Make Your Own Mask!
Wearing a mask is good for two reasons: It’s going to cut down 95 percent of the breathing that sends the virus up to 6 feet away in a room, and also will transmission by preventing the virus from getting into your nose or mouth if you touch a contaminated surface and then your face
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Step 1: Make sure you have the correct tools.
- Tight woven cotton fabric
- Elastic
- Sewing Machine, Scissors & Thread
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Step 2: Print out patter and lay flat on fabric.
After pinning your patten down cut around the pattern, noting where
the alignment marks are.
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Step 3: Pin the fabric together with the side of
the fabric you want to show on the outside on the inside (if you
have a pattern). When you are pinning the fabric together pin the
elastic in between the sheets so the raw edges are on the outside
and the elastic is in between the fabric.
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Step 4: Sew around the edges of the fabric leaving
a small opening.
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Step 5: Turn mask right-side out and hand stitch
the small opening together.
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Step 6: make 3 pleats across the length of the
mask; pin in place. Fix the pleats by stitching across the end of
the mask.
- Tight woven cotton fabric
- Elastic
- Sewing Machine, Scissors & Thread