As mentioned yesterday, I'm using Leah Day's pattern to make simple masks. After posting that, I remembered to take a photo of some of them.
These aren't all, of course. But these are in the sewing studio at the moment.
The project went along pretty smoothly until the end of the 6 inch long twisty ties was reached. An order for chenille stems (that's the fancy word for pipe cleaners) was placed with Hobby Lobby online, which presumably will arrive before the whole mask project becomes moot.
In the meantime, the imagination got to work. A chance suggestion from DD2 about using beading wire led to cutting 12 inch pieces of blue 22-ga. wire, crimping the center around the rosary plier to make a double thickness, and then curling the loose ends into a little spiral that wouldn't poke out through the fabric. That was where matters stood at the end of the day yesterday.
During the night, the imagination must have kept working, because it occurred that really the thin paper or plastic around the wire in twisty ties is pretty much tape. So the shipping tape roll was rounded up for an experiment.
Here are some possible home-made twisty ties. They're not cute, but then they're supposed to be encased inside the cotton fabric anyway. I used shipping tape because it's less likely to do something weird in laundry than duct tape. I just laid a piece of tape a bit longer than the wire piece with the sticky side up, put two wire pieces onto the stickum, somewhat separated, and folded the other half of the tape over onto the wire bits. A little pressing and squishing, then trimmed with the scissors. (By the way, those are the paper scissors, not the fabric scissors.)
It might work. Or I might amble out to the store for a tide-me-over bag of pipe cleaners, which would be less fussy to work with. And each 12 inch pipe cleaner gives shaping wire for two masks.
Decisions, decisions.
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