Blog - The Sewing Machine Project

It takes a village

by Margaret | Jun 11, 2019 | Community Programs-Local, Donors and Donations, General

We do not live in a vacuum. We are here to interact with one another. We are here to lift one another up and walk alongside one another. This is so true for The Sewing Machine Project. We exist because an idea was lifted up and people felt its power. Individuals and...

Our Spring 2019 Newsletter

by Margaret | May 17, 2019 | Our Newsletters

Join the Community! Here is the link to our Spring 2019 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!...

Our Amazing Board

by Margaret | May 7, 2019 | General, Our Board and Volunteers

The Sewing Machine Project board of directors is integral in the everyday operation of the organization as well as the big picture view.

20–The Chief and the Queen

by Margaret | Mar 19, 2019 | Community Programs-National, General

"You'll want to get in touch with Queen Rukiya and Chief Howard", Cherice advised. We'd been working together for several years and, ever the teacher, Cherice felt it would be helpful, expansive, for me to meet other members of the community, to work with them and...

20–Pretty pretty

by Margaret | Mar 17, 2019 | Community Programs-National, General

When I met Cherice Harrison Nelson for the first time I didn't realize I was meeting a legend. Tall and regal, known as Queen Reesie to many, Cherice carries herself like a queen. Hovering in a cloud of chicory and milk foam, we met at CC's Coffee on Magazine Street...

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by Margaret | Mar 16, 2019 | Community Programs-National, Founder's Musings, General

"Mom, do you know where you're going?" my 14 year old daughter asked incredulously. It was March, 2006 and Maddie peered at the map as we threaded through the Arkansas hills. The clunk, rattle, clunk of the rented Enterprise van had become familiar. I no longer...

Women’s Day

by Margaret | Mar 8, 2019 | Community Programs-Local, Community Programs-National, Founder's Musings, General, Immigrant Groups

Though The Sewing Machine Project has no gender specific policy, most of the machines we distribute go to women. Since the beginning, groups begun by and working with women find a connection with the work we do. We hear the stories. Stories of great need, of women...

Benefit!!

by Margaret | Feb 26, 2019 | Community Programs-National, Donors and Donations, General

JOIN THE SEWING MACHINE PROJECT AND THE CHURCH OF YOGA FOR A DONATION BASED CLASS BENEFITTING THE NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAS INDIAN COUNCIL When I walked through the double shotgun house that is becoming the Center for the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Council I couldn't...

Somebody gotta sew!

by Margaret | Feb 24, 2019 | Community Programs-National, In the News

"Somebody gotta sew sew sew" This time of year my thoughts drift to New Orleans, imagining the Mardi Gras Indians in their final days of preparation for Mardi Gras Day when the world will first see their new suits. Colors and stories unveiled, magic is...

Happy New Year-a 2018 retrospective

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

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;...