If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. A local sewing group has an ambitious goal to sew 30,000 fabric masks for Southern ...

Amid a shortage of medical-grade masks, federal guidelines now recommend everyone wear face coverings out in public. Here's ...

Unthinkable scenarios happened in early March. The COVID-19 pandemic hurled itself into Northern Virginia; small and large businesses shuttered and unemployment rates escalated. At the same time, ...

Like countless Minnesotans in this COVID-crushed economy, Katherine Elliot recently found herself without a job. A fashion designer by avocation, she supported herself with a great day job — selling ...

Nelle Bush is a Havertown resident with a passion for sewing and helping others. In her regular job, she designs and makes handbags and accessories. She heard of the need for protective masks for ...

Kristina Wong is an actress and comedian known for her one-woman shows. But she traded the stage for a sewing machine and formed a team of volunteers to make masks during the coronavirus pandemic.The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Susabelle Kelmer didn’t think twice about volunteering to make face masks to help stop the spread of the coronavirus in Colorado — she just sat down at her ...

Let me tell you from the get-go that the creator of one of the nation’s largest and most diverse grass-roots mask-making efforts did not intend to start a movement, to mobilize the masses, to spend ...

The patterned drone of the sewing machine has been constant, much like the ringing doorbell alerting the family that another bag of materials has been left at the door. Whatsapp message notifications ...

If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. When Los Angeles-based performance artist Kristina Wong started a mask-making group early in ...