Margaret, Author at The Sewing Machine Project

The windows are in!

by Margaret | Feb 27, 2016 | General | 1 comment

You may remember that last year we received a very generous donation which was earmarked to help the ladies who live on the Rancho la Joya outside of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. We’ve known this group for quite some time, first introduced by our friend,...

The Sewing Girls

by Margaret | Feb 22, 2016 | General, Recent Machine Deliveries, Recipient Stories | 4 comments

Our hearts sing when we learn about what our machine recipients are doing!

What you may not know…

by Margaret | Feb 15, 2016 | General | 4 comments

The email flurry has been seemingly nonstop for the past 24 hours. Notes about volunteer days, procedures, organization, how to manage our new student volunteers. Emails coming and going, sometimes directed at me, other times keeping me in the loop. I stand in my...

Love: A Year End Report

by Margaret | Dec 30, 2015 | General | 1 comment

It’s the end of the year–our 10th Anniversary Year–and along with everyone else, I’m wrapping up budgets and reports necessary at year’s end. But I keep getting distracted. Because throughout the piles and folders and reports and receipts...

Your Precious Gifts

by Margaret | Nov 18, 2015 | General | 0 comments

A note arrived recently: “Please accept this donation in honor of my mother. She loved to sew and she would love knowing that her love inspired me to make it possible for someone else to sew.” This gift, given so graciously through our Forget Me Not...