Nurse Aimée Goold after a 13-hour shift treating coronavirus patients © Aimée Goold The Duchess of Cambridge and the National Portrait Gallery have today (Thursday 7th May) launched Hold Still, an ambitious community photography project to capture the spirit, the mood, the hopes, the fears and the feelings of the nation as we continue to deal… Continue reading A unique opportunity to exhibit your lockdown photography at the National Portrait Gallery
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Making bags from pillowcases for dirty hospital uniforms
Last night I was contacted by an ICU nurse, from a large London Hospital, to ask if I could make some draw string bags. These are for her colleagues to put their dirty uniforms into after a hospital shift. The scrubs get washed in the hospitals, but the normal uniforms are taken home to be… Continue reading Making bags from pillowcases for dirty hospital uniforms
Make a Face Mask to help protect against Covid 19
Since, like the rest of the world, I have been in lock down I have had some time to do research into face mask making, to protect from Covid 19. I was going to create my own pattern but as there are so many mask patterns and videos on line, I decided not to reinvent… Continue reading Make a Face Mask to help protect against Covid 19