Come be SEW happy.
Sew Kailua is the place to learn to sew, play and find the creative in YOU. We are committed to repurpose-inspired projects with such a passion that it will make you think twice about what you are tossing out. We offer classes, camps and inspiration mixed with examples of how easy creating with repurposed materials can be.
Sew Kailua classes are designed around what makes us brings us joy. It is our mission to help you cultivate your own sense of style and give you the confidence to weave your creative impulses into the fabric of who you are.
Join the new sewing revolution – let us help you make something that is totally YOU!
We offer classes for everyone from 6 and up – if you have a desire to see what your hands can make this place is for you!
Our Kids classes are designed to teach simple handwork skills, ignite creativity and invite out the confidence of “I am Creative” in every child. Our current kids are for ages 6.5 – 11 and start in June: Creative Kids Summer Camps.
Our Tween/ Teen classes move kids onto the sewing machines and into the world where they can begin to define themselves by what their hands and their creative ideas can make. In our current Tween/Teen program we are offering after school sewing and Beginning Sewing camps starting in June.
Our Adult classes are designed for the adult learner. This is not your high school Home Ec Classes; we laugh, we seam rip and everyone learns to sew.
Currently we do not offer non-class hours. if you have questions about anything we offer please send us an email or text
Sew Kailua & owner Kamuela’s roots.
Sew Kailua is my girlhood dream come true.
I grew up in Kailua, went to Kailua High School, saved every $1 of babysitting money I made to spend on fabric. While my friends went to Hungry Ear Records I went to the fabric store to read the pattern books and touch the material.
Sewing was more than a hobby, it was a happy escape into a world of creativity where color mattered and texture was as important as function. Sewing opened a world of beauty for me; a girl who could not draw or paint but HAD to make things. By 11th grade I was making most of my own clothes, I never went to a prom is a dress I did not make and I grew to see the mall was a place to shop for ideas NOT clothes or an identity. Sewing gave me a way to be myself, it help me be comfortable with my body and it allowed me to see myself as a creative-maker in every other thing I did.
After 20 years in Olympia Washington where I had a Teaching Sewing Studio called ReFabulous. I get to offer what the Kailua Girl in me wished for; a place where kids and adults could learn to make a stuffed animal, use the sewing machine without braking the needle, read a pattern or fix their closet so everything fits. Sew Kailua is what the girl in me wished she had 40 years ago: a place to learn, make and have fun while discovering what the marker in us all can do.
To read more on how sewing shaped and altered my life click here.
