Sewing Little Dresses for Africa
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Sewing the Little Dresses for Africa Ms Lillian's pattern for girls
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Hi Everyone and Welcome Back to My Bucolic Life Channel. Meet my new sewing project.
I'm working through the creation of the paper pattern and the construction of a little dress. This amazing organization takes the dresses made in our sewing rooms with spare fabric and transports them to a little girl in Africa who will treasure it!
I hope you will join me in making some sweet little dresses.
If you are interested in showing your own make of this pattern,
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I was in a group that made about 265 dresses for the young girls in Kenya Africa, this was maybe 8 years ago, I don’t remember the year. It was great fun getting together to accomplish this project. One of our churches helped with the money to send these dresses! This is a wonderful memory. The pastor sent pictures of the young girls wearing their new dresses! ⭐️😊💖
I feel exactly the same as you Marie - all the little things we can do that help make it better add up. I really think that most of the good that's ever been done in the world is the sum of all the untold millions and billions of people who decided to just 'do something' even if they can't 'do everything'. This is awesome!
It's amazingly good for your mental and emotional outlook to know you are doing something. Thanks Megan 😊
That ruffled is so so cool👍
Thanks for sharing this… I’d not heard of this organization. Will consider making some. I knit and crochet blankets for those in need here in the US, but there is need everywhere…
Absolutely gorgeous! Thank you for sharing your talent with us.
Fabulous idea Marie. Sharing and kindness are some of your qualities, we can all use some of that.
I am giving it a try. I love the spirit behind this. ❤❤❤❤
Thank you SO SO MUCH for posting this! I’m excited- I have the perfect fabric in my stash for a few dresses and some shorts for the boys ! ❤
I am glad you found something that inspires you! Enjoy 😉
Brilliant! Loved your philosophical take on this very crazy time in our world! Thank you for this. I will try to follow your example and start sewing.
I actually found you making this dress and thought exactly the comment you share further in your video. This is going to help me mentally cope with our current political situation. Thank you!!! 🙏🏽
I also have this machine. Loved it for my drapery workroom. All those ruffles in the “80’s” 😅
great video.
Yes I know what you mean. I get crazy bored during winter and sewing or craft projects are the cure for my sanity.
Such a sweet and generous project. Creative activities help improve one’s outlook immensely.
Yes they do. Thanks Norma
I received a giant box of vintage, generally acrylic, yarn. I’m knitting and crocheting hats and fingerless mitts to match. There will probably be scarves and cowls too. I’m donating them to our local warming center and may look for other places too. It’s been in the teens around here. There hasn’t been snow for a month but it’s been VERY cold. I sewed a “formal” outfit for a Night to Shine volunteer Buddy I’ve got going on for 2/7. I’m working in the shadows spreading goodwill and care…keeping it feral. 🌈🌈🦋🦋
Great idea!
This is so wonderful! I will sew a few dresses! Thanks for sharing!
I can also relate 100%. As I get older I realised that life is about the next generation, the kids. We had our chance but we can make it better for ourselves and their future by giving back. Love the dress❤
Yes, and wherever they are, we can still share a little love by doing something. It's good for them and it's good for us. Thanks!
This brings back memories. I have worked this project before. It was a few years ago. Didn't know it was still going strong. This would be a good project for the winter humdrums. I'll check my fabric stash.
Love this and I love how we as sewist can really enforce those seams and ruffles to help those dresses last longer.
God bless you ! I feel inspired
What a lovely idea!! ❤😊
Love your sewing machine behind you .
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So happy to have come across your site and interest in sewing for the Little Girls of Africa. I happened to see Rachel O'Neill the year she was interviewed on Good Morning America (I think). She caught me....and that was about 15 yrs. ago. I have been making them since then, plus little britches for boys, and the Sani-Panti washable pads for the girls. It is one of my favorite projects. Your video and the video on site In Africa will surely bring many new sewists to join in. Thanking God for you. I am elderly but still sewing. Miss Lillian was such an inspiration to me. I use many different patterns with some moderate changes.
This definitely sound like something I'd like to be involved in. Thank you for sharing this❤
Beautiful job!
We need to all sew for our own country. My country for example has hundreds of thousands of little kids who have nothing
Absolutely no one is going to stop you from sewing when you see a need. Go for it!
Great job Marie. I’ve seen Michelle Sews ?? do something similar for wee girls 🙋🏼🏴
Cute little blue dress for little girls of Africa.
I've figured out that sleeve seam 'mismatch', with a bit of geometry. Both the front/back and sleeve pieces have a triangle cut away from a right-angle corner. So long as you measure a matching distance across the "top edge" from the corners, and a matching distance down the "side edge" from the same corners when making the patterns the seams will match. It looks to me like measuring 4-and-3/4 inches in both the 'across' and 'down' directions from the corners on the dress and sleeve armhole patterns, connecting them, and using that as the cutting line will include the 1/4" seam allowance and make the seams match. I hope that helps someone. 🙂
You can also use quilting thread as the pull thread. Use a shallow zig zag stitch that is slightly wider than the quilting thread. Start inside where the stitching line is and zig zag around the thick quilting thread making sure you do not catch the quilting thread in the zig zag stitching. When you are finished going around leave 2-3 inches quilting thread for pulling. Tie one end of the quilt and zig zag stitches in a knot and pull the other quilt thread to make a perfect gather. Tie that end and sew the gather to the garment. Easy way to do w/o a gather attachment. And with a snip of the thread the quilting thread will pull to give less bulk. After it is sewn in place that is and you are sure it is correctly placed.
Yet another way to gather. You will need a 5/8" seam allowance because of the way you hold the fabric. Take the ruffle under your presser foot. Needle down.. place left and right fingers just in front of presser foot and push it under.(The gather) Sew for about a quarter inch and stop. Push another half inch of fabric under the foot. Sew. This is why you need a larger seam allowance. You need something to hang on to on the right side of the presser foot. Compair the length you have gathered and see if you need to go over it again. This makes a nice 2 to 1 ratio. And no double thread breakage meltdowns!
I almost flunked 8th grade sewing, so you can learn. My Mom was my best teacher! RIP Mom
I tried the fuse and gather tape years ago to make my daughter a multi row gathered skirt. I sewed the side seams, then stretched it out, and the elastic thread pulled out!! I stopped pulling right away, but never had the energy to re thread that elastic through. :(
Wish you could put measurements on the patterm
I was volunteering with a church group upcycling pillowcases into dresses. It still shocks me remembering a simple dress keeps predators away even more so if the dress is labelled with the organization name
Marie, where do you send the finished products? Is there a clearing house in USA? I'm wondering about the postage cost to Africa. 😳
I have that info at the end of the video. It's also on their website. Please check the link in the description. Thanks!
I've tried accessing the website above but my computer will not open the website as it says there is a 'threat'. Can you please list here where I can send any dresses I make and where I can download the full pattern.
Try accessing the website from a different web browser. The website is accessible - it seems that you may have some kind of fire wall or anti virus software blocking it by mistake.
21805 Woodruff Road, Rockwood, MI 48173
hello i see you use a sergger but i dont have one so what to do, need feedback plz. thks
Could you zig zag over the edges so they won't fray?
Okay, so I have tried for years to join and send the dresses, pads, shorts and hygiene kits with no success. I do not know what I have been doing WRONG. I need help. Please
I don't think you have to join anything. Just make your items and ship them to their address. 21805 Woodruff Road, Rockwood, MI 48173
You look around please I have neighbors right here that need dresses and pants!
Then please sew some for them!
Is this the same organization that dress a girl around the world? Mari Sews does donations 1 x year to that one.
This is different, but it is a similar idea. Please sew for wherever you feel like you should!
We may sewing dresses for the children of America and Canada soon!!
Sew for anyone you like! It's a good pattern.
You were supposed to do the fourth of an inch on all edges to be sewn
Last year I tried to find a group to which I could send The Little dresses for Africa. Basically I was told I needed to find a missionary and set up a connection myself. I have no idea how to do that in Canada. Very disappointing and again a lesson to only donate to small local and visibly active charities.
I don't know Canada regulations. Their address is 21805 Woodruff Road, Rockwood, MI 48173
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