Success StoryForm Fitting Cloth Mask Making



Form Fitting Cloth Mask Making

Author: Lyndall Harned

Planning Unit: Boyd County CES

Major Program: Promoting Healthy Homes and Communities (general)

Plan of Work: Unrelated to a specified County Plan of Work

Outcome: Initial Outcome

I was contacted by the local hospital about the Homemakers making cloth mask for them since, at that time, PPE was next to impossible to find to purchase. So I contacted our two Master Clothing Volunteers, one of which aslo happened to be our county Homemaker president. They rallied the troops and got several other ladies to volunteer to ,ake the masks. KDMC, the health care center, paid for the materials, which the ag and hort agent ordered and picked up. The material was made into packets that were delivered by the ag agent to the Homnemakers homes. And when masks were made and ready to pick up, were picked up by the ag agent and delivered to KDMC. These were double layered, not fold mask with an isertion slot for HEPA filter material. They also had a 'pocket' on the inside over the nose that was for fuzzy wire to be inserted into to clamp on the nose, which made for less fogging of glasses or eye protection equipment and held onto the nose better with out slipping. One of the Homemakers arranged for all of the fuzzy wire to be donated by the local school system.  Due to the material used and the design of the form fitting masks, these were harder to make that the more common three fold mask many made.in total, over a three month period, the Homemakers made almost 1,200 of these masks. The feed back, which we are still getting, from the hospital administration and workers was that they really liked our masks and their design because they were better to use than the easier masks.






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