Serious sewing skills, taught without taking ourselves too seriously. Build confidence, make something brilliant, and find your people in a welcoming, creative environment.
Hands on classes for curious beginners and confident makers. Learn practical skills, tackle a new project, and leave with something you are genuinely proud to have made.
Build community, learn new skills, and find fresh inspiration in an unforgettable destination. Make, explore, and return home with new ideas, new confidence, and new creative connections.
One on one guidance shaped around you and your project. Get expert help with fit, construction, patterns, techniques, or the idea you are finally ready to bring to life.
Saturday August 8, 2026 (10-1)
Never touched a sewing machine?
This is where you start.
Saturday August 8, 2026 (2-6)
Add a reveal. Build a tear away skirt or cape with quick release closures.
Saturday September 12, 2026 (noon-6)
Master sequin fabric and sew a mini dress or tank fit to your body. Fabric provided.
Two accomplished costumers, one shared mission:
help you build the fantasy, stitch by stitch.
Costume designer and maker with decades of experience spanning opera houses to drag stages. Her career began at the San Francisco Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, then continued at Pacific Opera Victoria after she moved to Vancouver Island. She's the frequent collaborator and co-designer behind Jimbo's looks on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, building every piece to tell a story and fit its performer exactly, whether the stage is an opera house or a drag runway.
A queer femme sewing instructor and maker living in Victoria, BC. Before teaching, she spent eight years in costuming, including four at the Portland Opera Costume Shop, learning to shape garments for real bodies in motion. She's the former Department Head of Fashion Design at Pacific Design Academy and leads the sewing program at the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria. She earned her PhD in Geography in 2021, then returned to the work that feels like home: fibre arts, craft, and community.
We’re always looking for fresh projects and skills to teach. Tell us what you’d love to learn.
Bring us the project, pattern, fitting problem, or technique that has you stumped. Tell us what you are working on and where you need help, and we will get in touch to arrange a private session tailored to you.
