9,000 masks, 500 gowns and counting...
My local guild has made more than 9,000 masks since March! I imagine a lot of you have similar stories. If it's one thing we quilters know how to do it's sew and sewing for a cause gets us sewing! The masks were distributed to a variety of service organizations around our community; Senior homes, Clinics, Health department etc. But once the Health Department heard we could could sew (and for free) they asked us if we would sew hospital type gowns! Here's the first batch being delivered. These are not for hospital use but for their employees performing other Covid related services that the Heath department is involved in. I sewed 5 of those burgundy shade gowns. Unfortunately the fabric was some nasty polyester cr__. It's not what I'd call "fun" sewing but if it helps I'm willing to pitch in. So that picture was taken a month or so ago. The health department liked / needed the gowns so much they asked us to make some...