Giselle Williams and her husband Dan reinvigorated an almost 100-year-old sewing machine to make face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic. When Giselle's hairstyling and knitting businesses came to a halt during the lockdown, she got the idea to start sewing masks, and husband Dan made it possible. Dan first got the 1922 Singer Model 66 sewing machine working and then he taught his wife to sew. Dan had spent time as a youngster with his grandmother, a seamstress, and she had taught him to sew. In my wildest dreams, I would have never guessed that the time my grandmother spent with me on her Singer would come back to bear fruit responding to a real need. With the addition of another sewing machine, the duo now produce 30 masks a day and have distributed nearly 500 masks around the globe.

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