The last couple of weeks have been a lot of evening conference calls and webinars so I haven’t gotten much else done. However, after wearing paper disposable masks and one of my husband’s fabric ones I’d made him all weekend because the few I’ve made myself are in the wash, I decided it was time to make myself more masks. Frankly, I also wanted to spend some time to make myself real masks that I wouldn’t mind wearing for several hours. All of my masks were basically tests on variations on patterns so none of them fit me quite right or were particularly comfortable to wear.
So, yes, I took about an hour this afternoon carefully paying attention to the instructions from the AccuQuilt website (as that’s the die I’m using), trying it on, and then making some adjustments to make it fit better. I had to take tucks in the elastic as it was a little too long, and then I took a couple of tucks in the side. The top is still a little big, which would be fixed if I were able to put a nose wire in there. I haven’t been able to make that work right yet, in the few I tried doing it in.
The downloadable instructions aren’t the same as their video tutorial (different seam allowances and so forth), so there is a lot of trial and error in using the cut pieces from the die. I’m not overly thrilled with AccuQuilt in that regard.
My husband and I have a vacation coming up so I need to make myself a few masks that I could be comfortable in for hours at a time. Guess I know what I’ll be working on this week….