Marilyn O’Donnell from North Wales has been showing love to people all over the world by using recycled fabrics and her sewing skills to make dresses for the less fortunate, reports Ukee Washington for CBS3 Philly.

“I have all the time in the world so I can just keep sewing,” O’Donnell said.

After her husband passed away around six years ago, O’Donnell found her purpose behind her sewing machine, helping others one stitch at a time.

“I could play cards all day, I could play puzzles, I could watch television,” she said. “But I’m doing something for somebody.”

O’Donnell uses all kinds of recycled fabrics, from donated sheets, pillowcases, and curtains, and turns them into dresses.

Then she gives them away.

O’Donnell said she was inspired to start her charitable work after one of her daughters went on a volunteer trip to Haiti.

“She says, ‘Mom, you’ve never seen anything so poor in your life,’” O’Donnell said.

After hearing everything from her daughter’s trip, O’Donnell asked her friends to donate any old fabric they could, and she’s been making dresses ever since.

Each dress takes about five-and-a-half hours to make, including any detailing like flowers. So far, O’Donnell has donated at least 2,600 dresses.

Various churches groups and even O’Donnell’s grandsons have taken her dresses to Haiti, Nicaragua, and Puerto Rico.

“I’ll do it till the day I die now,” O’Donnell said.

O’Donnell has 500 more dresses ready to be donated and is currently looking for someone to take them to a country in need.

Read more about Marilyn O’Donnell’s generosity at CBS3 Philly.