Put your knickers on your head
As enthusiasm for face masks seems to be growing I've been setting my not inconsiderable mind to the problem. Nuora is making proper ones with several linings and stuff but it's better that she offers those to people near the frontline. Daughter offered to make me one and I told her I'd seen an easy non-sew face mask demonstrated on facebook.
By now this had turned into a full-blown family discussion on whatsapp so when Husband then suggested that pants would be better I came up with this design:
Simply slice the gusset and hey presto you have a mask. Then I realised your head size would have to be the same as your waist but Elder Son resolved that saying, 'Use a clothes peg to clip it in place.'
But he also thought an even simpler way of doing it was like this:
For this you would need high waist, high legs pants but you don't even have to cut anything.
I don't go out, except to walk George, so I think any of these ideas would be fine for me. And the pants one especially would have the added benefit of making people keep away from me. As well as being a spare pair just in case. (Obviously that would only work with the uncut gusset.)
I didn't patent my social distancer and now everyone is doing it so perhaps I'd better get my patent application in now.
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I plan to make a mask today. Hmmm - Elder Son's design gave me pause but no, all mine are microfiber - pretty sure that won't work. Back to the sewing machine.
I think your son's design is a winner!
With tremors and painful hands, I'm not likely to make many more masks (I've only made 14, so far); but, I'm tempted to make a few more masks for family, incorporating (in addition to two layers of cotton cloth) an inner layer of silk fabric which I understand can be effective through electrostatic attraction to aerosols. I have a couple of old, silk dresses from the 1950s and 1960s (my own wedding dress and a dress that I wore to a s-i-l's wedding) that I plan to "sacrifice" to the cause - maybe starting with the latter dress.
I've been wearing a mask, when shopping for groceries, since early/mid March. Many places (non-grocery, in my case) are willing for me to call with an order, charging the purchase to my credit card, then letting me park outside their establishment with my trunk lid up. They place my order in the trunk, I close the trunk from within the car, and come home - letting the order sit in the trunk (with lid up) for several days to give any virus time to disassemble. I find that system works very well for me. Just now I have a 20# bag of shelled peanuts (to feed the birds) that I purchased, today, and non-perishable groceries that I purchased, yesterday, aging out in my trunk.
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