2020 was characterized as a year of crisis - COVID 19 created chaos globally!
In an effort to help the community, I challenged myself to make 1000 face masks using fabric from my personal fabric stash.
Every set of fifty+ masks donated was placed in a Green Bag Lady free reusable shopping bag I had made and either shipped (USPS parcel pickup from my porch) or some local organisations in Denver did a porch pickup from my house.
My face mask pattern PDF with 2 styles and instructions for either cotton straps or elastic is free to download! Click on this link to be redirected to my download website:
They turn out really cute even when you just use mismatched fabric scraps:
Shipped/delivered during the pandemic:
✔️ 685 to a nurse working with the underprivileged in a homeless shelter
✔️ 51 an Arizona reservation
✔️ 50 Colorado Springs nursing home
✔️ 50 to a California nursing home
✔️ 310 hospital electrical contractor
✔️ 34 Highlands Ranch friends
✔️ 35 Hubby's colleagues
✔️ 21 Colorado family
✔️ 60 day care center staff
✔️ 16 local Parker/Centennial friends
✔️ 150 a Denver area Police Dept
✔️ 17 neighbors
✔️ 20 CNA & her colleagues a Denver Hosp.
✔️ 50 Denver shelter via church collection
✔️ 471 Denver DV shelter
✔️ 50 as yet not assigned to an organization
✔️ 4 customer service personnel
✔️ 18 North Denver friends
✔️ 43 'Nextdoor' requests
✔️ 43 Montana friends
✔️ 7 my former colleagues
✔️ Non-profit benefiting teen moms
✔️ 43 Undisclosed recipients
Hubby and me wore them whenever we were in public through 2020 & 2021 until fully vaccinated.
Within weeks I made it to my first goal of 1000 masks! On October 30th, 2020 I reached 2000 masks made! But I was eager to keep contributing to the Covid fight!
So I set a new goal 2100 total by the end of 2020!
A few times hubby Matt even helped me get fabric prepped on the weekends for the week ahead mask making!!!!!
He even made this one!
