Sewing in Mama’s Garden

Quilting Classes

Due to COVID-19, our in-person Quilting Classes are currently on-hold. These will resume in Spring 2021.

Classes are taught by seasoned quilt makers and community partners, held once a week for first time enthusiasts, seasoned individuals, and anyone who just want to have fun and learn new skills and techniques. (Classes are open to the public.)

Sewing Through the Pain Classes

This program was created to help individuals use creative art to help them tell their stories and process past painful events through the art of sewing. We want to help women heal from traumatic past experiences by providing a creative outlet through the handcrafted arts to help them discover their one-of-a-kind talent and skill set. Classes will take place once a week. The classes will be open to the public. A donation of $55.00 will cover the cost of materials and instructors. Contact us at contact@safeharborim.com to sign up for classes.

A woman named Sandra tells her mother’s story for the first time of how she overcame her painful past by sewing:

38 years of abuse and it was finally over. But the emotional scars were noticeable. She had stopped sewing completely. Momma withdrew from life and all the things she used to love to do.

In 2012, I convinced mom to start sewing again. I told her that it would be very therapeutic for her. So she decided to pick up her needle and thread once again. I noticed the strangest thing happening to Momma when she started sewing again. Tears started flowing and all the pain of the past and abuse surfaced. Even though she had gone through counseling, the pain of the abuse was still there. Only until she began to sew again did we learn of how much she had suppressed and kept inside of her. The more she sewed the more the tears fell. It became so clear to me. Momma was “sewing through the pain”. All of the pain that she endured, the emotional abuse as well as the physical came to the surface. Momma came face to face with her pain of the past through sewing. The more she sewed quilts the more she dealt with the things from her past. She has learned how to sew through her pain.

Momma told me that sewing has turned her pain of the past into hope and love for the future. Every quilt she sews, mamma sews from a place of love now, not of the pain from the past. No more pain but love and hope. It shows up in every one of her one-of-a-kind unique quilts. What was Momma’s secret? How did she move from sewing in pain to sewing in love? She told me that she started praying for women who were going through abuse each time she quilts. Each stitch was a prayer sent to our Heavenly Father from Momma for the millions of women who have been abused or who are going through abuse. Her hope is that these women are free from abuse and that God will heal them from their past.

You see, every quilt that Momma sews is from the heart. And what is made from the heart reaches the heart. God healed my mom through the art of sewing.