isabellea
Combining beach and Disney!
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2014
One of the pieces of fabric I bought was only $4m so that was for the trial and error masks. I made 6 of them yesterday and didn't even use half the fabric. So I made two of the pleated ones that you iron the 2 pleats right across. That was super easy and probably only took me 30 minutes.....the first one was a bit fiddley. I found that the measurements were too large so I made another one slightly smaller. I also made one adding in a wire at the nose. Then I searched a little more on Youtube and found another pleated style that was much more fitted. You don't iron the pleats on the sides...you gather the sides into 3 smaller pleats, pin them and then also add a tiny pleat under the chin. This one fit much better so I made another one adding in the wire and shortening the ear elastics. This seems to be the winner with at my house...I just need to find the perfect length for the elastic. I will send my samples over to my mom to try to see which style and size she prefers. I will have to make my moms with two different fabrics because she will never remember which side is the outside.
One thing I'm a little worried about is that I used a pipe cleaner for the nose wire......it might rust??? I also have some floral wire that I could try not sure if that would be better.
My colleague made me a mask and she sew a rectangular piece of fabric inside the mask to insert the pipe cleaner so one side is opened to insert it. I folded the tips of the pipe cleaner then inserted it into that piece of fabric and can remove it when I wash it.