Florida is in Stitches!
What a great idea! Create a set of traveling sewing machines and take them to the different branches of your library system, sharing love of sewing and access to the tools to get the job done! Not only that but teaching in a library, well, you have access to all kinds...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Common Threads
Common Threads, about the evolution and development of The Sewing Machine Project, is available now!
CBS Evening News
Click here to see us on The CBS Evening News.People Making a Difference Podcast
The Sew & So Podcast
We were so thankful for the opportunity afforded us by the Sew & So podcast to tell our story.
Click here to listen.
WPT – The Sewing Machine Project on Wisconsin Life
The Healing Power of Sewing
Listen to Margaret's Wisconsin Life interview.
Television Interviews
Visit our video archive to view our television appearances.