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Crafty Tuesday Masking
Apr. 7th, 2020 10:18 amOr Day 23 of the Homebound Saga
First, I would like to wish my niece a very happy birthday. She is a sweet and very smart child. She is already proving herself quite the storyteller and works hard to keep up with her big sister. This past Christmas we got her sharpies and other drawing supplies, so she had a set of her own. My brother and his wife are doing a great job raising two great children with a thirst for knowledge.
In my area of New York, they have said masks when out in public based on the CDC recommendations. The catch-22 is that there are no masks to be had or, if they exist, they are going to the hospitals and people on the front lines of this pandemic including grocery staff who really need them.
My mother passed on a pattern that my parents found on the Internet. I tried it out yesterday using non-permeable interface (the tightly woven/pressed kind) in the middle for extra protection. They are machine washable made out of 100% cotton fabric.
The pattern I used can be found Ragmask
I had to expand it just a hair for both comfort and good fit. Make sure if you decide to do it that when you print the template take a ruler and make sure the pattern is at full-size. It was off ½ an inch when I first printed it, so I adjusted the settings and got the proper size.
(For the VI: This is me wearing a black and grey pattern patterned mask with black ties. I am wearing glasses and a Captain Marvel hat)
(for the VI: Side view of the mask)
I used armature wire for the nose but just about any flexible metal that you can wash should work.
Over the weekend I did a demo for the Virtual Heliosphere about building puppets. I wanted to show a rod puppet which I never got to because of time constraints. But the little dude needed to be finished. I made a plague doctor puppet. Caroline came up with the idea for the sign. This is what happens when I get bored.
(for the VI: This is a rod puppet dressed all in black with a plague doctor mask holding a wooden sign that says “Wash Your Hands!”)
It’s not perfect and I plan to redo a couple of parts of it to make it look better but for a throw together I think he is pretty awesome.
This week I am going to make some more masks and something I have promised Caroline I would get done by Easter.
More on that next week.
I am grateful for patterns that do what they are supposes to do.
First, I would like to wish my niece a very happy birthday. She is a sweet and very smart child. She is already proving herself quite the storyteller and works hard to keep up with her big sister. This past Christmas we got her sharpies and other drawing supplies, so she had a set of her own. My brother and his wife are doing a great job raising two great children with a thirst for knowledge.
In my area of New York, they have said masks when out in public based on the CDC recommendations. The catch-22 is that there are no masks to be had or, if they exist, they are going to the hospitals and people on the front lines of this pandemic including grocery staff who really need them.
My mother passed on a pattern that my parents found on the Internet. I tried it out yesterday using non-permeable interface (the tightly woven/pressed kind) in the middle for extra protection. They are machine washable made out of 100% cotton fabric.
The pattern I used can be found Ragmask
I had to expand it just a hair for both comfort and good fit. Make sure if you decide to do it that when you print the template take a ruler and make sure the pattern is at full-size. It was off ½ an inch when I first printed it, so I adjusted the settings and got the proper size.
(For the VI: This is me wearing a black and grey pattern patterned mask with black ties. I am wearing glasses and a Captain Marvel hat)
(for the VI: Side view of the mask)
I used armature wire for the nose but just about any flexible metal that you can wash should work.
Over the weekend I did a demo for the Virtual Heliosphere about building puppets. I wanted to show a rod puppet which I never got to because of time constraints. But the little dude needed to be finished. I made a plague doctor puppet. Caroline came up with the idea for the sign. This is what happens when I get bored.
(for the VI: This is a rod puppet dressed all in black with a plague doctor mask holding a wooden sign that says “Wash Your Hands!”)
It’s not perfect and I plan to redo a couple of parts of it to make it look better but for a throw together I think he is pretty awesome.
This week I am going to make some more masks and something I have promised Caroline I would get done by Easter.
More on that next week.
I am grateful for patterns that do what they are supposes to do.
