Sunday, April 26, 2020

I know a lot of quilters have been making masks. I didn’t jump on the bandwagon as the masks prevent you from spreading the virus but don’t necessarily protect you from the virus. However, if everyone you are around wears a mask it should help and it won’t do any harm.

I continued to read the posts (and there were a lot) about making masks. Batiks apparently are the best fabric because they are a very close weave. The masks can be attached to your face using either an elastic around your ears or tied behind your head. I watched some tutorials but I still didn’t think I would make any for us.

But the latest word is that masks are recommended in a few situations. Passengers on the inland ferries are being told to mask up (that doesn’t apply to any of our ferries apparently). Transit passengers are also being encouraged to wear a mask.

Since Christy is travelling to and from work on the bus and train I asked if she would like me to make her some masks. She said yes so I looked at a few more tutorials and decided on one that I thought would be easy enough for me to manage. The masks are single use (meaning they need to be washed after a single wearing) so for five days a week, one for leaving and one for coming home, I figured I’d need ten.

Six are now finished and I’ll carry on for the rest of the afternoon. I’m running out of elastic so the final few may have to have ties. They don’t take long to make but they take me more than the ten minutes promised in the tutorial.