Coronavirus: 90-year-old New Lynn man sews free masks for retired neighbours
Hi neighbours. Ever since Auckland moved into alert level 3 on August 12, Allan Warburton has been sewing face masks at the Bupa Glenburn Retirement Village in New Lynn.
The masks are something he could make that could help keep his community safer, he said.
Warburton is an experienced tailor – he’s been sewing for around 50 years. He sewed his daughters’ dresses when they were young, and when he moved to the retirement village, sewed cloth bags for other residents.
It takes him a day to make one mask: Slow and steady, he said, but it’s also because his eyesight isn’t as good as it was.
“I don’t make it for money, I do it because it’s a hobby. It’s looking at a finished product, how nice it looks and that feeling of satisfaction that I made it.”
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