One woman spent 12 hours sewing masks for hospital workers. A California woman spent 12 hours straight sewing masks for those on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic -- and she's not stopping ...

ELM GROVE, Wis. - In the year since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, many things have become part of daily life. At this point, we all have quite a collection of masks---many made by local ...

Every Monday morning, a growing group of refugee women line up in cars in the parking lot of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church to collect the supplies they'll need to sew cloth masks in the week to come.

The Jefferson County Extension Homemakers Club began sewing masks a few weeks after Arkansas' first covid-19 case was diagnosed in Pine Bluff. "I made masks because I felt it was the best way for me ...

Let me tell you from the get-go that the creator of one of the nation’s largest and most diverse grass-roots mask-making efforts did not intend to start a movement, to mobilize the masses, to spend ...

A Port Orchard woman has spent nearly all of her time since the COVID-19 pandemic began creating masks for others. She’s spent so much time sewing that Rachel Finn has now made over 10,000 masks. The ...

CHICAGO -- Bill Purdue waterproofs basements for a living, but he has spent the past few days in his buddy's Washington, Indiana, auto trim and upholstery shop cutting rectangles of cotton fabric that ...

Given the spread and nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, masks have now become an integral part of our “new normal.” Since most masks typically completely hide the user’s mouth, individuals within the ...

AMES, IA — During a critical face mask shortage at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, home sewers responded by pulling out fabric stashes, threading their machines and getting to work. Recently ...

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Back in the spring of 2020, face masks were in high demand and elastic cording was hard to come by. Luckily for a mother-daughter duo in Onalaska, their sizeable sewing stash meant plenty of supplies.