Celebrating 20 years in 2025!
Last week was the big week! The Sewing Machine Project moved across town! We’d been occupying the Sunday School wing of a local church for over 10 years and managed to accumulate all kinds of stuff! Sewing machines, of course, but so much more. We even had a “museum shelf”
We cannot know what is coming. At best, we can make an educated guess. I’ve tried to impose my will on The Sewing Machine Project so many times over the past 20 years—thinking I was reading the signs and interpreting them correctly, then moving forward in earnest. Sometimes it works.
In November 2023, we lost a beloved Board member and friend, Chris Thomas. The onset of her illness was so sudden and she left the world in a matter of months. What Chris left behind, however, will go on forever. Chris brought a quiet wisdom to our board. She cared
I, like many sewers, have a few machines in my “stable”. It was time to clean house. My mom’s Featherweight…nope, can’t get rid of that one. My day-to-day machine…always in use. That one stays put. Back in the corner of the closet is a familiar case—a faded plastic cover over
The Sewing Machine Project has a unique Business Model. By that I mean, we carve our own path with an ear to the pulse of what is going on around us. We are a tapestry of common threads, with a vibrant palate of fibers and colors- some expected and many
His name was Gene Alexander. And we knew each other…even though we’d never met. His note arrived in July of 2021, the handwriting shaky with age. He’d read about The Sewing Machine Project in the Christian Science Monitor and was impressed with our work. So impressed, in fact, that he
I honestly believe that I have been given The Sewing Machine Project to guide. And that’s exactly what I do, however, I could not do this work without the support and help of so very many people–unsung heroes. Let me sing their song now. Pattie in Minnesota, a retired engineer,
…an excerpt from a letter I recently wrote to a donor This letter so full of gratitude…I hope you can feel it spilling off of the page. I recently reached out to a few of our volunteers asking them to take over the preparation of three shipments of sewing machines
“Are you still collecting sewing machines?” The question, the sole content of an email, lingered on the page. “Of course! We are always collecting machines!” I replied, going on to detail how to do so. It’s been a quiet year for everyone–rethinking, recalculating, reimagining our lives, wondering how things might
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Here is the link to our Fall 2020 Newsletter. Please read and enjoy. If you’d like to receive our Biannual newsletters automatically, just sign up through the “Contact” portion of our website and you’ll be kept in the loop! https://mailchi.mp/13843d2e2943/a-year-like-no-other
My husband Peter looked lovingly across the table. “Honey,” he said, “you can’t save the world.” “But I want to!” I said. I’d been reading the paper and could feel the mounting tension that each day’s news always brings. There is so much work to be done. I want to
