Title: No Sew Mask
Masks for:: Me
Pattern Link: No Sew Mask
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Most no-sew masks I’ve seen are super bulky and weird but that pattern looks terrific @lindyv321. Did you opt for woven fabric cut on the bias?
I tweaked fitted mask pattern to simplify it a whole lot. I have been unhappy with the bulky seams etc on a lot of examples. This one could use a bit of fine tuning at the edges but I hope beta testers will give it a go and share their feedback.
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Title: Fitted face masks
Masks for: Me!
Pattern Link to Share: https://www.twistedneedletextiles.com/a/downloads/-/f54ab4922d6eff0c/ff04e9a768b3f6a1
I made these for myself. I did add a pleat on the sides because I liked the fit better that way.
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Hey @Abbeeroad, sorry for the delay. I missed this message before. I’ve made myself 3 masks so far, one elastic, one bias tape, and 1 tee shirt yarn, and the tee shirt yarn is by far the most comfortable. For mine I’ve been using the same amount on each corner as was called for in the pattern for bias tape; 14". I cut my lengths, then tie a knot at the end that will be outside the mask, then sew the other end into the masks. It does have a gentle stretch, but not as much as you might think. When you cut it, you stretch the cut fabric, so the edges curl up, making it rounder. That takes out some of the natural stretch.
My tee shirt yarn itself is just recycled tees from my wardrobe, and I have ball after ball of it, so I didn’t worry about testing with some of it. There’s a ton of tutorials for making it on Youtube. I just followed one of those. If you wanted to keep using your same pattern, I’d just cut longer pieces than you normally would and test drive it. Or, run some string through, make sure you know how much you need, then cut a few inches longer. Run it through, tie it around your head, then trim if need be.
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Title: map and floral #1
Masks for: my elderly immune-compromised couple-friends.
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I’m gonna drop these off for them tomorrow! I miss my little buddy, Ollie. (I walk their dog for them.) Sometimes Margot sends pics of Ollie to me the past month here and she sent a pic showing she’s wearing a no-sew CDC-style bandana mask when she went on a walk with him. She is pretty immune-compromised and she needs to be very careful so I thought it would be much easier and better if she and Bob had some actual masks. I love those two (and Ollie) so much and I miss them so bad! I see them more than my own parents! Lol. Now I’m crying.
I decided the map was more masculine? And the floral looks like Margot’s style… they’re not perfect but they are fine for use. My machine kept having issues… lol then I realized I just needed a new needle so I went over the lines again since I hot REALLY sick of making these again. This might be the end of me making this stuff… lol
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Title: Map and floral#2
Masks for: my husband and elderly single neighbor
Pattern Link to Share: https://www.ambertheblog.com/easy-diy-facemask-with-filter-pocket/
These masks look the same as the last ones but if you look at the pattern of the fabric and the elastic you can see they’re different. Same pattern, though. Kenny originally chose the map so I figured the other one should be a map too. I saw when looking through articles that flannel is EXTRA good for filtering so I put flannel on the inside. These all have filter pockets too. I ran outa flat elastic by the end so I used round elastic.
Oh here’s proof that there’s 4
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Title: Knitter Mask
Masks for: my friend
Pattern Link to Share: from Sweet Red Poppy
My friend works at a drug rehab centre and, where we live, they have to follow the same guidelines as nursing homes so she has to wear a mask every shift. They provided paper ones but they were massive for her so I offered to make some and this is the first. She’s a small lady and it took some research and playing to find a good fit. She’s a knitter and I had some leftover fabric from a bag I sewed her last year. She loves it and said it’s comfortable.
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Title: Blue Batik & Teal Honeycomb Masks
Masks for: BIL J. & SIL J.
BIL J. asked if I could make the entire mask look like a baseball with red stitching or if I had baseball fabric. Nope. Sorry. It’s a pandemic friend, you need to put up with what scrap fabric Jennie has on hand! SIL was much easier to appease. 
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Title: Black & Red Celtic Knot Masks
Masks for: BIL C.
Pair of black & red celtic knot masks for my BIL C. to wear to work. He ALSO asked for baseball fabric, and again I had to say no.
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Title: Hannah Montana Masks
Masks for: BIL C’s Co-Worker
Pair of Black & Purple Hannah Montana masks for BIL’s co-worker to wear to work. C. was asking for solid & masculine fabrics to wear to work. I said I was running out of masculine fabrics, and he’d have to be happy with whatever I made, but promised to not use the leftover Hannah Montana fabric I had, from when I made his daughter a pencil roll about 8 years ago now. His daughter (now 17) thought that was hilarious, and told me she still has the pencil roll. So I used it on masks for a co-worker of his.
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Title: Green Medallions & Magenta Honeycombs
Masks for: Clinic Worker & Friend
Made a pair of green masks for a woman in town who works at a clinic, but isn’t a doctor or nurse, and therefore isn’t being given masks right now. The magenta honeycomb is for a dear friend. She’s staying with her grandfather, and can’t get to her sewing machine or fabric right now.
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Those are fun. I like the bottom one especially.
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Whew, I am still such a beginner sewer that this was pretty intimidating for me, but Mom and I worked together to try this awesome mask pattern, and I’m so happy with how it turned out! Woo! We’ll be making lots more of these for friends and family.
Title: Masks for my brother
Masks for: my brother 
We’re mailing these to him tomorrow!
Pattern Link to Share:
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Love that Mario fabric!!!
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Title: First masks
Masks for: Me and my honey…that’s me modeling them all. The second mask (navy pattern) was custom modified to my sweeties demands, ummm, requests.
Pattern Link to Share: The pattern has been shared before on this thread, I just don’t remember which one. Sorry.
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Title: Donations
Masks for: Local Detention center - 20 masks
Pattern Link to Share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgHrnS6n4iA&feature=youtu.be
A friend who is a visiting nurse requested these for a detention center she visits. The clinical staff was getting one disposable mask a day and the rest of the staff were getting 1 per week. Yikes! so I made up a bunch with elastic and with ties. They were so grateful. I had some with super heroes and those were popular. 
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Title: More Donations
Masks for: Local Healthcare system - 80 masks and counting
Pattern Link to Share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgHrnS6n4iA&feature=youtu.be
Just a sample. I’ve used ties, bias tape, homemade bias tape, elastic, and ribbon. But I just got an order of elastic and twill tape, so I can continue. We have someone pick up any donated masks every Sunday at our church from a bin outside. She says she is swarmed everytime word gets around that there are more masks. Again, it’s the non-clinical staff, IT repair folks, janitors, receptionists, etc. etc. that just are not getting enough masks. And it saves masks for the clinical staff. And they are washable. I always use non woven interfacing with two layers of cotton. My stash is shrinking…amazingly it doesn’t look that much smaller.
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Title: Mask Folding Template
Masks for: Friends and family - a dozen or more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgHrnS6n4iA&feature=youtu.be
I’ve also made masks for friends and family that ask for them, and donated fabric and elastic to others. Others have donated elastic to me when I ran out and my order was stalled.
And I don’t make a filter pocket. It often goes unnoticed and most people quit bothering to put a filter in. I can make them if someone requests a filter pocket, it’s just a minor modification.
Some modifications I’ve made:
- I use floral wire, 6" with 1/2 inch bends at the end, final length is about 5" I make a bunch and keep in a little box.
- I also only do two folds. They are a bit bigger and much easier to do on the nice tightly woven fabric. Same result, pulled out, the mask is still the same size.
- Depending on supplies, I either sew the elastic in as in the video, leave the sides unfinished and then use a 32-36" piece of bias tape as ties and closure to seal off the folded mask sides.
- Add a channel for ribbon or bias tape or whatever to thread through for ties
- When using threaded ties, this little tool has been my friend, a locker hook. The eyelet is large enough and the whole thing is long enough to make threading ties very fast and easy. Mine is about 6 " long.
- Best idea ever! Created a folding template. Hold over the front, add the smaller one in the back and fold. I clip one end of the mask with fabric clips and stitch the other end, doing a continuous chain stitched batch. Then turn around and do the clipped end. This has sped things up amazingly.
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Link to template tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRtiyPhWDQM
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THANK YOU for posting that video link! I knew there had to be a way to make the pleats quicker and I even looked online today but couldn’t find anything,
I’ve been hired to help a small business make masks for sale and I’m already tired of measuring and folding and I’ve only done 29. Tomorrow I’ll get my hubby to help me create one for my two pleats.
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@Abbeeroad - I’m not trying to be silly or anything, and I don’t know how to machine sew but I have an idea…how is the wire in underwire bras put in so it doesn’t poke thru? Maybe that would help?
lol…I have no idea how they do that. I’m sure if I had covered the wire or at least bent the ends up, it wouldn’t have poked through. Rookie mistake.
BUT! I am trying out the coffee ties some time this week (maybe tonight!). I really think they will work well!
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