Spring 2021 Newsletter
Here is the link to our Spring 2021 Newsletter. If you’d like to receive our newsletters by email, please sign up through our website! We’d love to keep you in the loop! https://mailchi.mp/f754049c8ed0/check-out-our-spring-2021-newsletter-4728473
Sew and So podcast!
It was an honor to be featured on the Sew And So podcast. This was a great conversation…please take a listen! https://www.sewandsopodcast.com/episodes/episode-6-margaret-jankowski
Spring
“Are you still collecting sewing machines?” The question, the sole content of an email, lingered on the page. “Of course! We are always collecting machines!” I replied, going on to detail how to do so. It’s been a quiet year for everyone–rethinking, recalculating, reimagining our lives, wondering how things might look on the “other side”. […]
Thrivent Choice Dollars
Are you a Thrivent Member? The Sewing Machine Project is proud to be included among the organizations approved to accept Thrivent Choice Dollars! If you wish to make a donation using your Thrivent Choice options, here are the instructions: Instructions: -Go to www.thrivent.com -Log into My Thrivent -Under your name, click on Membership Overview […]
Our Fall 2020 Newsletter
Here is the link to our Fall 2020 Newsletter. Please read and enjoy. If you’d like to receive our Biannual newsletters automatically, just sign up through the “Contact” portion of our website and you’ll be kept in the loop! https://mailchi.mp/13843d2e2943/a-year-like-no-other
Mending the World
My husband Peter looked lovingly across the table. “Honey,” he said, “you can’t save the world.” “But I want to!” I said. I’d been reading the paper and could feel the mounting tension that each day’s news always brings. There is so much work to be done. I want to do more and I often […]
Gail
I got word yesterday that Gail had passed. Gail. I saw her face before my eyes. Full of light. Always so full of light. Gail became a volunteer with the Sewing Machine Project several years ago. She loved tinkering with old sewing machines. Not much use for the high tech, fancy ones, she preferred working […]
#BlackLivesMatter
As an organization we typically are not a part of political discussions but the call for deep change within the very bones of our society is one to which we all must respond.
Our Spring 2020 Newsletter
Join the Community! Here is the link to our Spring 2020 Newsletter. Please read and enjoy. If you’d like to receive these biannual newsletters automatically, please sign up through the “Contact” portion of our website and we’ll happily keep you in the loop! https://mailchi.mp/696dd7375231/welcome-to-our-15th-year
And just like that…
…everything changed. In the past few weeks society has come to a halt as the battle with Covid-19 wages. The Sewing Machine Project is affected, as are most businesses and nonprofits, communities and individuals across the country, across the globe, by the necessary restrictions now in place. We watch. We wait. We adapt. I look […]
TBT
I’m sorting and organizing the photos on my computer. It’s time consuming, best tackled in little pieces, but boy oh boy, is it fascinating! It helps me to remember the rich journey that is the Sewing Machine Project. I look at my face in some of the pictures and think “Wow, back then I never […]
Many Hands
The task has grown little by little. It began (for me) when Nancy called and asked if I’d like to meet Jane. Jane was in the United States working with the team at IndiMark to gather resources for her Masai community in Kenya. She mentioned that her group was filling a container with supplies and […]