In the early days of the first lockdown, many people were reaching for their sewing machines for the first time in ages, whilst others took up the noble art for the first time. And there was the ‘silent army’ of those who just carried on doing what they do best – sewing.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Only this time, the silent army were saving lives with their incredible production of masks and scrubs<\/a>, working late into the night in order to help keep people safe.<\/p>\n The sad thing is that coronavirus shows no signs of going away. So the sewing thousands keep working, keep producing – and keep helping to save lives.<\/p>\n Here are just a few examples of the new “secret army”. They may not wear capes, but they’re more than capable of making them!<\/em><\/p>\n The newly found importance of sewists everywhere! In the early days of the first lockdown, many people were reaching for their sewing machines for the first time in ages, whilst others took up the noble art for the first time. And there was the ‘silent army’ of those who just carried on doing what they […]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,204],"tags":[190,103,226],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sewing","category-sewing-stories","tag-sewing-heroes","tag-sewing-stories","tag-sewists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}This week’s sewing heroes<\/h3>\n
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Take a bow all of you. You are amazing!<\/em><\/h3>\n
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