Dress A Girl Around The World

I'm going to interrupt the cruise photos for a minute and tell you about an organization that I recently got involved with. Dress a Girl Around the World includes women from all over the US and a couple of foreign countries, who get together and make dresses for girls who have very little, in mostly 3rd world countries. Some of them have never had a dress. The dresses are made pretty much from pillow cases. They add ruffles and trim and turn out some lovely dresses. They also use fabric and when they do they start out with a tube of fabric, just like a pillow case and go from there. Most of the fabric and trims are donated by women who have remnants stashed away, from other projects, that they didn't want to throw away or they have pillow cases they are not using and the fabric is still is good shape. They have a web site they explains all this in more detail. It is http://dressagirlaroundtheworld.com Some folks are very creative. I'm not much of a seamstress, but I go, cut things out, press things and collect fabrics, etc. from my friends. I've collected 5 grocery bags of fabrics, buttons, thread and trims, just by mentioning it to my fellow swimmers at water aerobics. It's a very nice project.