Oregon woman buys winning lottery ticket with cash from sewing face masks

She’s a lucky sew-and-sew!

An Oregon woman won a $126,784 jackpot in the lottery — after buying the winning ticket with the money she made sewing coronavirus face masks.

“I don’t play a lot,” said winner Lorna Hewitt, who bought her winning Keno-8 ticket at a grocery store in the town of Sisters.

“But I thought — I was doing something to help. Maybe I would win,” she said in a press release from the Oregon Lottery.

Hewett, who was laid off from a restaurant job due to the pandemic, found part-time work at a local grocery store. It was there she decided to earn a bit of extra pocket money by sewing face masks for her coworkers.

“I was making the masks with fabric I already had,” she said.

She claimed her prize money on Thursday — and her first stop after the Oregon Lottery offices was the Joann Fabrics store, so she could continue to help people.

“My masks are popular,” she explained. “And I want to keep making them.”