making masks

Mask Making ~ Adding a Wired Nose Tab from Life in the Scrapatch

This is my prototype for a Mask with a Wired Nose Guard.

I designed this as I sewed and made adjustments along the way.

These are the materials I used:

Front Piece ... 6.5" by 9.5" of focus fabric

Back Piece ... 6.5" by 9.5" of antimicrobial polycotton fabric

Filter Piece ... 6.5" by 8" Mountain Mist polypropolyne fabric

Neck Piece ... 3" by 5" focus fabric

Nose Guard Piece ... 5" square focus fabric

Nose Guard Wire ... 5" plastic coated craft wire

Neck Elastic Pieces ... two 5" pieces and two 6.5" pieces

Sewing Steps:

I folded and sewed ...

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From the Heart Blog Hop ~ My Day! from Life in the Scrapatch

I am giving gifts to family and friends and others

this season that show how much I care.

Quilty Kitty Katniss is helping me.

To make my Fall Gift Masks I followed my

Free Tutorial for Masks with Neck Straps Posted Here

and I added a few new materials to my masks

to increase their protection and breathability.

These are my mask making supplies.

Here are new additions:

Antimicrobial White Poly Cotton Fabric

and

Mountain Mist Polypropylene Filter Fabric

I bought these at

Fat Quarter Shop's Mask Making Supplies

Here are the pieces for the mask shown on the ...

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Making Custom Masks with Neck Straps from Life in the Scrapatch

Custom Mask with Neck Straps

I made this rose mask for me after making some that my hubby requested.

This is the most comfortable and best fitting mask I have made and worn.

Mr Scrapatch wears hearing aids and eyeglasses

and asked me if I could make him a mask that did not fit over his ears,

because the elastics get tangled with his hearing aides and eyeglass stems.

He picked the fabrics and elastic.

This is the back of the mask

and shows the fabric square that holds the elastics to the back of his neck.

It is easy ...

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The Masked Mask Maker from Life in the Scrapatch

Still Sewing Masks

Adding wire nose pockets.

Adding an inner filter layer cut from a new vacuum cleaner liner.

The white film is the filter to go over the nose and mouth area

to hopefully add an extra bit of protection.

I am using up any usable elastic I have,

including cutting the wide elastic in half lengthwise.

I have some of the round coated elastic.

My machine does not like this much, even when using my heavy duty walking foot.

I have had frequent thread breaks and it has even bent a 90/14 ballpoint needle.

The best method ...

added by Scrapatches 4 years, 8 months ago. under making masks , the daily blog 2020 , the masked mask maker

Boy, how things have changed.. from Northern Deb Quilts

I haven't posted in a while...I just can believe how the world has changed in a bit over a month. We left Florida on schedule and got back home in time to stock up on groceries and necessities.

First it was the social distancing, then the "stay home order". Part of our family is in southeast Michigan where the virus is the worst. I think they're staying home and staying safe. Up here in the Traverse City area, it's not bad yet...maybe 9 or so cases.

When I finally sat down to sew, I started ...

added by Northern Deb 4 years, 8 months ago. under blue and white quilt , covid-19 sewing , finish along , finishing up ufos , kaffe bear paw quilt , link to homemade mask pattern with pocket , making masks , stay home sewing , two-color quilt

Gotcha Covered from From the Strawberry Patch...

Just like everyone else in world, I am sewing masks; so much has changed in the past week. A friend told me that this is the WW2 equivalent of rolling bandages for the war effort, we're all fighting a vastly different type of war this time. I stitched masks until I ran out of elastic and then took to sewing fabric ties. The pattern that I used was this one, distributed by my LQS at the request

added by Mrs. Goodneedle 4 years, 9 months ago. under covid-19 , lqs , making masks , pattern , sewing for a cause

Gotcha Covered from From the Strawberry Patch...

Just like everyone else in world, I am sewing masks; so much has changed in the past week. A friend told me that this is the WW2 equivalent of rolling bandages for the war effort, we're all fighting a vastly different type of war this time. I stitched masks until I ran out of elastic and then took to sewing fabric ties. The pattern that I used was this one, distributed by my LQS at the request

added by Mrs. Goodneedle 4 years, 9 months ago. under covid-19 , lqs , making masks , pattern , sewing for a cause

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