Seattle-based Nordstrom says it will have its alteration teams in several states sew more hundreds of thousands of medical masks for healthcare workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus crisis. The ...
Before last week the closest thing to a protective mask seamstress June Kingsbury had made was face coverings for members of the local band Here Come the Mummies. "I've sewn almost all my life, but ...
As hospitals and medical facilities take on more patients dealing with the new coronavirus, supplies like face masks are dwindling quick. Residents have stepped up and band together to sew homemade ...
KALAMAZOO, MI -- Kellie Boers sits at her sewing machine in the living room of her Portage home with her dog, Lucy, by her side. Boers has been working 12-hour days at her makeshift workstation, ...
Mililani resident Aki Shin, 37, took a voluntary furlough from Hawaiian Airlines earlier this month and has been spending some of her time sewing fabric face masks for her ohana and friends. Shin ...
WEST LAFAYETTE – As news spread that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reconsider its recommendation on wearing masks – that do-it-yourself, cloth models churning out of pop-up ...
Jeanette Waterman spends three or four hours a day working at her sewing machine to help create masks for nurses to use at DCH Regional Medical Center. As she sews, it isn’t hard to imagine the ...
WESTBURY, New York (WABC) -- Quilters all across Long Island have come together to use their skill set for a good cause by sewing cloth face masks for hospitals in need. It all started when Mary Ellen ...