YES I'M PRETTY SURE IT'S FRIDAY.

Wow time may fly  when you are having fun, but it sure slows down to a crawl when you are stuck in your house by yourself!  This has been a very long week and I fear it is only the beginning.  That said, I have been keeping busy sewing. I had hoped to get some cleaning, decluttering and organizing done, but that bug has not bit me yet.

Today I focused on sewing face masks. Lindsay and Nate, my daughter-in-law and son, asked me to make some and send them to them in California.  So far I have sewn 20 of them.  My goal is 50 by Monday, when I hope to mail them. I still have lots of sewing to do since today I received an urgent request for 5 to go to Maryland. Of course I said yes. This means however I have 35 to make in the next two day.s I may need to adjust my mailing date to Tuesday.

I'm making two different styles. The one I began making is a flat pleated mask with ties.  It is the bottom one in the picture. I started with this design because I did not have any elastic. It is just not available anywhere. Lindsay ordered some to be sent to me, but it hasn't arrived yet.  My fear is it is back-ordered and will not arrive till sometime in April.

The other design is the top one and is a more fitted mask. It is the  one that needs the elastic.  I was blessed today by three friends who discovered that they had some 1/4" elastic in their sewing room and offered it to me. I think it is enough that I can get 20 or so masks made in this style. After that if the other elastic hasn't arrived I will go back to the flat masks.

I am very happy that I have plenty of fabric to make these masks.  They are not perfect and they definitely not as effective as medical grade masks, but they are better than nothing and probably better than having to reuse the medical grade ones for several days or more. I just wish I could sew faster.

My only question is why does our President insist that everyone has all the supplies they need in the hospitals when Drs. and nurses continually report how they are using makeshift supplies and reusing things that are to me single use items because they have nothing else. Someone is lying and I'm pretty sure I know who it is.