Crafting their way through lockdown
An undated photo provided by Scott Wiggers shows Namita Gupta Wiggers in her stitched shirt, a pandemic artifact. She stitched the shirt for a year, adding Band-Aids in gold thread to signify her family members vaccinations. Scott Wiggers via The New York Times.
by Steven Kurutz
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Necessity is the mother of invention, and at the start of the pandemic, the thing everyone needed was masks. To help keep people safe, an army of home sewers banded together last spring to make face coverings and other personal protective equipment for health care workers, family members and strangers.