Another mask design.
Oct. 1st, 2020 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynThis one's also from Made by Barb. It's somewhat harder than the last one, because she designed it to provide more forward space for the nose and mouth without putting a seam over the nose... which means that it involves curved pieces and slightly weird dimensions.
The design is trickier to manage than I'd thought. I'm not used to joining curves and I think I got several elements of the process wrong. Fortunately this is a mask and all the real 'ew, you did what?' mistakes are on the inside. The ear loops are 'thick hair no metal' elastics from Sally Beauty Supply, as I didn't feel like fiddling with knotted quarter-inch elastic and had no desire to spend time stitching loops shut by hand.
(Yes, I could theoretically sew the elastic using my sewing machine. I am still not very good at getting 1/4 inch elastic to behave under the presser foot.)
The mask fits more closely to the nose than other models I've made so far. I found instructions on how to add a pocket for a metal strip on another site; the pattern at Made by Barb mentions ironing in a strip of metal using fusible webbing, but I wanted to be able to take the metal out and throw the mask in the washer. I'll have to take a photo of the pocket side at some point. I documented the process of making this design so I'd have an idea of what to expect in future, I just don't seem to have a picture of the completed mask from the inside. The metal strip in this case is a strip of aluminum foil that was originally cut to 8 inches by 6 inches, then folded in half width-wise five times and then cut in half. I don't have flat aluminum on hand, I didn't have access to a piece of aluminum I could cut, and I didn't feel like trying to make jewelry wire behave.
The Captain Marvel material is quilting cotton. The lining is 600 thread count pillowcase fabric that I got on eBay, originally from Walmart. The extra visible seams on the mask are because I sewed two layers of polyester chiffon to the outer fabric for filtration. Probably going to go back to sewing the chiffon to the faceward side next time. That or attach one layer of the chiffon to each side, it might be easier that way.
The design is trickier to manage than I'd thought. I'm not used to joining curves and I think I got several elements of the process wrong. Fortunately this is a mask and all the real 'ew, you did what?' mistakes are on the inside. The ear loops are 'thick hair no metal' elastics from Sally Beauty Supply, as I didn't feel like fiddling with knotted quarter-inch elastic and had no desire to spend time stitching loops shut by hand.
(Yes, I could theoretically sew the elastic using my sewing machine. I am still not very good at getting 1/4 inch elastic to behave under the presser foot.)
The mask fits more closely to the nose than other models I've made so far. I found instructions on how to add a pocket for a metal strip on another site; the pattern at Made by Barb mentions ironing in a strip of metal using fusible webbing, but I wanted to be able to take the metal out and throw the mask in the washer. I'll have to take a photo of the pocket side at some point. I documented the process of making this design so I'd have an idea of what to expect in future, I just don't seem to have a picture of the completed mask from the inside. The metal strip in this case is a strip of aluminum foil that was originally cut to 8 inches by 6 inches, then folded in half width-wise five times and then cut in half. I don't have flat aluminum on hand, I didn't have access to a piece of aluminum I could cut, and I didn't feel like trying to make jewelry wire behave.
The Captain Marvel material is quilting cotton. The lining is 600 thread count pillowcase fabric that I got on eBay, originally from Walmart. The extra visible seams on the mask are because I sewed two layers of polyester chiffon to the outer fabric for filtration. Probably going to go back to sewing the chiffon to the faceward side next time. That or attach one layer of the chiffon to each side, it might be easier that way.
