Fighting brain cancer, little Giada Demma was lying in her pediatric hospital bed, her tiny body virtually swimming in a drab green hospital gown. Her cousin Giuliana Demma remembers looking at the 1-year-old and thinking how sad the scene was: a small child awash in an ugly gown several sizes too big for her. Inspired by that moment, Giuliana Demma, 13, and her 11-year-old sister Audrina have sewn and donated over 1,800 brightly colored, playfully patterned gowns to hospitalized children in 36 states and Uganda, with three other African nations set to get them in the fall. Their family hired a seamstress to make a custom Disney princess gown for little Giada, who was hospitalized in 2017. But as Giuliana grew over the next four or five years, she developed an interest in sewing, and remembered how lost her little cousin looked in a drab, ill-fitting gown a few years earlier. Once Giuliana learned to sew, her cousin was no longer hospitalized. But she told her mother she wanted to make cheerful gowns for other kids with cancer or different life-threatening illnesses. Her first creations were gowns with flamingo and Paris-themed patters for a child with cancer that her aunt knew.