12-May-2024 : Happy Mother's Day!

 To all the mothers out there -

From Dress A Girl Australia

Wishing everyone a Happy Easter!

 

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.

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.

New Rules for Dress Donations

Guidelines on how to make dresses

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. 

31-Dec-2023 : Happy New Year!

 Happy New Year!

25-Dec-2023 : Merry Christmas everyone !

                                   Wishing all a Blessed Christmas !

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.

2023 Sewing Marathon : Dress #6 to Dress #10

 16-Oct-2023 : Three dresses I made over the weekend and two this morning for my 2023 Sewing Marathon. 

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.

2023 Sewing Marathon : Dress #5

10-Oct-2023 : This is the dress I made for today - Dress #5 which I will be adding to my 2023 Sewing Marathon album.

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.

2023 Sewing Marathon : Dress #4

 09-Oct-2023 : This is the dress I made for the day - Dress #4 which I will be adding to my 2023 Sewing Marathon album.

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

And here are more fabrics from my collection that I will be making into dresses in the next few days for my sewing marathon. Might take more time to sew them as some of the fabrics are small so I may need to mix & match them up to make into a dress.

More to come... fabrics and dresses.

First Sewing Marathon after 5 years

 After not much sewing a sewing marathon seemed like a good idea after 5 years and being inactive for almost 3-1/2 years due to the global pandemic. I will be sewing at least one dress a day until the end of the year and have ready-made dresses ready for distribution everytime I find a suitable location to make a distribution and/or whenever I have the chance to travel and handcarry my handmade dresses with me. 

I started sewing 2 days ago and so far has made 3 dresses...

... and there will be more to come in the next few days! A good way to make use of my fabrics in the boxes. To check out all the dresses I have made so far, please click here or click on the section '(New!)-FY23 - Sewing Marathon by Dress A Girl Australia' which you will find on the left navigation pane of any of the blog's pages. Thank you.

A Reminder for those who want to donate dresses in the future

 I would like to remind anyone who wants to make dress donations  in the future, to please read the Guidelines on How to Make Dresses and Limitations on Dress Donations using the links below. These guidelines are necessary to avoid inconveniences.

• Guidelines on How to Make Dresses
• New Rules for Dress Donations

Tutorials on how to make dresses are also available using any of the links below :

• Peasant Dress
• T-Shirt Dress Tutorial
• Pillowcase Dress Tutorial
• Recommended Dress Size Measurements
• Armhole Pattern

The guidelines are very simple enough to follow but please feel free to send me an email for any questions and/or further clarifications you may need regarding the guidelines by clicking here or clicking on the 'Contact Me' tab at the top of this page or click on the 'Contact Dress A Girl Australia Red tab on the right side of this page. Thank you.

More dresses for Portugal

I have sewn more dresses for Portugal and this brings my tally to 11. My target is 20 dresses which will weigh about 2-2.5kgs and with about 12 days to go before my planned departure, 9 more dresses to sew is achievable.

Click on the image above or click here to check the 'Dresses for Portugal' album.

Sewing Dresses for Portugal

I have started to sew dresses again. So far I have sewn 3 dresses and will be bringing with me to Portugal in May.

I hope to sew a few more in the next few days. All dresses will be posted in an album 'Dresses for Portugal' which you can find if you click on the image above or if you click here. You can also find a link to the album on the left navigational pane under '(New!) FY23 - Dress A Girl Australia - Dresses for Portugal'.

Happy Easter to All!!

 Happy  Easter to All !!