Tag: Face mask

All the Blue

I mad some blue things to cover my face and to snuggle with.

I don’t like doing laundry, I do like finding cute images on the internet and I still had a length of blue fabric left.. So I made more facemasks, assembly style, on the Pfaff 130-6. After finishing the drawings and ironing those, I sewed up the facemasks. Afterwards, some elastic was added too, but I took the picture before completing that last step.

This time I made twelve facemasks, all in the same blue as last time. Why change a winning combination?! The image sources are available in the description.

Dragon; Penguin & Bear; Cow; Mouse; Giraffe; Heffalump; Panda; Piggie; Tigger; Penguin; Eeyore; Catpuccino

I also found some very soft blue flannel and made some more poppies. They are identical apart from the stitching around the head. It’s a little wider with one of the two. I made a pattern for the little hands and feet this time (basically just cut out a quarter circle from a piece of paper). I’ve saved that piece of paper in my pattern stash.

Poppy x 2

These two things are not the only blue things I’ve been making in the past few months, but they deserve their own posts so you’ll see those soon. *Must find the motivation to write!

Overenthusiastic Masks

Since I still had blue fabric left, I decided to make a few masks.

Sadly, I got carried away, and I now have 17 more masks for my one-person-household. They do all have wonderful images on them, which is the reason there are so many. I got trapped in a cute images hole on Pinterest and just wanted them all. Since I had the capability, I made them all.

From left to right and top to bottom: Up, Meow, Fish, Sheep, Not Today Cat, Cactus, Bear & Hedgehog, Combined Snow Globe, Rabbit, Triceratops, Free the Bird, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, Tea Rex, Sleepy Panda, Pterodactyl, Plesiosaur

They are effectively the same as the six I made previously, the only difference being that I eliminated the middle layer. Sewing the chin seam 35 times was enough – I accidentally made a lining to many, which is why there are 35 chin seams. I enjoyed locating my other fabric markers and playing around with them. The plesiosaur and the little triceratops are my favourites. Although Not Today Cat is a mood that happens a lot. I don’t think I’ll ever dare to wear the meow one, but the font was so funny that I had to use it too.

The pattern I used comes in different sizes, I made the size S for me. However, I’m unsure if people around me have the right amount of face if I ever wanted to gift one (or more) of these. As of today, they are mandatory in public transport in the Netherlands – not in everyday life though. But I’m sure I’ve got enough to see me through plenty a rail-journey.

Blue Masks – Two Ways

With the whole virus situation, the Dutch government has announced that people need to wear masks in public transport from June 1st onward. Since public transport is my only transport for distances greater than 10 km, I knew what I had to do.

So I got a cotton bed sheet, and cut out a few masks. The first iteration had a center seam and is a pattern from Burda. It’s quite quick and easy, the main problem is attaching the elastic and the main benefit is that it has a pocket for an additional filter.

Yesterday, I decided to put another pattern to use, promoted by Male Pattern Boldness. The ‘Free Face Mask Pattern and Tutorial’ by Dhurata Davies. Benefits of this is that it has three layers and that the bottom and top strap are one long one so its easier to adjust.

I also decided to add some fun images to these ones. If I need to wash them after use, I need to make sure that I know which one I actually used. So I looked over my pinterest boards and chose some images, I’ve listed the pins below. I printed those, traced them on my window and then traced these traces onto the fabric. I don’t know how the fabric marker will hold up, but at least I tried, right?

From left to right and top to bottom. Fox, Paper Plane, Plesiosaur, Cactus, Waves & Boat, Mouse with Mushroom

I do not enjoy wearing masks, but I guess I’m going to have to suck it up and do it.