Central Maine Women Sewing Face Masks to Help Fight Coronavirus
More than a dozen women in Central Maine are putting their sewing skills to good use by making face masks, which are currently in short supply due to the coronavirus pandemic. June Cauldwell has been sewing since the seventh grade. She makes dresses, costumes and quilts from her Mount Vernon home, and as of this week, face masks. “It just gives me a purpose in this time of being isolated from one another,” Cauldwell said. Cauldwell heard about the short supply and growing need across the country. What started as a simple idea just a few days ago, is now an organized effort with nearly 20 women at work. “It’s very exciting because it kind of reminds me of women way back in World War I and World War II, when the soldiers needed socks and washcloths and they just started knitting and sending these things out,” Cauldwell said. The…
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