Posted in General on Aug 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Quilt Expo, sponsored by Wisconsin Public Television and Nancy Zieman Productions, is a huge event in the Madison area. This year it will run Thursday-Saturday, September 11-13th at the Alliant Energy Center. It’s grown by leaps and bounds over the past 3 years. What a wonderful place for The Sewing Machine Project to have a [...]
Posted in General on Jul 8th, 2008 1 Comment »
Hans’ Sewing and Vacuum closed it doors at the end of June after 54 years of service to South Central Wisconsin. A very sad day for many people, as Hans’ has been a site for reliable service, excellent customer service, and a community gathering place for so very long.
This impacted the Sewing Machine Project as [...]
Posted in General on Jul 8th, 2008 1 Comment »
I met with Tim Olson, who owns Jerry’s Sewing and Vacuum in Madison, today. What a kind man! He has agreed to become the primary donation site in Madison for The Sewing Machine Project. If you have a working sewing machine or serger to donate, please send it or drop it off at Jerry’s. [...]
Posted in General on Jul 7th, 2008 No Comments »
The flooding of the past few months has hit the Midwest awfully hard. Everyone is feeling it. The Sewing Machine Project will do a collection specifically targeted to people who lost their machines in the flooding. We will be setting up a collection in the near future. Please check the website
Posted in General, In the News on Jun 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Our big fundraiser, the Spring Into Summer event, is right around the corner! Last year, we used the proceeds from this event to pay all of the fees involved with becoming an official 501(c)3 and still had money left over to cover a portion of the machine delivery to New Orleans. We’ve come so far [...]
Posted in General on May 13th, 2008 1 Comment »
Due to technical difficulties on the local Madison station, 1055 triple m, the show didn’t air properly on Sunday 5/18. Triple M and etown have kindly collaborated to re-air the project featuring the Sewing Machine Project, the Bodeans, Over the Rhine, and Doug Fine, in the Madison area THIS SUNDAY, 5/24 AT 9PM. So Madison-area [...]
Posted in General, In the News on Apr 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Please read the beautiful article Sheila Strupe wrote for the April 20 edition of the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Sewing Sows Seed of Hope
Posted in General, Personal Stories on Apr 30th, 2008 No Comments »
The machines that go to New Orleans take on new lives with their new owners. Now, we’re giving the owners a chance to share their stories. If you are the recipient of a machine, please visit our new Testimonials page and leave a comment.
Plus, if you would like to find out how the Sewing Machine [...]
Posted in General on Apr 30th, 2008 No Comments »
I am continually amazed by how things fall into place in this project. Not that there isn’t a lot of hard work in the background but sometimes things happen that continue to reinforce the fact that this is meant to be. Here’s another example…
I had contacted Anna Morgan in early April because her name came [...]
Posted in General on Apr 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
I recently received an e-mail from a faculty member at Brookfield Academy informing me of their most recent service effort. They had read about the Sewing Machine Project in the UW Alumni Newsletter in the Fall of ‘07 and decided to take up a collection of machines, fabric and notions at the school to support [...]