How To Make A face Mask With Fabric, Tools, Materials, Steps Followed And Procedure

In this period of the outbreak of Coronavirus disease, people seek to make their own face and nose mask(muffs). Here is how to make your own homemade Face Mask With Fabric:

How To Make A face Mask With Fabric

How to Sew a Face Mask Procedure 1

Tools

• Needle and thread (and a sewing machine, if you have one)
• Scissors
• Pins or clips to hold fabrics in place (safety pins and paper clips will also work in a pinch)

Materials

• At least 20 by 20 inches of 100 percent cotton fabric, such as a flat tea towel
• 4 strips of cotton fabric for ties, about 18” long and ¾” wide OR
• 4 flat, clean shoelaces OR Two flat (1/4”) sewing elastics that are 7” long each

Steps Followed And Procedure

Step 1

After choosing your piece of cotton fabric, prewash it on the warmest setting and dry it on high heat. Preferably use Tea Towels). Fold the fabric in half, measure and cut out a 9.5” by 6.5” rectangle. These measurements will create two identically sized layers. This will be your outcome.

Cut 4 thin pieces of material, about 18” long and ¾” wide. After cutting, fold each piece of fabric twice lengthwise, then once more to tuck the rough edges inside. Sew a straight line along the middle. Sewing will prevent fabric ties from having frayed edges.

Step Two

Take one among your rectangular fabric layers. Using the “right side” facing you, pin down the 4 fabric ties, one piece per corner and making sure that hat the ties are gathered in the center of the fabric layer. Either using elastic for fabric ties, attach to the first layer of fabric by securing the ends at the corners and make sure it forms little hoops and lie inside the perimeter of your fabric. Your step two outcome will look like this:

Step 3

Taking the second layer of fabric, line it up with the first. When doing that, make sure that the “right sides” (or patterned sides) of the fabric are facing each other. Not to forget, sandwich the fabric ties or elastics. Secure the fabric sandwich together with pins. Her comes to your step three outlook.

Step Four

Eyeball a midway point and sew a straight line across the mask, about ¼” above the bottom edge of the fabric, toward the bottom left-hand corner from the middle. As you sew, remove the pins, And this is your step for the outcome.

Note: The ties should be secured in the corners by your two layers of fabric.

Step Five

Stitching all around the perimeter of the fabric layers, repeating the forward and backward motion at each corner to secure all the elastic ends or fabric ties.

Note: As you stitch towards the starting point, stop to allow for a 1 ½” gap. This will be your step five outcome.

Step Six

Turning your fabric right-side out from the little 1 ½” gap, your outlook will be this:

Step Seven

Stitch around the perimeter of the mask, ¼” away from the edge of the seam. Your masks will be complete having this outcome.

How to Sew a Face Mask Procedure 2