For those of you who have requested information regarding the Little Dresses for Africa that I do as part of my churchs mission projects. Here it is: We work with Nancy Zieman of Beaver Dam Wisconsin - the same Nancy Zieman of the PBS show Sewing With Nancy and the website Nancys Notions. At church we meet Wednesday mornings. Currently there are 5 of us - 2 of us are dedicated sewers. During the 2 hours we meet, one woman cuts the fabrics, then Im given them to serge the backseam. On to the woman who cuts the armholes, and finally to the 2 or sometimes 3 women who are the design team - adding the trims, elastic for the upper casings, and the bias tape for the armholes and ties. They then get put in plastic Ziploc bags and are placed in baskets in fellowship hall for people to take home and assemble. Once we are done for the year, we take a fieldtrip to Nancys Notions to deliver our contribution. It appears that we will have somewhere between 130 and 150 dresses complete. Nancy then covers the cost of postage to mail them wherever in the world the need is. Im told that has been South America as well as Africa. Im sure there are other places I do not yet know of. I am furtherto ld that Nancy has been responsible to delivering around 100,000 dresses to needy girls. Here is a link to Nancys website where you will find the Little Dresses for Africa, as well as Little Britches for boys - made from t-shirts where the emblems show on the boys legs. And..the pillowcase dresses. If you have any further questions, please feel free to message me. We are currently trying to put together some guidelines for pockets, which I will gladly share with you when we have them complete. Just leave me your email address in a Personal Message. Here are 3 of the Small Dresses that Ive made. and heres nancys website: https://nancysnotions/text/pdf/LittleDressesforAfrica_pattern.pdf nancysnotions/text/pdf/britchesforboyspattern.pdf
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:51:40 +0000
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