May 30 Volunteer Day-preparing machines for delivery
Wow! We got lots done at Friday’s volunteer day! We had some new faces and some “regulars” but each and every person who showed up is amazing in their kindness, their hard work and their sense of community. At every single volunteer day I look around...It all comes together
The email came in at 7pm last night….we had sent a preliminary update to a local center where we offer classes with a new class idea a few months back, tentatively suggesting today as a starting date. But we hadn’t heard anything….so we figured it...Fixin’ machines!
Volunteers came together this past Saturday to work on the machines that have been donated. Wow, did we have machines!! Our amazing volunteers helped organize, check, and inventory machines all day long. At the same time, in the same church, our local American Sewing...Life’s A Stitch-our newest collection site!
Life’s a Stitch is a Bernina dealership located in DePere, Wisconsin. I was honored when just this morning they drove in from DePere to deliver 35 beautiful machines that had been donated through Bernina’s Give and Get Back promotion that ran through the...Local Classes-Teaching and Learning
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...Common Threads
Common Threads, about the evolution and development of The Sewing Machine Project, is available now!
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WPT – The Sewing Machine Project on Wisconsin Life
The Healing Power of Sewing
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