Mask crafted by Firefly Michele Miroff
While it is totally not cool that ANYONE has. had to scrounge for PPE – especially essential workers, ESPECIALLY healthcare folks! – We have decided to be grateful that out of that challenge has come a beautiful, thoughtful, heartfelt art form.
We can hardly get close enough to look each other in the eye and yet now so many crafty people have found a way to lovingly hug our faces.
And…because, on balance, masks themselves really are more courtesy than personal protection, we immediately get to pay the care forward.
And…it’s not a bad business. They’re fairly simple to make and yet imagination is the limit. People need lots of them….
So…talk about socially conscious fashion that is form and function!
Trudy has been busily making them for family and neighbors. In our Firefly Lights, you can read about Kirk Larsen and his #maskforce #teachersgettingitdone
Did you see this article about the Luchador in Mexico?
How about this much more local bit in The Observer about The Engeman Theater?
CBSN New York shows a 95-year old Floral Park seamstress who’s part of a volunteer corp founded in Huntington “Stitched Together Long Island” that has made more than 20,000 masks for essential workers.
The Mask Mavens of Huntington is a small team of volunteers that are sewing and giving away homemade masks for free to any and all who need them.
This article in the LIBN by Bernadette Starzee is about three entrepreneurial firms who created 5,000 masks a day to sell at cost to hospitals and first responders.
This News12 Article covers a Bellmore Fashion Designer who, with her remotely-working staff, churned out 1,000 masks in one week to donate to medical personnel.
Here’s a North Fork Patch article “Iconic Sail Makers, Brewery Make Face Masks for Hospital Heroes”
To make them yourself, and get good advice on using them, here’s a good article in Popular Mechanics.
