Recent Machine Deliveries Archives - Page 2 of 2

Where they’re headed

by Margaret | May 2, 2015 | General, Recent Machine Deliveries | 0 comments

The Sewing Machine Project board met this past Tuesday. Typically we meet monthly but due to scheduling issues, it had been two. So there was lots to do, lots to catch up on. Most importantly, we needed to review 7 applications for sewing machines. This is truly the...

New Orleans Odyssey: Part II

by Margaret | Mar 30, 2015 | General, Recent Machine Deliveries | 1 comment

The Quilters of Gees Bend are quite a force. When I saw their exhibition in 2005 in Memphis during the national tour, I was blown away by the power and strength of these quilts–a raw art form, created not to be any sort of an art piece but rather, created to...

New Orleans Odyssey: Part 1

by Margaret | Mar 28, 2015 | General, Recent Machine Deliveries | 2 comments

I recently returned from a trip to New Orleans, delivering sewing machines. Each trip stands on its own as a jewel, and these jewels together create a mosaic whose borders reach far beyond what I can see. On this particular trip I was accompanied by Bird, a friend and...

Joy

by Margaret | Feb 24, 2015 | General, Recent Machine Deliveries | 2 comments

The turnaround was fast. We heard from the First Immanuel Lutheran church about their upcoming visit to Guatemala. Could they have some machines to take along? International donations, we’ve learned, are tricky. It forces us as an organization to face what is...

Gee’s Bend 2014

by Margaret | Nov 4, 2014 | General, Recent Machine Deliveries | 2 comments

The drive from New Orleans to Boykin, Alabama is a long one…the landmark cities click by…Biloxi, Mobile, Creola, Thomasville, and then I arrive in Boykin, home of the Gee’s Bend Quilting Collective. Maryann Pettway comes out on the front porch to...

Mardi Gras Indians 2014

by Margaret | Oct 29, 2014 | General, Recent Machine Deliveries | 0 comments

Delivered 12 machines to the Mardi Gras Indians, continuing our collaboration with the Guardian’s Institute, led by Herreast Harrison and her daughter, Big Queen Cherice Harrison-Nelson. In this collaboration the Sewing Machine Project has distributed over 150...