Sewing With Nancy
Check out this link to one of Margaret’s recent interviews on Sewing With Nancy!
Small acts of kindness
A donor’s recent sewing machine delivery in New Jersey is the sweet kindness that kindles the SMP flame.
Our Spring 2016 Newsletter
Join the Community! Here is the link to our Spring 2016 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!
¡SewCuba!
We’re pleased to announce our latest initiative–a partnership with AllBrands of Baton Rouge, Louisiana offering sewing machines and supplies to support the sewing culture of Cuba.
The windows are in!
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, Cherie St. Cyr. The goal of the group, […]
The Sewing Girls
Our hearts sing when we learn about what our machine recipients are doing!
What you may not know…
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 kitchen, the familiar ding of an email arrival on my phone and […]
Love: A Year End Report
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 there are notes. Notes from so many people that ask me to pause, and make me smile. […]
Your Precious Gifts
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 program, helps us to help others. The donor’s mother’s […]
Our Fall 2015 Newsletter
Join the Community! Here is a link to our Fall 2015 Newsletter. If you’d like to receive our biannual newsletters directly in your inbox, please sign up through our website. We’ll happily keep you in the loop!
We are all volunteers
I ask a lot of our volunteers. I’m not gonna lie. Since the very beginning, generous souls have come forward offering themselves, their time, to The Sewing Machine Project. I throw “opportunities” out there on a regular basis and people always respond–and so quickly. I feel myself in a perpetual state of wonderment and gratitude! […]
Please Join Me!
I’ll be making a presentation at the Monona Public Library this coming Tuesday, October 27 at 6:30PM. Please join me and a sweet group of folks for more info on mending communities, a fun project and snacks from Whole Foods. You can learn more and preregister using this link: http://engagedpatrons.org/EventsExtended.cfm?SiteID=6247&EventID=258202&PK= Hope to see you there!