Miranda’s Masks

The inside of Betty's masks is a different
pattern than the outside of her mask.

Miranda made face masks for her children to wear at school. 

The masks are a smaller version of an adult mask. 

She tailored some of them so that interesting designs appear across the jaw -- for example, Betty’s has a fox on the left side of her mask.

The bonus of the style of mask that Miranda makes is that it can hang around a child’s neck when it is not in use. 

This means her children can wear the mask in school, have the mask hang from their neck during recess, and easily return to their face when school resumes. 

This is a technique older people use with their glasses, with a cord that clips on the arms of the glasses.

The chord doesn’t always work. 

 For example, Betty found Alice’s mask over by the money bars. 

Apparently, Alice doesn’t like to wear it when swinging her way back and forth on them during recess.  There is a reason that the school asks for all masks to have a child's name on it.

Miranda gave us a pattern for these masks. Miranda also has bundles of fabric, exquisitely patterned, vividly coloured, cut to size, chosen with care for each of her loved ones. Added to this, she gave Bonnie two morning sewing lessons:

You can barely make out the face of the fox
on the right-hand side of the picture.
But so sweet in real life.

Day 1: choose fabric, cut mask, cut liner, copy pattern making adjustments

Day 2: sew darts, press, sew mask to liner, turn, press, add metal nose piece, top stich in nose piece, add cord

And then Bonnie and I returned to the lake ready to buy our own fabric and make enough masks so that she has multiple products to use at work.

Having finished three masks, I would say we are now about 30 masks behind.

Like all sewing projects, so easy to get started and so hard to take to the finish line.

Arta