Well that boat sailed so now the rooms are being used as drying racks for mask material.
We have to do laundry in the tub these days and the rooms are perfectly positioned. We got some great donations of fabric and elastic yesterday.
All that had to be scrubbed really well before and after we touched it. Olive is getting better and better at making masks. She is even getting better at making them with strings instead of elastic. I suck at sewing. Odd since I took 5 years of Home ec in school (to avoid jocks).
I just can't see very well and I'm not a very neat worker anyway.
Also I keep stabbing myself and complaining constantly. I do the laundry, clean her workspace, cut out fabric and most importantly my job is to lightly pet her hair while saying encouraging things.
The goal is to innovate so the masks take less than 30 min. each to build.
It would go much faster if we had microfiber to sew right in. Till then we are stuck having to make pockets for the masks to hold filters.
Olive includes a template to cut out the filter with. We suggest vacuum cleaner bag material but that is hard to get.
Right now Olive is rocking a coffee filter in her mask.
Every day people are showing up to pick up masks, also every day I hear someone telling Olive it isn't unethical for her to accept money for her work. They have a point, we did just get our income wiped out but still we approached this thing with the mindset of filling sandbags for the village to survive, not making money selling people something they need to avoid sickness and death. Good on ya Olive.
