Sewing Archives • Joy W Bennett

It’s a sort-of wordless Wednesday today. As Bob Cratchit said in Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol,” we’ve been making rather merry. I thought I’d share some photo highlights. We partnered with our local school district to put on a benefit concert for the Find a Voice Fund, established in our daughter Elli’s memory. A barbershop…

I am a great starter. I love the excitement, the energy, the optimism of starting something new. I dive in with gusto, make super-human progress for the first few days, and then somewhere in the guts of the project, get bogged down, and lay it aside. That’s when I lose steam. What was supposed to…

This summer I had the blessing of being part of the Kristen’s Do It For Others July project – making dresses for children in orphanages in central Africa. People across the country donated pillow cases, seam binding, elastic, thread, and money for postage. Others donated their time and sewing skills to make the dresses. I…