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redwitch

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6. Yes! Get sewing!

Reply to Goodheart (Original post)

Thu Mar 26, 2020, 10:06 PM

Mar 2020

My group is making them for a nurse who is distributing them to nurses and health aides in group homes for developmentally disabled adults. The masks have a pocket to insert filter material. Also useful for the volunteers at the local food pantry who have gotten some of ours. Little places will be waiting a while for regulation masks, the need in hospitals for those is overwhelming.

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Sewing cloth surgical masks at home. Are they still needed? [View all] Goodheart Mar 2020 OP

maybe for neighbors or low level care facilities? nt msongs Mar 2020 #1

That's a great idea eleny Mar 2020 #3

My daughter in law is a lab tech at a large hospital and she borrowed my wife's sewing machine today zackymilly Mar 2020 #2

I'm making some...figured I'd give to neighbors. stillcool Mar 2020 #4

We gave some to our clinic- DUgosh Mar 2020 #5

How many did you make? Goodheart Mar 2020 #7

Yes! Get sewing! redwitch Mar 2020 #6

Thanks for the info. Goodheart Mar 2020 #10

States ordering equipment are in competition for the same limited supply. summer_in_TX Mar 2020 #8

i want 1 dweller Mar 2020 #9

If you still need one after Monday, PM me. Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #12

bless you Ms T 🙏🏻 dweller Mar 2020 #13

Don't hint... just ask :) Marrah_Goodman Mar 2020 #15

well, i did dweller Mar 2020 #16

Ugh, I am so sorry. Marrah_Goodman Mar 2020 #17

I just sliced a sliver of my forefinger off with the rolling cutter. I screamed and my dog went Goodheart Mar 2020 #11

I am still making them Marrah_Goodman Mar 2020 #14