Watch the way to make a cloth mask your own way. Use this under description mask pattern and video tutorial to form homemade masks for yourself, your family and friends, or to donate.
THE FACE MASK CRISIS
As you know, we have a disastrous shortage of face masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) in Australia and Europe.
Because of the shortage, we have all been told NOT to purchase face masks and that face masks would NOT help prevent the spreads of germs.
But the head of the Chinese Disease Control and Prevention has said: “The big mistake in the USA and Europe country, in my opinion, is that people aren’t wearing masks.”
“This virus is transmitted by droplets and close contact,” he said. “Droplets play a very important role – you’ve got to wear a mask because when you speak and any people meet, there are always droplets coming out of your mouth…
Many people have asymptomatic or presymptomatic infections, if they are wearing face masks, it can prevent droplets that carry the virus from escaping and infecting others.”
MAKERS MAKING MASKS
Have you heard the news? Crafters all over the world are grabbing their cotton stashes and parking themselves in front of their sewing machines in a global effort to help protect one another.
While hospitals scramble to secure the personal protective equipment (PPE) they need for their healthcare workers, governments warn the public not to purchase the valuable N95 masks that doctors and nurses require.
Companies are working day and night to manufacture more medical supplies for our front line workers, but the needs are urgent and vast.
In addition to healthcare workers, there are many other essential workers, such as grocery store employees, who are putting themselves at risk every day and could benefit from the protection of a face mask.
So those of us with sewing machines have answered the call to make fabric masks that can help protect not only our friends and family but also to donate to hospitals and essential businesses who must keep working despite the risks and the mask shortage.
My friend is a social worker in a local hospital and they simply don’t have enough N95 masks for everyone to wear them, all the time. The masks must be rationed and reserved for the medical staff who are in direct contact with COVID-19 patients.
When I asked her if she wanted me to make her some masks, she was thrilled.
Yes, they are only fabric masks and not N95 masks. But studies have shown, that any mask is better than no mask!
HOW TO MAKE A CLOTH FACE MASK
DIY FACE MASK SUPPLIES
- Woven Cotton Fabric 8×8″- for front
- Woven Cotton Fabric 8×8″- for back
- Interfacing 8×8”- optional for added filtration
- Woven Cotton Fabric 2×4½” x 2
- 1/4” Bias Strips 30” x 2
- Pipe cleaners or wire x 2
- Thread
- Scissors
NOTES ABOUT MAKING FACE MASKS
For these masks, we used non-woven, sew-in, lightweight interfacing. This does not guarantee filtration, it is just an option that we tried. This mask is NOT a replacement for N95. You do not need to add this layer. You can make a mask with just the two layers of woven cotton.
For a CHILD LARGE SIZE for kids approximately five to ten years old, use fabric squares that are 7×7 inches.
For a CHILD SMALL SIZE for kids under five, use fabric squares that are 6×6 inches. (The small mask featured in this post was made with a 6×6 inch pattern.)
You can use bias strips for the mask ties or 1/4” or 1/8” elastic forties that either go around the ears or around the head/neck. Right now elastic is sold out in many stores due to the current demand. So, use anything that will work. Make your own strips, use cording, shoelaces, or whatever works for you.
Instead of pipe cleaners, you can use twist ties, crafting wire, garden wire, floral wire, etc.
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