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20–Pretty pretty

by Margaret | Mar 17, 2019 | Community Programs-National, General | 0 comments

When I met Cherice Harrison Nelson for the first time I didn’t realize I was meeting a legend. Tall and regal, known as Queen Reesie to many, Cherice carries herself like a queen. Hovering in a cloud of chicory and milk foam, we met at CC’s Coffee on...

20

by Margaret | Mar 16, 2019 | Community Programs-National, Founder's Musings, General | 1 comment

“Mom, do you know where you’re going?” my 14 year old daughter asked incredulously. It was March, 2006 and Maddie peered at the map as we threaded through the Arkansas hills. The clunk, rattle, clunk of the rented Enterprise van had become familiar....

Women’s Day

by Margaret | Mar 8, 2019 | Community Programs-Local, Community Programs-National, Founder's Musings, General, Immigrant Groups | 0 comments

Though The Sewing Machine Project has no gender specific policy, most of the machines we distribute go to women. Since the beginning, groups begun by and working with women find a connection with the work we do. We hear the stories. Stories of great need, of women...

Benefit!!

by Margaret | Feb 26, 2019 | Community Programs-National, Donors and Donations, General | 1 comment

JOIN THE SEWING MACHINE PROJECT AND THE CHURCH OF YOGA FOR A DONATION BASED CLASS BENEFITTING THE NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAS INDIAN COUNCIL When I walked through the double shotgun house that is becoming the Center for the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Council I...

Happy New Year-a 2018 retrospective

by Margaret | Jan 1, 2019 | Community Programs-National, Founder's Musings, General, Recent Machine Deliveries | 2 comments

When I look at the list of all that was done in 2018 I am awestruck. We: connected with 38 new groups, delivering over 300 sewing machines; received an amazing donation from Brother, International; shipped machines to Puerto Rico to help with hurricane recovery;...

Focus on Donors: Third Stage Bags

by Margaret | Oct 15, 2018 | Donors and Donations, General | 2 comments

Cecilia Plum is a name that sounds like music to me. When I received a message through the Sewing Machine Project website recently asking me to contact her I had to look back through my files to see where I’d heard the name before. Sure enough, there she was in our...