Tag: face mask

Back­ground: In this time where wear­ing masks is high­ly rec­om­mend­ed (and for good rea­son) in pub­lic, it’s not only hard to find good masks but find­ing ones that fit well is even hard­er. As some­one who (when I was work­ing) wore masks every work day for 10 years now, I’m well acquaint­ed with the intri­ca­cies of breath­ing, wear­ing, glass­es fog­ging, fit and feel of med­ical grade masks. I scoured the inter­net ear­ly on look­ing for good direc­tions on an ide­al face­mask and came across a great resource. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, it was every woman for her­self when it came down to sewing mate­ri­als so find­ing them was and is still dif­fi­cult. It’s a good thing we like to hoard items. From mate­ri­als either at home or scrounged from the left­overs in the stores, on top of adjust­ing the guide direc­tions to bet­ter fit our faces (all instruc­tions online are for the gen­er­al, aver­age built per­son and my nose is not big), we end­ed up cre­at­ing our own prod­ucts. I am still SUCH a sewing n00B.

What: (1) pleat­ed mask, (1) fit­ted mask

Fitted mask