt! We have plenty of patterns to choose from and you are welcome to make a raggedy quilt, appliqué quilt, pieced quilt, or memory quilt during the week. Duration: One week of full day camp. Skills You Will Learn: Straight stitch, reverse stitch, measuring with fractions, how to press seams on a quilt, matching seams, speed sewing, sewing along the pressure foot, and more. Projects: You will complete a quilt during the week. If finished early, students are welcome to make crafts during the extra time. |
Butterfly Quilt Camp
Camp Highlights: During this week of camp you will learn the steps in making this big beautiful butterfly quilt! We have plenty of bright and cheerful fabrics to choose from but you are always welcome to bring your own. Duration: One week of full day camp. Skills You Will Learn: Straight stitch, reverse stitch, how to press seams on a quilt, matching seams, applique, stitch in the ditch, free-motion quilting and more. Projects: You will complete the butterfly quilt during the week. If finished early, students are welcome to make crafts during the extra time. |
NEW: Designing & Sewing for My American Girl Doll
Camp Highlights: You are the fashion designer for your American girl doll! Whether your doll needs a new dress, scrubs for work, a bathing suit for her beach trip, or a new Halloween costume, come and spend your week designing and sewing new looks for your doll. Duration: One week, half-day or full-day camp. Skills You Will Learn: Sewing curves, pivoting, hand sewing techniques, costume making, how to make a casing, and more. Projects: It’s up to you! You are the fashion designer. |
NEW: My American Girl Doll Goes Glamping!Camp Highlights: Get your American girl doll ready for her very first Glamorous Camping (Glamping) trip with her very own fancy tent and matching sleeping bag & pillow! Duration: One week, half-day, or full-day of camp. Skills You Will Learn: Straight stitch, reverse stitch, sewing curves, pivoting, how to sew a zipper and more. Projects: A full-size reversible tent to fit one American girl doll, a quilted sleeping bag with a zipper, & a matching pillow for your American girl doll. |
Summer Sewing Camp Details
Details: Instruction, Supplies, etc.
Our camps provide a positive, fun, and safe environment where kids can learn a valuable, life-long skill; gain self-confidence; explore their creative side, and feel pride in their completed projects and accomplishments! Campers receive colorful ribbons for each project completed that they can collect. Those focusing on fashion design earn rosettes for finishing an entire look!
Campers receive personal instruction to help them achieve their goals. We have an excellent 3 -1 camper/teacher ratio. Students with different sewing camp focuses (fashion, quilting, crafting, etc.) and sewing experience levels (beginner, intermediate, advanced) work simultaneously. This adds tremendously to our fun atmosphere of creativity and inspiration!
At our sewing camps, we provide all the essential supplies for a wide range of projects. This includes fabric, thread, patterns, zippers, dress forms, and sewing machines. For advanced students who are embarking on larger projects such as gowns, dresses, coats, jackets, and costumes, we encourage them to bring their own fabrics and trimmings. This allows them the freedom to choose materials that suit their specific projects and personal tastes. Since we have limited storage space for fabric, this also ensures that each student can work with the materials they love. We run an open sewing studio so that students can advance at their own pace and make projects that they find most interesting and exciting.
Days & Hours
Full-day camps run throughout the summer on Mondays thru Thursdays, from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, with a relaxing poolside 45-minute lunch break. We have both a morning session (9:00am – 11:30am) and an afternoon session (12:30pm – 3:00pm) for our half-day camps. Campers ages 8 & 9 are encouraged to attend several half-day camps to make the most out of their sewing experience. We recommend full-day camps for older students ages 10 and up. You can find our schedule and availability further down the page.
Early Drop Off / Late Pick Up
Parents, please be considerate and do not drop off your child early or pick her/him up late. Our studio hours do not allow us for extra time between classes. We teach classes, special classes, private lessons, and sewing camps back-to-back, and we do not have a waiting room. Please make all efforts to drop off and pick up within 5 minutes of camp time. If you need to drop off early or pick up late you must SCHEDULE IN ADVANCE for extended camp hours.
Extended Hours Camp Fees:
Early Drop Off (8:45am) – $30.00 per student per week or $10.00 per day
Early Drop Off (8:30am) – $75.00 per student per week or $20.00 per day
Late Pick Up (3:15pm) – $45.00 per student per week or $15.00 per day
Late Pick Up (3:30pm) – $100.00 per student per week or $30.00 per day
Camp Fee
| Half day, morning 9:00am – 11:30am | Established or Returning Student $245.00 | First Time NEW Student, First 1/2 Day morning Week $295.00 (This fee is for the 1st week only) |
| Half day, afternoon 12:30pm – 3:00pm | Established or Returning Student $245.00 | First Time NEW Student, First 1/2 Day afternoon Week $295.00 (This fee is for the 1st week only) |
| Full day, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm | Established or Returning Student $445.00
(after the first week of camp, additional weeks are $435.00, or 2nd child in the same family also doing the same week of camp is $435.00) |
First Time NEW Student, First Full Day Week $495.00 (This fee is for the 1st week only)
(after the first week of camp, additional weeks are $435.00, or 2nd child in the same family also doing the same week of camp is $435.00) |
- There are no discounts for multiply 1/2 day camps or siblings doing 1/2 day camps
To Be Noted
All camps run Monday – Thursday.
Full day campers need to bring a lunch.
Each camp type shown above is offered every week during the summer unless otherwise noted. Camps are run simultaneously. So there may be someone making a quilt, while someone else is making a skirt, while yet another student in the same week of camp may be making a stuffed animal. In our 19 years of running sewing camps we have found that this method works best, and each student’s project is inspiring and encouraging to the students who are seeing the process in that same camp.
Camp Registration
Every year since we began in 2001 every week of camp has sold out. This is in red and bold for a reason: Please register early to avoid being put on a wait-list. E-mail FIRST to hold your child’s place for camp. By doing so, you are verifying that room is still available.
Early Registration (before May 1): The student registration form and a $50.00 non-refundable deposit, per camp, per student, is due by May 1, 2024, and is required to reserve a place in the camp. The remaining balance is due in the studio on or before June 1, 2024. If the remaining balance is not at the studio by June 1, you will lose your child’s spot to someone on the waiting list and forfeit your deposit.
Anyone registering after May 15, 2024, the student registration form and full payment is required with registration to secure your spot.
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Payment
You may pay by cash, check, or VENMO. We do not take credit cards. Make checks payable to: Love to Sew Studio. Please be advised we have a strict NO REFUND policy, however, we do understand that circumstances come up, and we offer a generous exchange policy. Please see our Summer Camp Cancellation/Exchange Policy Page. More information can be found on our Studio Guidelines Page.
Wait List
If there is a week of camp you’d like your child to attend and it is full, please let us know and we will put your child on a waitlist. Even though it is rare that we get cancellations, we do get students that need to change their week of camp from time to time. We know that the uncertainty of the waitlist is inconvenient so we do our best to communicate with you through email updates.
2024 Summer Sewing Camp Schedule & Availability:
| June Camps | Morning Camp 9:00a-11:30a | Afternoon Camp 12:30p-3:00p | Full Day Camp 9a-3p |
| June 24-27 | am – This week is FULL | pm – This week is FULL | full day – This week is FULL |
| July Camps | Morning Camp 9:00a-11:30a | Afternoon Camp 12:30p-3:00p | Full Day Camp 9a-3p |
| July 8 – 11 | am – 3 spots available | pm – 3 spots available | full day – 3 spots available |
| July 15-18 | am – only 2 spots left | pm – only 2 spots left | full day – only 2 spots left |
| July 22- 25 | am – This week is FULL | pm – only 1 spot left | full day – This week is FULL |
| August Camps | Morning Camp 9:00a-11:30a | Afternoon Camp 12:30p-3:00p | Full Day Camp 9a-3p |
| August 5 – 8 | am – This week is FULL | pm – This week is FULL | full day – This week is FULL |
| August 12 – 15 | am – 2 spots available | pm – 2 spots available | full day – 2 spots available |
