Supplied: Liza Brooks
)As Queensland Health ramps up rules around face masks and stores sell out, home sewing teams across the state are being inundated with requests.
"When people started going a bit crazy yesterday I already had about 30 or 40 made up and they went within the first hour," amateur seamstress Liza Brooks said.
Ms Brooks, from Mackay, started sewing at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, when she and business partner Tracey Scells made and donated 450 scrub caps to a hospital in Melbourne, where her daughter worked.
Demand for masks spiked on Monday, when Queensland Health announced all people throughout the state should wear masks when indoors.
Supplied: Liza Brooks
)"It’s been crazy busy," she said.
"We had some made up from last time when there was a bit of a scare and panic.
"We [had supplies], the medical nose wires, the toggle arms so they’re adjustable, we looked into the best pattern we could find to fit faces best."
The women have been busy sewing orders, with all existing stock gone.
Up all night sewing
Laura Saville is another local sewer who said there was a huge unmet demand for handmade masks.
"[I'm] spending the rest of the day sewing current orders and have had to put a hold on any new ones coming in.
"It’s just crazy but I’m so glad people are turning to the handmade community to support to keep our locals safe."
ABC Tropical North: Melissa Maddison
)Queensland's COVID-19 outbreak has grown overnight, with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announcing 10 new cases, eight of those locally acquired.
Brisbane has entered a three-day lockdown which started Monday evening, and the lockdown will be reviewed on Wednesday night.
