Nickola Boutelle has been making masks, both adult and children sizes, for her friends and co-workers at home since March 19

“You can play cops and robbers with your grandchildren. You’re the cop, and they’re the robbers. When you catch them, they have to hug you,” Nickola Boutelle said, explaining just one of the reasons for making the masks. She wanted to be able to hug her own grandchildren.

She said the masks are quick and easy to make.

She found a YouTube video on how to make a mask in five minutes. She uses cotton and flannel fabric. Some people use dryer sheets and coffee filters. 

“If you make masks out of coffee filters and dryer sheets you can’t wash them. I want to be able to put this in the washer,” Boutelle said, explaining why she likes the permanency of flannel and cotton.

Boutelle’s layout of the mask is one flannel with two pieces of cotton by having the final in between the two cotton pieces. She also makes masks with one cotton and one flannel. The type of mask she makes are ones that tie in the back. 

Boutelle has done so much ironing that the iron died on her, so she had to go to Family Dollar to get a new one that cost $10.

She has made over 100 masks and is still making more. She sells them for $5 to adults and gives them to the kids for free. 

She works at Walmart. They are now requiring them to wear masks.Her fellow workers pay for the masks by buying fabric. The head of the fabric department knows what fabric Boutelle needs. So she helps the other coworkers cut the fabric. 

She is making the masks to help keep the Superior community healthy.