Suwannee River Library
October 21, 2016
This just in from Florida! Thank you so much to Singer Sewing for their partnership and for supplying beautiful new machines for this program! #Singer
Celebrating 20 years in 2025!
Celebrating 20 years in 2025!
This just in from Florida! Thank you so much to Singer Sewing for their partnership and for supplying beautiful new machines for this program! #Singer
High School Sewing The RAPPP/PRIDE program in New Bedford offers high school males the opportunity to learn to sew. We were happy to share sewing machines with these boys and even happier to learn that they’re really enjoying sewing! They’ve done some cool projects–quilting, making tote bags for homeless folks
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
Check out this link to one of Margaret’s recent interviews on Sewing With Nancy!
A donor’s recent sewing machine delivery in New Jersey is the sweet kindness that kindles the SMP flame.
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.
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 St. Cyr.
Our hearts sing when we learn about what our machine recipients are doing!
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 kitchen, the familiar ding of an email
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 so many people that ask me to
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 to
I ask a lot of our volunteers. I’m not gonna lie. Since the very beginning, generous souls have come forward offering themselves, their time, to The Sewing Machine Project. I throw “opportunities” out there on a regular basis and people always respond–and so quickly. I feel myself in a perpetual