Making Good: The Sewing Machine Project

With another hurricane hammering Louisiana and its neighbors, it's a good time for a reminder about Margaret Jankowski's nonprofit Sewing Machine Project. The organization began after the tsunami in Southeast Asia and then turned to helping those rebuilding after Katrina by collecting, servicing and delivering sewing machines to those in need. You can help by donating a machine, fabric, patterns and notions, or money. 

Imagine losing everything you have, or almost everything -- and then imagine how helpful it would be to have a good working sewing machine as you rebuild. Sewing could be enormously useful in strictly practical terms -- curtains, quilts, clothing, even soft furnishings -- and then of course there's the possibility of real creative satisfaction and community. The Sewing Machine Project also helps organize volunteers to teach people to sew and to use the machines. 

The Sewing Machine Project is also helping get sewing machines to Midwesterners rebuild from this year's terrible floods. 

Comments

[Margaret Jankowski]

Hello Lainie,
Thank you for this kind blog post regarding The Sewing Machine Project. This project continues to grow and flourish in ways I'd never dreamed possible.
I am thrilled to read your blog site and I see many connections between your work and mine.
Thank you, once again.

Margaret Jankowski