The Wee Care Gown project is the very important service project for our guild.  All of our Wee Care Gowns are donated to the NICU’s of our local area hospitals.  They are given by the nurses to the tiny premature babies in intensive care and also are given to families for burial gowns for those who lose their babies in the NICU.

Each Birmingham guild member is required to make at least one per year.  We collect Wee Care Gowns all year long.  You may make as many as you like.  We have kits available, and patterns available if you prefer to use your own fabric.

Typically every summer, we devote at least one meeting to production of Wee Care Gowns.  It is fun to set up our assembly lines and stations to mark, cut out, serge/sew seams, and pleat these tiny gowns.  You can learn many tips from other members as we work together.  In past years, we decorated trees with Wee Care gowns for the annual Children’s Hospital Festival of Trees Gala Fundraising event.  This has raised over $3,400 for Children’s Hospital.

Read more about SAGA's Wee Care Gowns projects on the national SAGA website.  Then click on Wee Care Gown link on left hand side of the SAGA home page.  There are free patterns there for you to download.

WBHM Radio recently featured our Service Project and Festival of Trees Wee Care Tree for Children's Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Link to story on WBHM Radio