Why are you doing this?
The Sewing & Craft Alliance is an initiative of two sisters, Joyce Perhac, President of FoxfireManagement, Inc. and Janice Blasko, owner of the Abbey Group, who have a passion for promoting the home sewing industry. SCA operates the www.sewing.org website as well as the National Sewing Month campaign for the sewing community. The two also join forces and produce another passion-driven event called Christmas Expo.
As mask shortages started coming to light during the week of March 16, 2020, we began receiving a growing number of requests from sewists asking about sewing masks, as well as healthcare workers asking if anyone could sew masks for them. On Thursday night, we felt we had to act on a way to bring these two together. On Friday, work began on the www.WeNeedMasks.org website. The website launched 28 hours later, on Saturday, March 21 and began to get signups within a few hours and requests have continued to come in from almost every state. We were happy to be able to provide this connection and were even happier when proper personal protection equipment became readily available to all again and we were able stop this service.