Team Building Events
An event at The Sewing Room is the solution to your company’s team building, office parties, or staff appreciation needs. Our team experience encourages participants to break out of their usual routines, tap into creativity, and collaborate through sewing and/or fashion-related activities.
Companies throughout the San Francisco Bay Area choose The Sewing Room for corporate team building that goes beyond typical activities. Our creative workshops encourage collaboration, problem-solving, and out-of-the-box thinking — skills that translate directly back to the workplace. Perfect for tech teams, healthcare organizations, nonprofits, and businesses seeking memorable staff appreciation events.
Creativity is the key to a fun, confidence-building experience that will build teamwork and get everyone thinking outside the box.
4-12 people (machine sewing events are limited to 8 participants)
4-6 hours of creative activities with one or two instructors
$1,400 - $6,000 per group
Choose your preferred theme from the options below
Customized for your group with instruction specific to your chosen project
Machine Safety and Beginning tutorial (if needed)
Catered lunch with coffee and tea service available at an additional charge
Available Mondays & Thursdays (9-3pm) from September to May
Each team building workshop can be tailored to your company culture and objectives. Whether you're looking to strengthen interdepartmental relationships, celebrate project milestones, or provide stress-reducing creative experiences, our Alameda location offers the perfect setting for groups from Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, and throughout the East Bay.
Event Themes
Each activity can be customized for your event.
Create a Mood or Vision Board
Step away from daily routines and explore goals, values, and ideas through a guided creative process. Whether attendees are crafting a personal board or collaborating on a team board, the experience helps clarify intentions and spark fresh inspiration.
Using images, color, and texture, participants visually express what motivates them and imagine future possibilities in a relaxed, hands-on environment.
This activity promotes Creativity, Clarity of Vision, Communication, and Team Bonding
Slow Stitching
Experience the soothing & creative process of hand quilting, inspired by both Kawandi quilting originating in Western India and the Boro stitching of Japan. Together, we begin small mats which are finished at home once the method is learned.
This activity promotes Mindfulness, Creativity, Patience, and Personal Expression
Make an Apron for Your Neighbor
Participants make aprons for one another in this gift-focused workshop. Each participant is assigned a partner at the event who will receive the apron they create. The pairs work together to choose fabric and design the details of the aprons that become gifts for each other at the end of the day.
This activity promotes Generosity, Friendship, and Discovery
Sew a Custom Quilt
Build a quilt together using a quilt block technique! Each participant creates a block for a quilt that will later be combined and assembled into a finished quilt. Choose from several quilt designs ranging from Modern to Traditional, with fabrics customized to your needs. Note - this activity incurs an additional $200 fee for quilt finishing.
This activity promotes Fine Motor Skills, Problem Solving, and Compassion