Pillow case appeal from Sidmouth seamstress making medical scrubs

A Sidmouth seamstresses creating medical scrubs for the area's NHS staff is appealing for unwanted pillow cases.

Emma Wickham, a concrete tester from Sidmouth, has stitched together a crack of seamstresses and is raising money to create medical scrubs for the area's healthcare workers, who are struggling to get hold of these essential garments.

The pillow cases, which must be clean, will be used to pack the scrub kits for distribution to Emma's team of seamstresses. If you have pillow cases you no longer need contact Emma via her Facebook page.

In three days Emma has raised more than £1,100, with a target of £1,500, to buy good quality fabrics, waistband tapes, threads and patterns.

Speaking to Nub News Emma said: "I have sewing skills and it seemed a shame not to use them while nurses and doctors are struggling to get hold of medical scrubs.

"We hear that nurses are having real problems with sourcing scrubs, with some hospitals resorting to using paper sets which are impractical and prone to breaking."

Emma is a regional coordinator of For The Love Of Scrubs, a project set up by London nurse and seamstress Ashleigh Lindsell.

"Ashleigh started making scrubs for herself and put a shout out to her community asking for help," explains Emma.

"The response was so overwhelming that she and her husband George decided to find people all over the country to act as regional coordinators."

Emma grabbed the opportunity to help with both hands and already has orders from Honiton Surgery and Exeter and East Devon's Children's Palliative Care Team.

To find out more about Emma and her team click here.