Blog - The Sewing Machine Project

Knowing who we are.

by Margaret | Apr 7, 2015 | Founder's Musings, General

We are updating The Sewing Machine Project brochure. Our logo has changed, our colors have changed, and so much has been done--it's time to update our face out there! But as I write the copy for this brochure I find that I keep sitting back and looking to the sky. How...

Help when we need it

by Margaret | Apr 2, 2015 | General

This is Brian. He is a facilities manager over at Madison Gas and Electric, where we store some of our machines and from where we launch pallets of machines hither and yon. I've known Brian for a few years now--can't even remember when or how we met--but Brian's our...

New Orleans Odyssey: Part II

by Margaret | Mar 30, 2015 | General, Recent Machine Deliveries

The Quilters of Gees Bend are quite a force. When I saw their exhibition in 2005 in Memphis during the national tour, I was blown away by the power and strength of these quilts--a raw art form, created not to be any sort of an art piece but rather, created to survive....

New Orleans Odyssey: Part 1

by Margaret | Mar 28, 2015 | General, Recent Machine Deliveries

I recently returned from a trip to New Orleans, delivering sewing machines. Each trip stands on its own as a jewel, and these jewels together create a mosaic whose borders reach far beyond what I can see. On this particular trip I was accompanied by Bird, a friend and...

Generation Q Magazine

by Margaret | Feb 28, 2015 | General

The Sewing Machine Project is featured in the March/April 2015 issue of Generation Q Magazine. You can read it here or pick it up at your local sewing/quilt shop. What a wonderful article and what an inspiring magazine!

Joy

by Margaret | Feb 24, 2015 | General, Recent Machine Deliveries

The turnaround was fast. We heard from the First Immanuel Lutheran church about their upcoming visit to Guatemala. Could they have some machines to take along? International donations, we've learned, are tricky. It forces us as an organization to face what is within...

One more class

by Margaret | Feb 13, 2015 | General

It might have been because a couple of students had missed one class and needed to make one up but what really seemed to be happening was that the students couldn't get enough of sewing. "Just one more class?" they asked Rebecca. And of course she said yes. This group...

Hope and Gratitude

by Margaret | Jan 29, 2015 | Donors and Donations, General

It's a chilly day here in Wisconsin and there is a box that has been shifting around in the back of my car for about a week now. Boxes arrive at our neighborhood post office for The Sewing Machine Project on a regular basis-- a yellow card in my PO Box announcing...

New Northport News!

by Margaret | Jan 13, 2015 | General

Beginning Sewing Classes have, well, begun! at Northport Community Center. Our enthusiastic 8 students are learning new sewing and mending skills and having a great time! We are fortunate to have our wonderful instructor, Rebecca Sites, at the helm and such great...

Gratitude every day

by Margaret | Nov 24, 2014 | General

I could write a post called "Gratitude" every single day and it wouldn't be enough. Every single day there are gifts of grace. It might be a note that arrives with a machine, sharing a story or lending support. It may be a donation from someone I've never met--someone...