I suspect that many of you, like me, have had your sewing plans revised this month. I’ve been sewing masks out of my stash of quilt fabric.

I’ve used this free online pattern.

And here are some of my masks:

I’ve made more than the ones shown. There are two in the car, so we can’t forget, and I’ve given away six or eight others. I have seven more toucan ones on my sewing table, waiting to have the pleats sewn, and more cut out.

One of the changes I’ve made is for the mister’s masks – he found the elastic so tight on the first one that he couldn’t put it on. I cut the elastic pieces an inch longer for his masks. The resulting mask is still snug to his face, so I guess it’s just further between his ears. 🙂 The three at the top left have longer elastics.

People say these are quick to make, but I’m slow at it. I suspect it’s because I don’t have many big pieces of fabric – if I did, I could do assembly line production. This way, I’m cutting most masks individually. I wanted to help with a local program to sew surgical caps for the hospital, but I’m still making masks for friends and family, and that request has been completed. I am slow! OTOH, this process lets me choose fabrics that I think the recipient will like, and makes most of the masks one-of-a-kind.

Here are some more:

The mister and I wear ours on our supply runs.

Have you been sewing fabric masks?