Celebrating 20 years in 2025!
Our spring/summer newsletter for 2017 is available now. Enjoy!
Recently I received an email from Home Savings–a locally owned bank here in Madison. Were we interested in participating in Humanity 365, a contest highlighting local charities, with a chance to win $1000? Well, why not?, I thought. The ap was submitted, the rules explained. This would be a contest
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
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 using this link: http://engagedpatrons.org/EventsExtended.cfm?SiteID=6247&EventID=258202&PK=
Mutual of Omaha has a cool campaign going! They’re sending an Airstream trailer around the country and talking to people about the Aha Moments in their lives. They contacted me to see if I’d like to do an interview and I was thrilled to say yes.
The relationship between the Sewing Machine Project and The American Sewing Guild goes back a few years. Kind of makes sense, doesn’t it, for a nonprofit focused on sewing and sewing machines to collaborate with a national group promoting the love of all things sewing? ASG produces a beautiful quarterly
I was invited to speak in Eagle River last week at Many Ways of Peace. How lovely to be received by those working for peace! Among the audience members was Emily Bright of WXPR Radio and she did a lovely interview. Here is that link. I hadn’t been to that part of
The May 2015 issue of Brava magazine is chock-a-block full of great articles. The feature piece is on “Living Local, Thinking Global” and offers brief stories about Madison women who are working on projects that reach beyond our borders. I was so thrilled to be among those interviewed and completely
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 summer. All of the machines were checked
We are so excited to learn that the 15 sewing machines and 2 sergers that we sent to India have reached their final destination! For a few months they were hung up in customs. It was amazing how many people came to our aid. Everyone was working together but from
We are so honored to be featured in the “helping hands” segment of the February 2013 issue of The Quilt Life. Check it out!