Tuesday, 4 March 2025

04-Mar-2025 : Sewing Challenge 2025 - 3 More dresses

 The first week of  The 100 Day Project has just completed and here are 3 more dresses I have sewn to complete the first batch of dresses for the 100 day challenge. There will be 10 batches for 100 days. These second group of dresses which is included in Batch 1 have  been sewn from the 27th of Feb to the 3rd of March.

These dresses have been added to my FY25 Sewing Challenge Album. You can check the album by clicking on the image above or click on the link below. Batch 1 has a total of 8 dresses and looking forward to sewing for Batch #2 in the next few days. 

FY25 - Sewing Challenge-100 Dresses in 100 Days by Dress A Girl Australia

If anyone wants to help raise funds for the Children's Cancer Institute, please click here. Thank you.



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Thursday, 27 February 2025

27-Feb-2025 : Sewing Challenge 2025 - 100 dresses in 100 days

 It has been awhile since I did a sewing challenge. This year I am challenging myself to 100 dresses in 100 days. I joined a challenge called The 100 Day Project which started last Sunday(23-Feb-2025) and ends on the 2nd of Jun. I thought this was a very good opportunity for me to do 100 dresses as well although my main project is actually drawing 100 houses in 100 days. It does not take me long to sew one dress so I added this in as a personal challenge on the side. That would mean i draw one house and sew one dress everyday if possible for the next 100 days and let me not forget that starting this Saturday, 1st of March is the start day of my commitment to walk 150kms for kids with cancer. I have the whole month of March to do the 150kms but since I already walk everyday I do not see this as a problem unless it will be too hot during the day or it rains. I did the Camino de Santiago in 2023 and walked 155kms in 8 days.

At the moment, I am not thinking and/or planning distributions. I just want to sew 100 dresses in 100 days. One dress, one plan at a time.

So far, I have drawn 6/100 houses since I started last Sunday and have sewn 5/100 dresses. I just need to re-organize my time, what my priorities are during the day. I will not be showing any of my drawings here but see below the five dresses I have done so far.

I think I have 3-5 more cuts of the same fabric and the bolt is done.
I created an album so I can keep track of my sewing. I will only be posting what I have completed every week but if anyone is interested to check it out, please click here.

If anyone wants to help raise funds for the Children's Cancer Institute, please click here. Thank you.


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Friday, 21 February 2025

21-Feb-2025 : 86K for a Cure this March

I am back this year to help raise funds for kids with cancer.  I am taking part in the 86K for a Cure to help find a cure for childhood cancer and will be walking 150km this month of March.

If you want to help to raise funds for the Children's Cancer Institute, please click on the image below to support my commitment to walk 150km for the '86k for a Cure' this month of March or you can click here.

Thank you! Much appreciated.

#curingchildhoodcancer #childrenscancerinstitute #makeadifference #softtreasures #86Kforacure


Sunday, 9 February 2025

09-Feb-2025 : Important Information for everyone

 Hello everyone, Recently I have been getting a lot of enquiries on who to get in touch with if anyone wants to make a donation from several locations to Dress A Girl Australia. Please be advised that there is no one from any location who you can get in touch with. Dress A Girl Australia is an individual effort of mine to make a difference. Unlike other similar efforts, there are no sponsorships for DAG. Any enquiries regarding this campaign should be made directly to me by using the 'Çontact Me' form which you will find at the top of this page or you can click on the link below.

Contact Dress A Girl Australia

Thank you.


Saturday, 18 January 2025

Sewing in the new year 2025

Before anything else, happy new year! I hope the first two weeks of 2025 have been amazing for everyone and here's to a fantastic year ahead!

Looks like my mojo for sewing is back and hopefully for the rest of the year. And here is my first handmade for the year - a pair of shorts.

With the cost of living going up everytime I look out the window, it is very difficult to make a commitment to continue providing handmade clothes to disadvantaged children. Last year I did not make any distributions at all due to financial constraints. But I would love to do it again this year, perhaps twice or at least once as my contribution to the Holy Year celebration  and give hope to disadvantaged children. In case one is not aware, the Pope has declared 2025 as a Jubilee year with a theme of hope and one of the ways one can make a contribution is a work of mercy. Perform a corporal work of mercy such as feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick. Providing handmade dresses to disadvantaged children is a good example of a work of mercy which I hope I can do this year of Jubilee. Have quite a few dresses I made last year waiting to be distributed and with my sewing mojo back I think I will have or can have more dresses to give and become a pilgrim of hope this year. 

Saturday, 23 November 2024

23-Nov-2024 : Personalised Christmas Stockings for this Christmas!

Make your gift more special at Christmas and make it a treasure to keep with my stocking-shaped bags which you can hang on a mantelpiece or on a Christmas tree for Santa to put small gifts on Christmas eve. The most traditional christmas decor you will find in houses during the Christmas season.


Click here to check them out or click on the link below : You will not be disappointed.

Christmas Stockings

For enquiries, click here.   Thank you.                                 

Friday, 22 November 2024

22-Nov-2024 : Christmas is just around the corner!

Christmas is just around the corner! Check out these handmade fabric advent calendars. They are selling quite fast and quantities are very limited. Most of them are one of a kind only.

Click here to check them out or you can click on the link below : You will not be disappointed.

Monday, 18 November 2024

18-Nov-2024 : Update on Dress A Girl Australia

As much as I wanted to but due to some unavoidable financial circumstances, this year has not been a productive year for Dress A Girl Australia. Am keeping my fingers crossed that next year, the new year 2025 will bring more luck so I can continue providing dresses to the less fortunate. More information will be provided in the new year. Thank you.

Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Reminders on how to make dress donations and guidelines

 Lately, I have been getting a few enquiries about dress donations. Due to space problems at home, I can no longer accept continous dress donations unless I have a specific location to send them to. Cut-off dates when a location is identified will be posted on this site.

Dress a Girl Australia is not financed and/or sponsored by anyone. Due to the regularly increasing cost of postage and cost of distributing dresses I would now require a donation of $2.00 per dress if you want to donate a dress. Below are a couple of links which can give anyone an idea as to how to donate dresses and guidelines on how to make and/or sew a dress to donate.

Guidelines on Dress Donations

Guidelines on How to Make Dresses

For any questions and/or clarifications, please feel free to send me an email. Or send me a message using the 'Çontact Me' tab at the top of this page. Thank you.

Monday, 8 January 2024

08-Jan-2024 : Donation #1/2024 - Dress Donations from Berkley Vale High School

 Received in December 2023 but acknowledging only today are 13 dress donations from a group of senior students of Berkley Vale High School sent by their sewing teacher Katrina Hill.

Click on the image above or click here to see more of the 13 dresses. Thank you to the group and to Katrina for the dress donations and thank you as well for the postage donation. It is very much appreciated.


08-Jan-2024 : Dress a Girl Australia's Final Stats for Year 2023

It is time to post the 2023 stats for Dress A Girl Australia. Two locations were recipients of the dresses I made. Total number of dresses distributed was 34 only, a few toys and childrens' books and magazines. Distributions were made in Portugal and a special community in Queensland. 

With the above 2023 distributions added to the grand total, below is a summary of Dress A Girl Australia's grand total distributions -

  • Total number of dresses  - 10,190
  • Total number of t-shirts/boys' sets  - 1,175
  • Total number of shorts for boys only  - 789

More details on the chart below for 2023 -

Now that everything seems to be back to normal, I hope to continue distributions in the future. Thank you.

Dress Distribution #125 - Sharing Dresses for Queensland

 This distribution was made last November 2023 but am only writing the article today. The 20 dresses below were given to a community in Queensland by another acquaintance. Also included in the parcel were childrens books, magazines and toys for a centre that was being established in the area for this special community. I was not able to take pictures of the childrens' books and magazines but the toys I donated for the centre are on the image below. 

These are the dresses -

and the toys -
It was quite difficult to make a difference during the past 3 years due to the global pandemic and more expensive cost of sending parcels and distributing the dresses. Was glad I was still able to help make a difference last year in my own little way. If you are interested to make a difference this year, please check out the following info below by clicking on the links. You will also find the links on the left side navigation pane on this page.


For more information please feel free to send me an email or click on the ''Çontact Me'' tab at the top of this page.  Thank you.


Dress Distribution #124 - To an Orphanage in Portugal

It has been a while since I was able to make a difference. I am only writing this article now but this distribution was made in May 2023 when I had a trip to Spain and Portugal. I handed it over to an acquaintance of mine who worked in an agency dealing with children in refugee camps. Unfortunately there were no pictures as I had such a limited time. I made and took 14 dresses with me and these are the dresses -

Click on the image above or click here if anyone wants to see more details of the dresses I made. 

Saturday, 23 December 2023

Sunday, 22 October 2023

2023 Sewing Marathon : Dress #11 to Dress #18

 22-Oct-2023 : Sewn eight (8) dresses the past 5 days. 

Please click on the image above if you want to see the other handmade dresses I have made so far.

More to come... fabrics and dresses.