Showing posts with label Gordon College trip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gordon College trip. Show all posts

Monday, April 25, 2011

Desperately seeking....Pillowcases!!

It appears I have used all of our donated pillowcases and desperately need more for upcoming "orders" for pillowcase dresses for Dress a Girl!  I just got a request for 200 dresses from Gordon College!  They are going to Honduras on May 22nd and I will need all the help I can to get those dresses made!  Don't forget I am still madly sewing for David Wagner's request to dress 10,000 girls in Africa and South America in July!  So thankful that Rachel has agreed to send 5,000 of them from Dress a Girl Around the World's headquarters in Arizona!  That still leaves alot for us to make and ship to Florida!

Please consider donating your old (or new) pillowcases and sheets to Dress a Girl.  The pictures on the girls faces when they receive a dress are priceless! Email me at dressagirlct@gmail.com for more information on where to send your pillowcase, sheets and fabric donations!  Thank you!





Thursday, March 24, 2011

Start your engines (or sewing machines!)

Ladies, the Gordon College trip to Nicaragua was a huge success and has prompted a ripple effect!  One of the professors that went on the trip is going to Honduras in May and is asking for dresses for that trip.  She doesn't have an exact number yet, but we are starting with assuming 100 pillowcase dresses.  There are actually two groups going so we will wait and see how many we actually need.  However, couple that with the 10,000 dresses we are sewing for David Wagner of Father's Heart Ministries & well, yikes!

So, if you can sew and would like to help a great cause in providing a dress for a little girl internationally, please help!  We need lots of dresses!  Which also means we need lots of pillowcases & sheets, elastic, ribbon and bias tape! 

Don't know how to sew and want to help?  There are lots of ways! 
  • Do a pillowcase drive among your friends, neighbors and co-workers.  Wash them as they come in and then drop them off with me.  
  • Come to our next sewing event April 1st at Cornerstone Church in Cheshire.  
  • Start your own sewing circle or event.  
  • When going to yard/tag sales, ask if they'd donate sheets, pillowcases or fabric to our DAGATW.
Thanks for stopping by and please consider helping.  Even sharing this blog with your friends via Facebook or email will raise awareness and possibly prompt someone to help out!

Have a blessed day!  (And start your engines!)

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Girls blessed in Nicaragua

My niece, Mary, returned home on Sunday from a week at a CICRIN orpahange in Nicaragua on a missions trip with her school, Gordon College.  They brought 180 pillowcase dresses with them and she just emailed me her pictures of the dresses she handed out to the girls in the orphanage they visited and worked at.  They divided up the dresses and each of the students carried some in their luggage. 

Here are Mary's pictures:
Fabric I purchased for dresses!  Sew cute!
More fabric I purchased for dresses...
Actually started as a pillowcase...
More fabric I purchased-beautiful girl!
Purchased this fabric too-love it!
What a beautiful bunch of girls!