Masks

I started making masks quite soon in the pandemic.  I gave them to friends and neighbours and hoped we would not have to use them.  I lost count but it is well cover 50 and still going.

Pride masks for my favourite guys.

I then joined the Ribble Valley Scrub Hub created by Fiona Belcham of Patches and Buttons Haberdashers in Clitheroe.  She and her husband and friends and volunteers organised a network of sewers to make masks, bags, scrubs, etc for care providers.  More of which later.

These were the first masks I made as part of the scrub hub.  Flowery cotton one side.

Flowery flannel on the other side to catch the bugs.

First 18.  My test for initiation into the Scrubbers.

I made more for friends and used up large parts of my stash of fabric in the process.

Elastic was the holy grail and soon became in short supply.

Then we all started to actually wear them and we realised that the flat rectangles were OK unless you wore glasses.

The internet provided the answer with the Dinner Plate Mask design.

For musical friends.

Using thin elastic, which does not hurt your ears and inserting wire above the nose helped enormously with the comfort of the masks.

More designs are available now, which will be tried in time.