What you may not know…

by | Feb 15, 2016 | General | 4 comments

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...

Love: A Year End Report

by | Dec 30, 2015 | General | 1 comment

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...

Your Precious Gifts

by | Nov 18, 2015 | General | 0 comments

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...

We are all volunteers

by | Nov 6, 2015 | General | 1 comment

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...

Please Join Me!

by | Oct 23, 2015 | General, In the News | 0 comments

I’ll be making a presentation at the Monona Public Library this coming Tuesday, October 27 at 6:30PM. Please join me and a sweet group of folks for more info on mending communities, a fun project and snacks from Whole Foods. You can learn more and preregister...

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