Margaret, Author at The Sewing Machine Project

Happy New Year-a 2018 retrospective

by Margaret | Jan 1, 2019 | Community Programs-National, Founder's Musings, General, Recent Machine Deliveries | 2 comments

When I look at the list of all that was done in 2018 I am awestruck. We: connected with 38 new groups, delivering over 300 sewing machines; received an amazing donation from Brother, International; shipped machines to Puerto Rico to help with hurricane recovery;...

Fall 2018 Newsletter

by Margaret | Nov 1, 2018 | Our Newsletters | 0 comments

Here is the link to our Fall 2018 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/b942862817a6/our-2018-fall-newsletter

Focus on Donors: Third Stage Bags

by Margaret | Oct 15, 2018 | Donors and Donations, General | 2 comments

Cecilia Plum is a name that sounds like music to me. When I received a message through the Sewing Machine Project website recently asking me to contact her I had to look back through my files to see where I’d heard the name before. Sure enough, there she was in our...

Focus on Donors: Erika Barratt Design

by Margaret | Sep 20, 2018 | Donors and Donations, General | 0 comments

The phone call from Erika Barratt came out of the blue. Driving along in rural Arkansas, on a sewing machine delivery trip, I picked up my phone to hear Erika’s lyrical voice. She introduced herself and told me a little bit about her business. Her description...

Thank you, MGE!

by Margaret | Sep 4, 2018 | Donors and Donations, General, Our Board and Volunteers | 1 comment

A decade ago I made a presentation about The Sewing Machine Project to local business people, I shared our wish list as well, noting that “we sure could use some storage space for sewing machines!” A gentleman named Jim stepped forward and offered to help....