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I have a dear friend who is making a quilts for *MAKING MEMORIES*......its for breast cancer survivors and people donate their wedding dresses and the profits go to Making Memories.
The people that send their gowns to
the organization are
sold.......the ones that are
ripped or stained are sent
to people like me that offer to
make a quilt to also be sold in
one of their sales...
The only problem she is
having.....is that they sent her
dresses to use but many are
unusable...for instance...one
that she picked up out of the
box was vintage...and VERY
RIPE........one of them I think
came here with the wagon
train...*giggle* and was stored
in a coal bin....very very gray
...She had it cleaned but to no
avail...To put all the time and
care into making a quilt it
would be silly to use something
that would fall apart with the
first use.
The saving grace for her to get
started was that a girlfriend of
mine mentioned it at work and a
co-worker donated her wedding
dress to her.....it is lovely
and has nice new satin and lace
that sheI can readily use.
So anyway...I just thought that
I would mention it in case
you hear of a lonely wedding
dress that someone is hoping
will be put to good use and they
don't really want to see it
sitting in a thrift store..:)
Thanks
http://www.makingmemories.org/gowns2.html If you know anyone, please email me and we can make arrangements to get the dress to Linda. |