Lillian Weaver Dresses For African Girls

Across the ocean in africa in a number of countries hundreds of little girls wear dresses.

Lillian weaver dresses for african girls. All through her 90s beautiful soul lillian weber sewed beautiful basic peasant dresses. Little dresses for africa fashion show guinea bissau w africa 2012 duration. Lillian s dress a new style for little dresses for africa.

Many of us have a couple pieces of extra fabric and would be interested in knowing more about charitable initiatives. In 2008 little dresses for africa was formed by rachel o neill. Little weavers is a high end african couture brand that designs and manufactures clothing and accessories specifically for infants to teens using purely african prints.

She made and surpassed her goal making 1 234 dresses before passing away on the eve of her 101st birthday. Throughout the last few years weber has made more than 840 dresses for little dresses for africa a christian nonprofit that distributes dresses to impoverished young girls in africa and beyond. Nancy zieman of sewing with nancy shares more information about little dresses for africa project which was featured on nancy s corner with this free dress sewing tutorial.

October 24th 2015 in nancy s corner sewing sewing volunteer group by nancy zieman productions llc. Weber s goal is to make 1 000 dresses by the time she turns 100 on may 6th. Lillian weber a 99 year old good samaritan from iowa has spent the last few years sewing a dress a day for the little dresses for africa charity a christian organization that distributes dresses to children in need in africa and elsewhere.

Jun 19 2017 explore sally squire s board little dresses for africa followed by 320 people on pinterest. Lillian weber makes a dress from scratch every single day so that a child in need will have something beautiful to wear. You can read more of her incredible story in why 99 year old lillian weber is not retired.

See more ideas about little dresses pillowcase dress sewing for kids. Dress a girl around the world goes to uganda duration. Lillian s favorite styles of dresses to sew included raglan sleeves a pattern given to her by geraldine lowery.