Celebrating 20 years in 2025!
I am still looking to establish a connection for distributing machines to those who lost theirs earlier this year in the terrible flooding in the Midwest. This arm of the project is on hold temporarily until a partnership has been made. Check back for updates.
Quilt Expo, sponsored by Wisconsin Public Television and Nancy Zieman Productions, is a huge event in the Madison area. This year it will run Thursday-Saturday, September 11-13th at the Alliant Energy Center. It’s grown by leaps and bounds over the past 3 years. What a wonderful place for The Sewing
Hans’ Sewing and Vacuum closed it doors at the end of June after 54 years of service to South Central Wisconsin. A very sad day for many people, as Hans’ has been a site for reliable service, excellent customer service, and a community gathering place for so very long. This
I met with Tim Olson, who owns Jerry’s Sewing and Vacuum in Madison, today. What a kind man! He has agreed to become the primary donation site in Madison for The Sewing Machine Project. If you have a working sewing machine or serger to donate, please send it or drop
The flooding of the past few months has hit the Midwest awfully hard. Everyone is feeling it. The Sewing Machine Project will do a collection specifically targeted to people who lost their machines in the flooding. We will be setting up a collection in the near future. Please check the
Our big fundraiser, the Spring Into Summer event, is right around the corner! Last year, we used the proceeds from this event to pay all of the fees involved with becoming an official 501(c)3 and still had money left over to cover a portion of the machine delivery to New
Due to technical difficulties on the local Madison station, 1055 triple m, the show didn’t air properly on Sunday 5/18. Triple M and etown have kindly collaborated to re-air the project featuring the Sewing Machine Project, the Bodeans, Over the Rhine, and Doug Fine, in the Madison area THIS SUNDAY,
Please read the beautiful article Sheila Strupe wrote for the April 20 edition of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Sewing Sows Seed of Hope
I am continually amazed by how things fall into place in this project. Not that there isn’t a lot of hard work in the background but sometimes things happen that continue to reinforce the fact that this is meant to be. Here’s another example… I had contacted Anna Morgan in
I recently received an e-mail from a faculty member at Brookfield Academy informing me of their most recent service effort. They had read about the Sewing Machine Project in the UW Alumni Newsletter in the Fall of ’07 and decided to take up a collection of machines, fabric and notions
This is so exciting! Nancy Zieman called and asked if I’d be on Sewing With Nancy. We taped a new segment called “Nancy’s Corner” which will air in the fall on PBS stations across the country. We talked all about The Sewing Machine Project and had such a great time.
I’ve just returned from my sixth trip to New Orleans, taking over 60 machines to that recovering city. Each time I visit I learn more, experience more, feel more deeply connected to the area and its people. We did so much on this trip! I began by connecting with Anna
