Kimberly Harmer lives with her family in Weatherford, Texas. She says she’s been making masks for her family since the beginning of the pandemic and now has a lot of fabric scraps.
“I got online and I started looking at patterns. Because in my mind, I thought, if I have to wear a mask, I want it to be comfortable. I want it to be individualized because I felt like if we could individualize it, it would be a more positive experience. … So when COVID started, my first thing was, OK, I’m going to the material store.”
“And so I’ve been saving all my scrap material to make some sort of blanket to commemorate this pandemic in a positive way, that we made through it, and this is what we did. And each of my kids have fabric that they like specifically, and some don’t like the others. So, as I go through those scraps, it’s kind of fun to think, oh, this was a really popular one. In fact, the one that I’ve run out of completely of the material that I purchased is of puffins – it’s a light blue with puffins on it. Boys, girls, you name it, they love it, which is so odd to me. And then other material that I’ve got, I purchased for myself and no one else likes it. So I have a lot of extra.”
