HOW TO MAKE A REUSABLE MASK FOR BEGINNERS: Homemade DIY Cloth Rectangle Mask Tutorial
Channel: Artsy Marsy
Date: 22/06/2020

TRANSCRIPT BELOW. A quick and easy reusable cloth mask. My friend was going to try and reverse engineer the one I sent to them, so I decided I would just make a video and pdf tutorial for them! 

This is a modification of Homemade on our Homestead's design -- watch her video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm_NmpdgWWA

Here's a downloadable PDF version of the tutorial: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/421338601897328650/724046664192622712/Mask_Tutorial.pdf

TRANSCRIPT:
The materials you need are a rotary cutter, ruler, and cutting mat--or Scissors and a ruler. Two different cotton fabrics is often preferred but one color will work just fine. You need wire for your nose bridge, something to cut it with--these are gardening prunes--and pliers to bend the edges. At the very end, you'll need some kind of tie that's 50-60" long.

The first step is cut the fabric. We need two 10"x8" pieces. The 10s are going to be the top and bottom while the 8s are the sides.

For the next step, place the pieces right side together. Straight-stitch all around the mask with a quarter-inch seam allowance, leaving a 1" to 1 1/2" hole on the side.

Once that's sewn and you have the opening, remove excess fabric from the corners, being careful not to hit your stitching. Once all four corners are trimmed, pull the mask right-side out through the hole and turn the corners with either a corner turner or like the blunt end of a pencil.

Now that the corners are turned, we need to sew a straight stitch across the top of the mask, about 1/16" to 1/8", to form a pocket for our wire. As you can see here, I just sewed this not-so-tidy line across the top. It doesn't need to be perfect.

Take your wire and cut a piece that's like 6.5" to 7". You need to take your pliers and curl the ends of the wire so it doesn't puncture fabric and fling out or poke you in the eye. It'll look like this when you're done.

Now take the mask... take the wire and put it up through the hole and into the pocket you just made. This can take a bit of work, because it's a tight fit, so don't get frustrated. Make sure your wire is in the middle, and close up the hole. 

Now that that's closed up with a simple straight stitch, fold in the sides 1/2" to 3/4" and crease. You can use your iron here, but I'm a little gremlin and I don't. Fold in these corners to your crease, and make sure your wire stays out of the way when you take it to your sewing machine. If you want, pin these corners in place. 

Here's a shot of it on my sewing machine, and you can see I just use the foot to hold the first corner and I manually hold the bottom corner. Make sure that you go over these edges a couple of times to keep them from coming up. The next step is to just add the tie through here.

With the tie, ensure that the ends come out through the top, which is where you'll tie it around the back of your head. At the bottom, it'll loop around the back of your neck. Homemade on our Homestead has a fitting guide that will work for this perfectly.

And that's it! You're all done! If this video helped you, like, comment, and subscribe!