Tina McLarty made so many face masks, she blew the motor on her sewing machine.
“I had to get a new one. It actually had black smoke inside of it.”
At her peak, McLarty was making 15 or 20 cloth masks an hour, holed up in her Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., home sewing “seven in the morning till 11 o’clock at night.” She donated them to the hospital, sold them to family and friends, and raised $10,000 for local charities.
But business has dried up. She’s got an eight-foot table at home, stacked with dozens of unsold masks, spanning the colour spectrum, with ones for every holiday. She’s even
