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Designer Showcase 2025


You’re invited to participate in our Designer Showcase at our
Annual Meeting on October 11, 2025.


Participating is fun! No previous experience necessary. We want to see it all – “everyday” fashion, athleisure wear, Cosplay, special occasion, children’s wear, adaptive garments, vintage, cultural, quilts, bags, hats – the only limit is your imagination and your sewing machine.

RULES FOR ENTRIES
• Limit of two (2) items. Use one submission form for each item submitted.
• Complete a written commentary of no more than half a page or 200 words.
• Submittal deadline has been extended to September 24, 2025


Details and Entry Forms

Fit With A Pro


Sunday, September 28, 2025
11:00 AM until 3:30 PM
Steve Cook’s Fireside Lanes
7901 Auburn Blvd
Citrus Heights, CA 95610



Ivy Vining, a professional Fashion Design Instructor with specialties in pattern making and garment fitting, will be attending to give personalized fitting sessions to interested members. Registered members will have the opportunity to have their personal garment fitted on them by Ivy. Individualized fitting sessions will also be performed as group demonstrations, allowing other members to observe for further learning potential.

Benefit: Registered members will have the opportunity to receive personalized fitting instruction relative to their own project and body type. Members will also benefit from the communal aspect of observing fit on a variety of body types. Members will gain knowledge on proper garment fitting standards and how to apply them to their own work moving forward.

Bring sewing machines and basic sewing supplies if you want to work on your garment.

Register Here

Annual Fall Meeting

Featured Speaker - Sandra Bruce

Saturday, October 11, 2025
9:30 AM until 2:00 PM


Timber Creek Ballroom
7050 Del Webb Blvd
Roseville, CA  95747

Sandra Bruce, is an art quilter from Grass Valley. She will display her creations and speak about her interesting piecing method called Material Matrix which has applications for quilts, wall hangings and garments.

Registration is open now and closes on October 3, 2025

Register Now

Sewing Challenge
Art Forgery


Saturday, October 25, 2025
9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m
Girl Scouts HCC Sacramento

Your sewing challenge should you decide to accept is to don a beret and become an art forger for one day.  Mission impossible?  Of course not!


First you will need a disguise.
Second you need to practice.
Third complete the mission.

The Challenge

Participants will be introduced to sewing with water soluble stabilizer, cotton scrap pieces, and free form presser foot to create a work of art.

The Reward

The student will learn how use WSS, use a free form presser foot and how to set their machine for it, color coordination, and another use of scrap fabric.
Did I mention prizes?

Click Here For More Details and Register By October 20th


Annual Fabric Sale

Saturday,  April 25, 2026


Orangevale Community Center
6826 Hazel Avenue

Emails to members on donations, volunteering, and consignments will be sent as updates occur.

Sewing at Lake Tahoe

Retreat is Full

- Now only taking waitlist names -

Do not send registration money
- simply email retreat@asgsacramento.org to be placed on the Wait List

 

Starts May 17, 2026 5 pm

Ends May 22, 2026 11 am


Come enjoy a week of sewing at the Zephyr Point Conference Center in Lake Tahoe. Experience the pleasures of collaborating with other sewists while viewing Lake Tahoe at its finest. Sewing stations, meals, and sleeping accommodations are provided. Bring your sewing projects, your sewing machine, and your inspirations for a fun week of no cooking, no cleaning, no time limits, and no obligations. Simply enjoy good old-fashioned sewing FUN.

Registration dates, rates, down payments and balance due deadlines:
Priority registration for Sacramento ASG members is September 10, 2025 – October 31, 2025. On November 1, 2025, registration will be open to everyone. A wait list will be established when the event is full. Due to contract obligations with Zephyr Point Conference Center, registration rates increase on February 1, 2026. A $345 down payment secures your registration. Final payments are due by February 1, 2026.

Cancellation and wait list procedures:
Should a cancelation occur, wait list procedures will be as followed: First Listed – First Offered. Sewists who are not on the wait list will not receive an offer until after the wait list has been exhausted. To be placed on the wait list, simply send an email to retreat@asgsacramento.org.

Also, due to contract obligations: NO REFUNDS AFTER February 1, 2026 unless a wait listed sewist replaces the space.