What You’ll Need:
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A sewing machine
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Thread (color of your choice)
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Hair bands
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100% cotton, cute fabric (a quarter of a yard long = 3 masks)
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Pins
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Scissors
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Fabric Chalk
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Tape measure
Get Sewing, Girl:
1. Stretch out your bands using a round bottle.
2. Wash and dry your fabric.
3. Iron your fabric (ABSOLUTE MUST).
4. Cut the fabric into the desired amount of 12 x 6 squares.
5. In order to make clean seam for the sides of your mask, you have to turn over the uneven edges and iron them down, about 1/8 of an inch.
6. Then for the long side of the mask, you must flip the long edge you just ironed over another ½ inch to create the edging of your mask and secure it with pins.
7. Now you’re ready to sew.
8. Sew along the long edges that you have created, don’t forget to remove the pins as you progress. Don’t sew the short edges just yet; you’ll use those later to create the part that goes around your ears.
9. To create the part that goes around your ears, you must first take your hair tie and create a pocket. To do this, you have to set half of the hair tie down on the fabric and fold the short edge of your fabric over that half of your hair tie. Secure it with pins.
10. Sew on the inner edge of the hair band but be sure not to sew into the hair band, just along the edge.
11. Repeat Steps 9 and 10 on the other side.
12. Presto! Your mask is complete!
Note: for a man, we lengthened it to a 14×6 mask.