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.
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.
For enquiries, click here. Thank you.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 -
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.
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 -
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.
22-Oct-2023 : Sewn eight (8) dresses the past 5 days.
More to come... fabrics and dresses.
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.
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.
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.
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...
