Great-grandmother from Bettendorf, Iowa, first learned the craft a whopping 91 years ago, when she was just 8 years old. Today, at age 99, Weber doesn’t just pick up a needle and thread once in a while. She makes a dress every single day – dresses that eventually find their way to kids in need halfway around the world.

“I feel like I’ve just been so blessed to be able to help somebody,” she tells Yahoo DIY. “It helps me mentally to know I’m helping these little girls.”

For the last eight years, Weber has been quietly sewing the tiny dresses by hand and adding them to a batch made by other local senior citizens for Little Dresses for Africa, a Christian non-profit that delivers the frocks to little girls in African nations, often via missions. After a local news station ran a story on Weber in August, her celebrity status snowballed as she began to get national media coverage.

“I didn’t even know about her until then. She never put her name on her dresses. She was just sewing and sending them through,” says Rachel O’Neill, who founded Little Dresses for Africa in 2008. “Her dresses are all really unique in their own way, with a little embroidery or a pocket or something special. They’re always perfect. She’s very exact. You’d never know they’re made by a woman of her age.”

Credit: Yahoo News