Little Dresses for Africa

This past month at Church we made pillowcase dresses for the organization Little Dresses for Africa.  I had never heard of them before, but it's a really cool cause.  Using a pillowcase, bias tape, and elastic you can easily put together really cute dresses.  The pattern isn't very difficult, so all levels of sewers can help out.

These 2 dresses were actually made out of regular fabric that we then made into a pillowcase before making the dress.  Janni showed us the coolest way to make a pillowcase ever!  It's called a Burrito Pillowcase.  It's really easy.  There's a video tutorial for it here.  I think I'm going to be making pillowcases for the kids for Christmas this year, because I'm in love!

The coordinating cuteness is almost more than I can handle. 

This is my first time using Ric-rac and now I'm trying to find excuses to use it on other things.  I like it.  I like it a lot!