Fixin’ machines!
Volunteers came together this past Saturday to work on the machines that have been donated. Wow, did we have machines!! Our amazing volunteers helped organize, check, and inventory machines all day long. At the same time, in the same church, our local American Sewing Guild (ASG) chapter held a fabric sale with all of the […]
Life’s A Stitch-our newest collection site!
Life’s a Stitch is a Bernina dealership located in DePere, Wisconsin. I was honored when just this morning they drove in from DePere to deliver 35 beautiful machines that had been donated through Bernina’s Give and Get Back promotion that ran through the summer. All of the machines were checked over and everything! So Awesome!! […]
Local Classes-Teaching and Learning
This summer we’ve offered two class series here in Madison. Our wonderful instructor, Rebecca Sites teaches both series–1 in Spanish at the Catholic Multicultural Center and 1 through a translator to Hmong women at the Bayview Center. Both classes wrapped up in the past week and I visited the last Hmong class last night. The […]
Flood gates open
The Sewing Machine Project is such an amazing thing. I’m struck so often by the beauty and intensity of it and also its mystery. It is a Sunday afternoon and I’m recording donations and saying thank you to donors and to this beautiful energy that makes this all work. I am in awe. Not too […]
Margaret’s blog
I’ve started a personal blog which includes some “spiritual musings” as a friend so aptly labeled them. I just needed a forum to talk about some of the more personal aspects of life along with the discoveries along the way. The Sewing Machine Project has affected my spirituality but I want to be clear that […]
Angels
There are so many people who step forward to help The Sewing Machine Project. I feel I live in this world of constant gratitude…it’s a pretty nice place to be. I am humbled and thrilled by how this idea is received and by all the ways people connect with it. There are our donors–people who […]
Sewing Volunteer Day
We’ve been offered the chance to do a fundraiser at Covance, a drug testing company here in Madison. Hmmmm, what to do for a fundraiser?? Sell handmade goods, of course! My dream would be to sell goods made by those who receive our machines….the fair trade sale…and someday, that’s going to happen. But this fundraiser […]
Passing along a sweet blog post about the SMP
http://www.quiltviews.com/helping-hands
India!
We are so excited to learn that the 15 sewing machines and 2 sergers that we sent to India have reached their final destination! For a few months they were hung up in customs. It was amazing how many people came to our aid. Everyone was working together but from different angles to help this […]
The Quilt Life-February 2013
We are so honored to be featured in the “helping hands” segment of the February 2013 issue of The Quilt Life. Check it out!
Apne Aap, India-The Journey
Our shipment of 15 sewing machines and 2 sergers reached New Delhi a little over a month ago. We were so excited to learn that they’d arrived. The machines are going to be used by the Apne Aap women’s organization in New Delhi. Apne Aap (“on my own”) was formed to educate young women with […]
Paying it Forward in Local Sewing Classes
Our first round of local classes came to an end yesterday. There were two 6-week classes, one on Mondays and one on Fridays. Local teacher, Rebecca Sites did a masterful job of leading the classes–I have to say, I knew she’d be perfect and I was right. Rebecca has mastered the art of going with […]