Don't forget to figure in extra time for disassembling the dresses!!! I'm working on turning 30 of my grandmother's handmade dresses into quilts for the family and it took me about 2 weeks to get the dresses all disassembled. It's a lot of work and dresses tend to not have seams that are on the straight-of-grain (all the flares and tucks) so you can't just rip the seams out like you can with some shirts.