I never thought I would ever make a mask, I mean it never entered into my vocabulary. A mask? Only heath care professionals wore masks, right? Fast forward to a global pandemic. I would be working from home and being asked to use my simple sewing skills to make masks. I started with a very simple pattern that I read about on the internet. I decided that not only was it not very cute but it just didn't work for me. I next turned to my favorite crafting machine, my Cricut. Cricut was offering a free pattern so I cut out the pattern and went to work. The mask was a more fitted piece that was made from 4 pieces of fabric. I did ties on most of my masks because I wanted the customization that ties could give you. I only made elastic ones (because elastic is so hard to find for one reason, the other because I heard it wasn't very comfortable) because my daughter needed elastic ones in order to go back to work and after her being out of work for 2 months I was going to do whatever I could to help her get back to work.
My son had to wear a mask to his high school graduation, which seemed a bit odd, but the graduation ended up being very special and unique. Now he wears the graduation mask to church.
All in all, I made about 75 masks. I didn't sell them, but I did take money, fabric, and thread donations so I could keep making masks and get them to people that needed free masks. I donated some to the homeless, some to a nursing home, and many to friends. Some gave me cash to buy more fabric ($1-2 per mask depending on how much I paid for the fabric), some food, some fabric, and others thread.
I only have some bunny fabric left as of 6/12/20 so if I have to make you a mask you will wear bunny fabric or you will get me some fabric. :)
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