She discovered that baseball uniform material are good for facemasks.
Her son plays for the J Serra High School baseball team in San Juan Capistrano and she reached out to his coach to see if there were any old uniforms he would be able to donate.
Turns out coach Brett Kay had up to 80 old uniforms to spare.
Canales made about 300 masks and donated them to breast cancer patients that she works with at BreastLink, a diagnostic and treatment center based in Orange.
"Either I was gonna hoard it for years and years and years as long as I'm the J Serra head coach, or I could do a lot better with it," said Coach Kay. "And, you know, Jill's idea was obviously phenomenal."