Seamstresses and seamsters – we think you’re amazing!
This really is the time for sewists all over the UK to “step up to the plate” and get going in order to support our hard pressed NHS at these difficult time – and my work, how they’re responded!
Never have sewing skills been more urgently needed than they are now. Women, men and children have all been chipping in with scrubs, masks, headbands and washing bags by the thousand – being produced by young and old alike.
We always knew the sewing community consisted of the most marvellous individuals and groups!
To all those who are using their shiny new overlockers or eighty years old classic sewing machines, we at GUR are saying a heartfelt “well done” to all of you!
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Here are some of our favourite recent shining examples:-
- A retired headteacher has been putting his talents to good use – and sewing scrubs for NHS staff.
- Jen Legg is a member of a group sewing scrubs for James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.
- Meet the sofa-making bosses using their factory to create 30,000 PPE kits a week.
- Agricultural college bedsheets transformed into gowns for NHS frontline.
- Sewers are vital thread to cover for UK shortage in hospital uniforms.
- Michelle O’Neill hails 8,500-strong army sewing up scrubs for health heroes.
- Sienna gets resourceful with great grandma’s sewing machine.
- A former seamstress has mobilised an army of needle-workers to make essential scrubs for a hospice’s frontline nurses.
- Swansea valley dressmakers make scrubs to support NHS staff.
Well done all of you – raise a glass to yourselves and each other.