What Brushwood Center is Doing:
Ready, set, sew! Help make cloth face masks for community members in need. Our Cloth Face Mask Drive has provided much needed masks to healthcare providers, homeless shelters, veteran organizations, senior care facilities, and families across Lake and Cook Counties.
Mask Drive Updates:
Mask Drive Updates:
- Pick up a mask-making kit from the front porch! We are creating face mask kits, each with enough materials to make ten masks. Most of these materials were sourced through the Brushwood Art Supply Exchange (BASE).
- We are accepting donations of good quality cotton fabric ** quilting fabric is ideal **.
- More than 5,000 masks have been distributed to Vista Medical Center, Fenix Family Health Center, Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, Cedar Assisted Living, the Lovell VA, Home Instead Senior Care, Sedgebrook Senior Living Community, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Lovell Transportation Staff, the American Legion, Thresholds in Chicago, the Lake County Housing Authority, the City of North Chicago, Beacon Health, Lake County Haven, Midwest Veterans Closet, and Hope City Church of Milwaukee.
How You Can Help:
Join our team of mask-makers! There are two stations set up on the Brushwood Center front porch; one for kit pick-up and one for mask drop-off:
1) MASK-MAKING KITS: Need fabric or supplies? Brushwood Center has assembled a limited quantity of small bags with all the materials you need (except sewing machines!) from our Brushwood Art Supply Exchange (BASE). Each bag has enough fabric and elastic to produce 10 masks. Simply take a bag, sew the masks, and drop them off in the front porch bin.
2) DROP OFF CENTER: If you have mask-making materials at home (100% cotton fabric, elastic/fabric ties, and sewing equipment), please feel free to use those! Donate your sewn masks on Brushwood Center’s front porch in the donation bin. We already have a mighty team of volunteers who will handle the donation pick-ups and delivery to healthcare centers. Please email us at info@brushwoodcenter.org or message us via Facebook when you have dropped off your masks so we can track quantity.
Drop off between sunrise and dusk on the Brushwood Center front porch: 21850 North Riverwoods Road, Riverwoods, IL.
Click here for detailed sewing directions to guide you and ensure consistency across masks. It’s okay if there are small differences between masks. There are many instructional videos available online as well that you can reference.
If you represent an organization that is interested in receiving masks, contact us at info@brushwoodcenter.org
1) MASK-MAKING KITS: Need fabric or supplies? Brushwood Center has assembled a limited quantity of small bags with all the materials you need (except sewing machines!) from our Brushwood Art Supply Exchange (BASE). Each bag has enough fabric and elastic to produce 10 masks. Simply take a bag, sew the masks, and drop them off in the front porch bin.
2) DROP OFF CENTER: If you have mask-making materials at home (100% cotton fabric, elastic/fabric ties, and sewing equipment), please feel free to use those! Donate your sewn masks on Brushwood Center’s front porch in the donation bin. We already have a mighty team of volunteers who will handle the donation pick-ups and delivery to healthcare centers. Please email us at info@brushwoodcenter.org or message us via Facebook when you have dropped off your masks so we can track quantity.
Drop off between sunrise and dusk on the Brushwood Center front porch: 21850 North Riverwoods Road, Riverwoods, IL.
Click here for detailed sewing directions to guide you and ensure consistency across masks. It’s okay if there are small differences between masks. There are many instructional videos available online as well that you can reference.
If you represent an organization that is interested in receiving masks, contact us at info@brushwoodcenter.org
Special thanks to our Mask Drive partner, the North Chicago Rotary Club.
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Thank you to our incredible volunteers!
Mask Drive Volunteers:
Lele Barkhausen, Sylvia Bath, Karen Kowalski Beaman, Alexandra Beiriger, Connie Blade, Jackie Borchew, Christine Cheney, Susan Clabby, Nancy Cope, Debby Cencula Emery, Sue Entwistle, Linda Franke, Maureen Stapleton Hammond, Ruth Hutter, Judy Jenner, Sarah Karnes, Jennifer Karr, Holly Kerr, Maj Kowalski, Pam Knowles, Vibha Varshney Jain, Cheryl Longhini, Linda Lutz, Shirley Mann, Susan Mickelson, Frances Myers, Dina Najera, North Chicago Rotary, Patricia O’Donnell, Cyndi Peters, Joanne Phelan, Kasia Piechowicz, Jacalyn Ramdin-Johnson, Maureen Riedy, ReCommitted Supplies Co., Lorra Rudman, Jan Rudolf, Barbara Shimberg, Gail Sturm, Bill Sturm, Antra Swenton, Kate Tully, Jean Weeg, and Rebecca Young.
Lele Barkhausen, Sylvia Bath, Karen Kowalski Beaman, Alexandra Beiriger, Connie Blade, Jackie Borchew, Christine Cheney, Susan Clabby, Nancy Cope, Debby Cencula Emery, Sue Entwistle, Linda Franke, Maureen Stapleton Hammond, Ruth Hutter, Judy Jenner, Sarah Karnes, Jennifer Karr, Holly Kerr, Maj Kowalski, Pam Knowles, Vibha Varshney Jain, Cheryl Longhini, Linda Lutz, Shirley Mann, Susan Mickelson, Frances Myers, Dina Najera, North Chicago Rotary, Patricia O’Donnell, Cyndi Peters, Joanne Phelan, Kasia Piechowicz, Jacalyn Ramdin-Johnson, Maureen Riedy, ReCommitted Supplies Co., Lorra Rudman, Jan Rudolf, Barbara Shimberg, Gail Sturm, Bill Sturm, Antra Swenton, Kate Tully, Jean Weeg, and Rebecca Young.
