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It is with sad and heavy hearts that we announce the closure of our storefront.  We are so grateful to all of our customers.  We have made so many friends and relationships that will continue on.

Hello Friends,

As if things had not been crazy enough with the San Diego lock-downs, our little beautiful community has been targeted by rioters.  For those not familiar with San Diego geography, La Mesa is a sister community and suffered major havoc.  The news covered the major businesses that were razed, but didn't make as large a mention of the small businesses that were looted.  One is owned by a friend of my husband and they will likely not recover from this as they were already hit hard by the shut-down over the past two months.

In our last blog, we gave you some resources in mask making. I've had a lot of questions, particularly about elastic, nylon, and ties.  Elastic is scarce (we are totally out!), nylon can be obtained from old pantyhose (just cut 2" strips horizontally--across the legs and you have perfect loops), or my favorite method--make ties! Some people were confused by the ties thinking they were a specialty item that we sell--they are not.  You can make ties by cutting 2" strips of poplin (they don't need to be cut on the bias) and then either using a bias maker to...

We have been busy bees over here and we wanted to give you a few updates!  Many people are contacting us about mask making with some common questions, so we wanted to address those for you, especially as more cities begin to require (they are required here in San Diego as of Saturday 4/4/20).

Hi Friends!  Thank you all who entered our Instagram scissor giveaway.   The winner, Jacqueline S. was announced in our stories!  In other news, after a long wait, three weeks of intermittent labor contractions, and much patience the newest little babe of the Organic Fabric Company crew was born on 2/3, exactly one week after his EDA (estimated date of arrival)!  He's as precious as can be (aren't they all???).