About us, founders of Kids Sewing Camps and course instructors

With over four years of experience sewing with children, we, Iris Bienz Lüdi and Simona Breitenmoser , guide young talents through a creative week of holiday activities. From our own experience as parents of now-grown children, we know how important a meaningful holiday week is. For working parents, our multi-day holiday camp also offers an ideal childcare solution during school holidays.

We are happy to share our sewing skills (though we are not trained seamstresses) and experience with the children during our camps. We love working with children and take great pleasure in guiding them through their sewing projects. It is very important to us that they experience the joy of sewing without pressure, so that we all have an unforgettable week of sewing.

Iris Bienz Lüdi

Raised in Zurich, shaped by a creative household, surrounded by fabrics, ribbons, buttons and sewing machines.

Commercial training followed by decades of work experience and an interest in socially oriented workplaces. Initial experience gained as a supervisor in ski camps, class trips, and school excursions.

During parental leave, I gained further experience working with children (private lunch programs, accompanying school trips, co-initiator and organizer of the Kollerwiese Water Games holiday program (5 years), participation in the parents' forum at my children's school). And I have four years of experience sewing with children.

Simona Breitenmoser-Zanini

My name is Simona Breitenmoser, I was born and raised in Ticino in the late 1960s and moved to Zurich in the 1990s for love. I am happily married and the mother of two grown sons.

I am an extroverted person; I love life and all the beautiful things it offers. Since childhood, I have had a great interest in fashion in all its facets. I have been knitting and sewing since my youth.

Sewing with beautiful fabrics is a great passion of mine, which I live out in my own label: www.simline.ch .