With the new regulations coming in I had family asking if I wouldn't mind making a few so I took the opportunity to make more for this household too, and some to spare for the times when I get asked if I might sew one up quickly for people.
There are 24 in the pic and a further 3 already flew their way into my teenagers wardrobe. I hope that this will be my last large batch now. I expect to be making a few here and there as they get worn out but that's OK. Back at the start of the pandemic I was making masks to my own design (I still have my drawings where I was working everything out) but now there are lots of easy to use patterns and ideas rolling around on the internet. I like the shaped ones at Big Community Sew now, the pattern is straight foward and encourages the use of things that you already have to hand. I use 2 layers of quilting cotton that I pre-wash at 60 degrees and I make the ear loops out of 5mm flat elastic. I do add a wire because we all wear glasses, I use a zigzag stitch to attach a long garden twist wire onto the top seam allowance and that works really well. No huffed up lenses in my house!
I do find that the child sized mask comes up really small though, my 8 year old prefers to wear a non-wired adult sized one.
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