Camp Workroom Social

Camp Workroom Social belongs to the newest wave of adult summer camps: the creator-run camp. It is organized around Jennifer Wiese (instagram/craft community), whose audience is best described as founder of Brooklyn sewing studio Workroom Social; fixture of the online garment-sewing community. Instead of marketing to strangers, the camp fills its bunks from an existing community, which changes the whole social dynamic. Nobody arrives cold; everyone already shares a reference point.

Jennifer Wiese of Brooklyn's Workroom Social runs a full sleepaway camp for adult sewists at a Catskills YMCA camp, pairing intensive apparel classes taught by internet-famous sewing instructors with hiking, ziplining, and cabin life. A Manhattan charter bus, dorm bunks, and mess-hall meals complete the summer-camp fiction. Sessions routinely sell out with waitlists, including October 2026.

The experience

Practical picture: the format is 4-day / 3-night sleepaway with intensive sewing classes, spring and fall editions. A short sleepaway is the most forgiving on-ramp into camp life, and this one follows that playbook: a couple of nights in, all logistics handled. This is an adults-only environment: no kids programming, no family sessions mixed in.

Cost

Published pricing: $1,825-1,975 USD (lodging upgrades extra). That sits above the typical $400 to $1,000 weekend band, usually justified by longer sessions, specialist instruction, or headline talent. Confirm what the price actually covers. Camps in this dataset differ on whether lodging, meals, and transport are bundled, and that swings the true cost more than the ticket price does.

Where and when

The venue is in Frost Valley YMCA, Catskills, New York. Season and dates, as best we can verify: Running since 2015; Oct 16-19, 2026 edition sold out with waitlist.