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Tag: Stitch Project: Peace Pin Project Shawl
And in other news (a second post)
Yesterday I was in a funk, feeling I had gotten nothing done. Until Don reminded me I did manage to do a few things.
For instance, there are several new additions to the usual keys in the entryway: printouts of our health proxies and other legal documents, along with a stash of face masks …
I confess, after trying any number of face mask patterns, I finally threw out the “recipes” and came up with my own way of doing things.
Starting with an 8″ x 20.5″ rectangle of cloth, I pressed in the long edges 1/2″ and then pressed in the near edge 1″ …
The 6″ far-end (the one with the raw edge) was folded over the 7 1/2″ middle …
followed by the 6″ near end (the one with the folded edge) …
all stitched together into a simple rectangle, leaving the folded-edge open to form a pocket for inserting a liner in the back …
Here’s the front view, finished size 7″ high by 7.5″ wide. Note the side pockets have no bulk and no pleats (thank goodness) …
I threaded some simple cloth ribbon ties through the side pockets and then gathered each side …
The ties (which could also be made with bias binding, strips of scrap cloth, or even elastic) are easily adjustable to fit the mask around nose, cheeks and chin with a minimum of gapping.
Don’s mask fit best at 8″ high by 8.5″ wide, so I simply scaled up the dimensions by starting with a 9″ x 23.5″ rectangle of cloth.
Moving on, I took heart from Saskia’s recent post, gathered up leftover cloth bits from the Peace Pin Project, and strung them together into a Peace Flag banner for the bush in front of our house …
Thanks Saskia …
“all of this makes me so happy …”
and maybe just a little more productive than I thought.
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