Sewing for a Good Cause

The Sticks to Bricks charity dinner was held at the Levine Museum in Uptown Charlotte last night. Its purpose was to raise money to build a school in the Sudan. David Chadwick, pastor of the Forest Hills Church, and his wife, Marilynn--both of whom recently visited the Sudan--were a couple of the speakers; and Damien Horne provided some of the live music. Truly, an evening of culture.

Part of the event was a silent auction, which is how I became involved with the whole thing. A couple of my clients helped organize the function, and one of them asked if I would like to donate a dress to the auction. I was happy to oblige, and constructed this pretty little thing:

The main dress is made of an off-white satin with a somewhat violet hue, and the overlay is a lavender, sheer, crinkled, slightly-thicker-than-chiffon polyester. The bodice is lined with a fine cotton batiste, which makes it more comfortable to wear than a usual polyester lining would. It turned out quite nicely, and I heard several people gushing over it. For some reason, though, someone put on the card that it was a Karen Bedding dress, which is not my name; and no one knows whence came that name, either. It was very odd. However, my website was listed correctly on the card, and I am quite glad about that.

The eventual winner of the auction wanted to get the dress for his mother, but I overheard him tell someone near him that it would not fit her. Seizing the opportunity to introduce myself as the maker of the garment, I told him that I could make another one in her size. He checked with the people running the auction, and we worked out a deal: If he won the auction, I would take back this dress and make another one for his mother. He won, and I brought the dress home with me.

I will be posting more in the future about the dinner and the gorgeous dress I made to wear to it.