Little Dresses for Africa. . .
The York County Quilters has taken on a project of making dresses for orphaned children in Africa. We have had a work-shop of our members to get together and work as a unit to make dresses, and members also work on their own time at home or with their small splinter groups. We plan on having more workshops for this on-going project. 
Little girls in Africa are considered the least important of persons and do most of the work and if lucky enough to have clothes, they are usually rags. The lucky ones who have no parents, or parents who can't take care of them, live in orphanages.
We make the dresses of fabric we have or out of pillowcases. They are simple and fast to make. When we finish and have enough to send, we mail to Rachel O'Neill who started this project.
So far they have sent more than 65,000 dresses to Africa. If anyone is going to Africa and can take extra baggage they can contact Rachel O'Neill and she will tell you what to do. If you don't sew and would like to help, she also needs donations to help send the packages to Africa to her contacts.
One hundred percent of any donation is used for the project. Rachel will be having an auction in November and would love to have donated items sent to her to make money for the project. Other than little dresses, they also need little britches for boys made from very simple patterns of just a front and back with elastic in the waist.
Go to her website and get all the information you need. She tells how to make the dresses, how to size them, and there's a pattern for the arm holes.
For information on how you can get involved in this project, please see Gail Moss at the guild meeting or you can contact her through our contact page.
www.littledressesforafrica.org
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| Paule Fox, trim vendor | |
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| Gail Moss busily sewing the dresses | |
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| Floy Herbener working with her fabric | |
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| Floy Ervin - busy working | |
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| Carol Davis, Paule Fox, Lynda Elliott picking out trim | |
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| Joyce Walton working on her dresses | |
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| Gail Moss and Mary Bell at the workshop |