Plague Masks v2

I made a couple more masks. It is a slow process as I am sewing them by hand and I am not an expert at it. I have been giving them away, but the next ones will be for me. I have heard that I need at least three, as it takes at least three days in a bag for them to become clear of the virus (hopefully on the outside). Following the instructions from the last post, the ones I am making are two sided. I had some new supplies from Amazon and some old scarves from Veronica to use as material. 

Mask #2 below went to my son. We all decided that the design on the right should not be worn in public.

Mask #3 is best so far. I made it a little smaller than the others. More attractive model as well. 

   

Plague Season Updates

My father was going to move down to a retirement home in the Vancouver area. He had a place lined up in Burnaby and we had worked with his step-children to clean out his condominium to get ready for the sale. It was on the market for two days before the Plague Season shutdowns began here in British Columbia. I have visited my father in Kamloops a couple of times since then. On my way down last time, I saw this group meeting in the Chilliwack Mall parking lot. Nice way to get together with your buddies!

Like many places, it looks like we will gradually start opening up soon. There will be some limits on what we can do and there is the possibility that masks may be mandatory for some activities. I found it absurd in the early days of the virus when the official advice was to wear masks and use hand sanitizer: these were things that were sold out almost immediately (and should have been saved for front line workers in any case). We have some fabric masks on order through a local charity, but I also looked online for mask patterns and came up with the following:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR5yb4sFDTo

I made a first mask with this pattern with material from an old handkerchief and an old T shirt. I didn't have any elastic fabric so I substituted ribbon loops to which I attached pieces of rubber band. It works, but slow going as I don't have a sewing machine so have to do the stitching by hand. I may make one more, avoiding the mistakes I made with this one, and adding some embroidery designs.