Each girl was promised a new sewing machine if they completed the project ... introduce another group of young men and women to the art of sewing," said LASC President Clenteria Drayton.

Little does she know, envious Lizette--another sewing machine girl--and avaricious Carter--who holds secrets of Bertha's past--have worse plans for her than a life of drudgery. Her only salvation ...

Leave it to BERTHA, THE SEWING MACHINE GIRL. Springing from the maudlin pages of the "The New York Weekly" onto the stage of the Bowery Theater in 1871, BERTHA, THE SEWING MACHINE GIRL was a ...

She noticed that a girl at her school was teased ... collected money and donated items to support Sewing Hope’s work, purchasing six new sewing machines and sewing materials and supplies.