When the performing arts went on hold due to the pandemic, local seamstresses and costumers got busy organizing legions of Nashville sewists in the effort to provide reusable masks to health care workers. June Houghton Kingsbury worked with her neighbor, a surgeon, to design a fabric mask cover that would extend the use of PPE. She was joined by Lea Coppoletta Maitlen, Lori Gann-Smith, Nora Catherine and others in starting a Facebook group that organized more than 800 volunteers to make and deliver masks to our region’s health care facilities. The group estimates that it delivered over 10,000 masks and mask covers. ERICA CICCARONE
Best Stitchers
MedThreads Volunteers Nashville
