Blog - The Sewing Machine Project

Our Fall 2014 Newsletter

by Margaret | Nov 17, 2014 | Our Newsletters

Join the Community! Here is a link to our Fall 2014 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!

Gee’s Bend 2014

by Margaret | Nov 4, 2014 | General, Recent Machine Deliveries

The drive from New Orleans to Boykin, Alabama is a long one...the landmark cities click by...Biloxi, Mobile, Creola, Thomasville, and then I arrive in Boykin, home of the Gee's Bend Quilting Collective. Maryann Pettway comes out on the front porch to greet me--"well,...

Mending Project

by Margaret | Nov 1, 2014 | General

by Bird Ross... The mending… ….we hope it’s never ending! The Sewing Machine Project and the Eastside Friends of the Dharma (a service oriented organization on Madison’s east side) have gathered forces to bring Mending Night to Goodman Community Center. It is a...

Mardi Gras Indians 2014

by Margaret | Oct 29, 2014 | General, Recent Machine Deliveries

Delivered 12 machines to the Mardi Gras Indians, continuing our collaboration with the Guardian's Institute, led by Herreast Harrison and her daughter, Big Queen Cherice Harrison-Nelson. In this collaboration the Sewing Machine Project has distributed over 150...

Recent Bayview classes

by Margaret | Sep 30, 2014 | Community Programs-Local, General, Machine Recipient Stories

Another beginner class recently wrapped up at Madison's Bayview Center. A wonderful blend of Hispanic, Hmong and African women participated, learning basic sewing skills and mending. Rebecca Sites, our talented instructor was at the helm. We are excited about the...

May 30 Volunteer Day-preparing machines for delivery

by Margaret | Jun 1, 2014 | General

Wow! We got lots done at Friday's volunteer day! We had some new faces and some "regulars" but each and every person who showed up is amazing in their kindness, their hard work and their sense of community. At every single volunteer day I look around and marvel at...

It all comes together

by Margaret | Jan 9, 2014 | General

The email came in at 7pm last night....we had sent a preliminary update to a local center where we offer classes with a new class idea a few months back, tentatively suggesting today as a starting date. But we hadn't heard anything....so we figured it wasn't...

Our Fall 2013 Newsletter

by Margaret | Nov 17, 2013 | Our Newsletters

Join the Community! Here is a link to our Fall 2013 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!

Fixin’ machines!

by Margaret | Oct 28, 2013 | General

Volunteers came together this past Saturday to work on the machines that have been donated. Wow, did we have machines!! Our amazing volunteers helped organize, check, and inventory machines all day long. At the same time, in the same church, our local American Sewing...

Life’s A Stitch-our newest collection site!

by Margaret | Sep 16, 2013 | General, In the News

Life's a Stitch is a Bernina dealership located in DePere, Wisconsin. I was honored when just this morning they drove in from DePere to deliver 35 beautiful machines that had been donated through Bernina's Give and Get Back promotion that ran through the summer. All...