by Sr. Janet Rowley, ASC
As usage of the Sewing Room at the Wichita Center declined, the size of the room changed to keep pace. A smaller room on the ground floor replaced the original large room on second floor above the west end of the dining room. Eventually the “smaller” room was larger than needed.
Providentially, women from St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Andover asked Sr. Diane Tenbrink if we had space where they could sew simple cotton dresses for girls in poor countries.
That was incentive to do a thorough cleaning, sorting usable items (yarn, various threads, multiple scissors) and discarding the no-longer-needed items (snaps, hooks and eyes, patterns for veils). Sister Angela also transported some sewing machines to St. Louis and Sr. Barb Hudock distributed them to immigrant women.
The women have their own machines and come monthly to sew. The girls in these pictures live in Belize.
