{"id":108343,"date":"2020-04-10T09:40:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T13:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=108343"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:25:07","slug":"theatre-professor-uses-sewing-skills-to-help-ucf-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/theatre-professor-uses-sewing-skills-to-help-ucf-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre Professor Uses Sewing Skills to Help Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Police Chief <strong>Carl Metzger \u201903MS<\/strong> prepared for the opening of the COVID-19 testing site on campus Monday, his biggest concern was the safety of his officers working the site. So he turned to his neighbor, Professor Kristina Tollefson, for a favor.<\/p>\n<p>Tollefson is the resident costume designer for Theatre Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ and knows her way around a sewing machine. He asked her if she would be willing to make 80 face masks.<\/p>\n<p>Without hesitation, Tollefson said yes and enlisted the help of her five daughters to help her finish the job faster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to help my community in any way I could. This is what theatre people do \u2014 we figure it out and make it work no matter the circumstances,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed oembed oembed-video d-flex flex-column align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><noscript><iframe title=\"Theatre Professor Uses Sewing Skills to Help Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Police\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d6h4a9_L3cg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><iframe title=\"Theatre Professor Uses Sewing Skills to Help Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Police\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d6h4a9_L3cg?feature=oembed\" class=\" lazyload\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tollefson has been teaching at Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ since 2000. Metzger and his wife, Linda, moved into her neighborhood five years ago, and they struck up an immediate friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Metzger considers the Tollefsons part of the family. Tollefson\u2019s daughters \u2014 ages 17, 15, 14, 13 and 9 \u2014 often visit the Metzgers to play with their terrier mix, Sadie, so they were eager to join in the project and help their friend.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c[Kristina] and her husband, Jason, are the most giving and caring people I know.\u201d \u2014 Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½PD Chief Carl Metzger<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt isn&#8217;t surprising that Kristina and her family are doing this.&nbsp;She and her husband, Jason, are the most giving and caring people I know,\u201d Metzger says.<\/p>\n<h2>Homemade and High Quality<\/h2>\n<p>Tollefson has a small costume-shop studio at her house where she often spends time with her daughters doing crafts, weaving and sewing. Since they began the project Saturday, they spend most of their days in the studio cranking out masks on three sewing machines and a serger, which trims and locks seams.<\/p>\n<p>Tollefson says most of the materials used for the masks have been from her personal stash with the exception of a few yards of fabric from Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\u2019s costume shop. She has been using grosgrain ribbon as ties, but as her stock started to deplete, Metzger\u2019s wife purchased and delivered some Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½-themed fabric, which she left on the doorstep, to replenish and keep operations moving.<\/p>\n<p>For the mask design itself, Tollefson is using a guide she found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/AB-Mask-20-for-a-Nurse-by-a-Nurse\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">DIY website Instructables<\/a>. The AB Mask 2.0 was created by Jessica Nandino, a former trauma nurse. All the masks are black and gold \u2014 with scrap cotton fabric of various colors used as lining \u2014 and are made with a heavyweight cotton jersey knit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outside all looks very official,\u201d she says, \u201cbecause I\u2019m a costume designer, so I was concerned that they had to go with the uniform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She can\u2019t say for certain how long it takes for them to complete one mask because they\u2019re also juggling the kids\u2019 school work in between sewing sessions. Tollefson, who is currently on sabbatical while writing a book, says they have set up an assembly-line and each daughter has her own specialty.<\/p>\n<p>They delivered 24 masks already and have another pile of 30 that are nearly finished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur officers love the masks,\u201d Metzger says.&nbsp;\u201cThey are more comfortable than most masks because of the tie-strings.&nbsp;They also have a built-in pocket to add in filtering material when it becomes available.&nbsp;And they are wicked cool with Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ colors and Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½PD embroidered on them.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf you look throughout the world, there are a lot of artists that are stepping in and using their skills right now to try to help in whatever way they can.\u201d \u2014 Professor Kristina Tollefson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While Metzger has requested 80 masks, Tollefson plans to keep sewing as long as masks are needed. Her desire to make an impact in the community is inspired by her late friend, Harriett Lake, who was a devoted philanthropist to Orlando\u2019s arts scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe arts sometimes are looked at as superfluous to society, but in a crisis, we step in and help heal and support the people who need it,\u201d says Tollefson, who also helped craft and organize volunteers to stitch the Angel Action Wings following the Pulse tragedy, which blocked protests at victims\u2019 funerals. \u201cIf you look throughout the world, there are a lot of artists that are stepping in and using their skills right now to try to help in whatever way they can, in practical ways \u2014 not just in making people feel good or making them think, but using our skills to help people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\u2019s resident costume designer and her family are making masks for officers stationed at the COVID-19 testing site on 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