2026 Save the Dates

 

SEWING RETREAT

August 12 to 15, 2026

FARMSTEAD INN; 370 S Van Buren St; Shipshewana IN 46565

TREAT YOURSELF and ENJOY THE CAMARADERIE with members who share this common bond, love of sewing.

• Limited to 25!

• OVERNIGHT RESERVATIONS: call Farmstead Inn at 260-768-4595 for ASG Lansing Clippers. Overnight rooms have a TV, coffee pot, refrigerator, microwave, iron & ironing board, hairdryer and free wireless internet. Room Check-in is 3pm on the day of arrival. Check-out by 11am on the day of departure. Stay for as many days as you like beginning Tuesday August 11, 2025.

• SEWING ROOM is open Wednesday Morning thru Noon Saturday and includes: ironing boards, irons, one large cutting mat & 2 cutting tables. A kitchenette is off of the sewing room and tables are set up for snacks. Tables are 8 feet long.

• WHAT TO BRING: Cutting mats, sewing machine (cord & foot pedal), notions, projects, supplies, large headed pins (requested by the Inn), pressing cloths and a snack to share. Finger food, coolers, and crock pots are OK.

• Reserve your hotel room now for 2026 by calling the Farmstead Inn at 260-768-4595

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Annual Challenge

Each year the Lansing Clippers presents a new challenge for members. 

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• The 2026 challenge is to Reduce, Reuse, or Upcycle.

• This year’s challenge project will continue the spirit of Reduce, Reuse & Upcycle - Take 3.  This year’s challenge will not only encourage shopping your own personal resource center for most of your project… but learning or improving a technique.  Your project should be started after January 1, 2026 and completed for show and tell at the December 2026 meeting.  At show and tell, you should be prepared to discuss which technique you concentrated on.  There is no set project or technique… but here are a few technique’s you may want to consider…

• Binding, apparel fitting, miniatures - think baby doll clothes or mini quilts/afghans, hand stitching, hand or machine embroidery, learning to crochet or knit, sewing a zipper, finishes, interfacing or lining, scalloped edges, mitered corners, alterations, slippery fabric… the list goes on - let your imagination (or Google) be your guide.

• The project must be fiber arts related.

• The project must be made during the 2026 calendar year (started after January 1, 2026 and completed by the December 2026 Guild meeting).

• The project must use 90% of material that you owned on January 1, 2026.  Reduce your stash, reuse items you have, upcycle old items in to something new. 

• Drawings for prizes will be awarded at the December monthly meeting.

• Everyone who completes the challenge will be eligible for the drawing

 

 

 

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