Get your UFOs packed and ready to go! Our Annual Sewing Retreat at the Blue Gate Garden Inn in Shipshewana will be held Tuesday, May 6 through Friday, May 9. It is open to all who love to sew.

  Registration for the Magnolia sewing room is $50 for members and $60 for non-members. Extra table is $10 for the four days. Join us for a day or two at $20 a day.  You will need to reserve you own hotel room. You must tell them you are with Fort Wayne ASG to get the reduced room rate. Call the Blue Gate: 260-768-4725.

 Click here for complete information and the registration form. Start planning your sewing projects and get ready for some good eats and shopping time, too!

All aboard! It's our Chapter's Michigan Shop Hop Motor Coach Bus Trip and everyone is invited to join us for this one-day excursion to four premier quilting/sewing shops. 

Saturday, July 12, 2025

$77 per person

Shop at: 

Quilts at the Marshall House, Marshall, MI

Quilt N Go, East LeRoy, MI

Quilts Plus and Field's Fabrics, both in Kalamazoo, MI

Click here for complete details and registration form.

This year's Mystery Quilt was a celebration of solids and prints! Pictured at right is Mystery Quilt Coordinator Lisa Merkle's full-size rendition. At our Annual Meeting in October, we'll see an inspiring parade of what others created from this unique design. Like it? Supply list, cutting instructions and complete step-by-step 'clues' in PDF and video formats can be found by clicking here or going to our Mystery Quilt page in the Events tab.

This month we're learning about attachments for those beloved Featherweight machines, how get a professional look to installing a zipper in a bag, and more!   Click here for a complete listing of our April Neighborhood Group activities and upcoming Chapter special events. 

And check out chapter's annual four-day retreat in Shipshewana coming up in May. Click here for details. 

Find pictures and information about many of our past neighborhood group meetings on our Facebook page by clicking here!