Please Pick Up

I am almost sure that I have sent a PM through Facebook to each of these names and reminded them to be sure to pick up their masks.  Please pick them up by Sunday.  If they don't get picked up they will go back into the rotation for others.  I hope I am not coming across as angry...we just need the room for more masks now that our county must wear them a mask when we are out and about.  We are getting lots of order and so far we have been able to keep ahead of the game.  We have also been cutting some smaller children's masks.

There are three sewers left in our little arm of sewers and we have been sewing daily for months on end.  So next week we are taking a break and regrouping, cutting masks, cutting elastic, getting our machines tuned up, and getting ready to start up production again on July 19th.  

So please come by and pick up your masks at 1224 Eagle Ridge Road.  They are on the front porch bench.  Can't miss them.

Back In Business

I have had several inquires about the availability of our masks.  Yes, we have them.  Free of charge.  Donations accepted.  All this week will be earmarked for New Life Furniture.

We even have a few for children.

Text me or send a Private Message on Facebook and I will get back to you ASAP.

As always your masks will be in a baggie with your name on it on the bench to the right of the front door.

Stay Safe Everyone

Gearing Up

In my mind, I am thinking that come to the end of summer and when the schools decide to do what is best for us...we might need to get a head start on kid's masks.  So I have made some kits which are on the front porch for any sewers in our Little Army that would like to help start our stockpile.  Or if there is someone out there that needs a mask for a little one, we do have some already sewn.

Precious Notes

Betsy shared this with me today.

I Have A System

Most nights I am up late after the house is quiet.  Mark and Michael have gone upstairs and the dogs are snoring under my feet.  I grab a few pieces of fabric and cut and many 9x6 rectangles as my carpal tunnel will let me.  I stack the rectangles by the machine.  Then I cut whatever we have to use for the pieces that go around the ear.  So that makes two piles on the table so far.

I check the notebooks where I write down every order from the day.  At the end of the night I add them all up so we can keep a somewhat accurate tally of masks that we have given away...so far we have given away 1,784 masks.  1137 of them have been picked up from the porch.  Every night I look at that number and shake my head and smile.

Then when I get up in the morning I begin sewing masks.  When  I finish a pile I turn them and pin in the pleats.  Then they go into a 

pile and I sew a few more.  Once I get tired of that I will sew the ones with the pleats.  I got back to the pile that I just pinned and sew the rest of them.  Then they all get a light press.  And the process begins all over again.  So far it has worked out.  I am up and down filling orders and putting them on the porch.  I try to remember to let everyone know that their masks are ready by a text or PM.  It has been an amazing journey.  I have met some amazing people.  And been blessed by lots of generous people.  And those blessings have been turned around to help others in our community.  Our Little Army has done amazingly awesome!!!  I am thankful.

Shannon's Delivery

She knows me tooooo well!  Chocolate to get me through the day and elastic to make more masks!  She even brought Mark and pack of M&M's too,  Can you guess which one is which?

(She brought elastic but for some reason, double-fold bias tape is in the pic...been a long day and night I guess)

He Does It Again

I get a message from someone's name that I recognize from making masks.  He says he met someone that I need to get in touch with.  He met a lady in the grocery store and she asked where he got his mask.  He told her and she said to tell me that I needed to get in touch with her.  A little bit later his wife sends me a message...same request.  I think I was up to my eyeballs in masks sewing and I didn't stop just them to get in touch with this mysterious lady.  I called her and the rest is history!  

She has a nonprofit organization called SOSforPPE.org.  We are both working for the same goal...providing masks to keep everyone safe.  Long story short.  Mark and I take a little field trip to her driveway.  Inside the tote, this is what I find...a bag with my name on it with elastic, two huge pieces fo fabric and several 3D bias tape makers!!!!  And I think I heard her right that if I need anything else she has it for me!

I know that I shouldn't be the least bit surprised by this because it has already happened countless, countless times during our little venture into mask making.  God always knows our need and he is working on it way before we realize it is a need.  AMAZING!