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This summer we’ve offered two class series here in Madison. Our wonderful instructor, Rebecca Sites teaches  both series–1 in Spanish at the Catholic Multicultural Center and 1 through a translator to Hmong women at the Bayview Center. Both classes wrapped up in the past week and I visited the last

The Sewing Machine Project is such an amazing thing. I’m struck so often by the beauty and intensity of it and also its mystery. It is a Sunday afternoon and I’m recording donations and saying thank you to donors and to this beautiful energy that makes this all work. I

I’ve started a personal blog which includes some “spiritual musings” as a friend so aptly labeled them. I just needed a forum to talk about some of the more personal aspects of life along with the discoveries along the way. The Sewing Machine Project has affected my spirituality but I

There are so many people who step forward to help The Sewing Machine Project. I feel I live in this world of constant gratitude…it’s a pretty nice place to be. I am humbled and thrilled by how this idea is received and by all the ways people connect with it.

We’ve been offered the chance to do a fundraiser at Covance, a drug testing company here in Madison. Hmmmm, what to do for a fundraiser?? Sell handmade goods, of course! My dream would be to sell goods made by those who receive our machines….the fair trade sale…and someday, that’s going

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Our shipment of 15 sewing machines and 2 sergers  reached New Delhi a little over a month ago. We were so excited to learn that they’d arrived. The machines are going to be used by the Apne Aap women’s organization in New Delhi. Apne Aap (“on my own”) was formed

Our first round of local classes came to an end yesterday. There were two 6-week classes, one on Mondays and one on Fridays. Local teacher, Rebecca Sites did a masterful job of leading the classes–I have to say, I knew she’d be perfect and I was right. Rebecca has mastered