{"id":11090,"date":"2025-11-06T20:51:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/?p=11090"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:51:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:51:33","slug":"refugee-women-graduate-from-wtbs-latest-sewing-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/?p=11090","title":{"rendered":"Refugee Women &#8220;Graduate&#8221; from WTB&#8217;s Latest Sewing Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;d been standing by the Northside Learning Center on Thursday, November 6 you would have seen women from Afghanistan, Burma, Rwanda and Sudan, each carrying a bin full of fabric and sewing notions and then making a second trip to lug a sewing machine of their very own.  They&#8217;d just finished their eight-week sewing class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jennifer Roberts Crittenden has led a group of volunteer teachers for 15 years working with refugee and immigrant women, teaching them to use a sewing machine or helping those who have used one to polish their skills.  The women begin learning to work the machine and make a simple project and by the end of the eight weeks they are often making a making a pair of pants with an elastic waste. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/wtb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sewing_Ironing_Dec24.jpg\" alt=\"woman and teacher working on a sewing project \" class=\"wp-image-10726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wtb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sewing_Ironing_Dec24.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wtb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sewing_Ironing_Dec24-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wtb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sewing_Ironing_Dec24-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wtb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sewing_Ironing_Dec24-560x421.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Volunteer teachers help the women learn to sew. (Photo from 2024) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When they complete the course, they go home with the fabric, notions and machine so they can make things and continue to learn on their own.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jennifer says she has given away more than 500 sewing machines over the years, all donated. She gathers a group of regulars at her home to repair, clean, oil and prep the machine which are  much prized by the women.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next class will begin on December 4 and Jennifer already has 8 students from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snccsyr.org\/\">Northeast Community Center Syracuse <\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;d been standing by the Northside Learning Center on Thursday, November 6 you would have seen women from Afghanistan, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wtb.org\/?p=11090\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programs",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11091,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11090\/revisions\/11091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}