I had to go grocery shopping and wanted a covering for my old N95 mask.
I have been wearing masks for years when I work on anything from insulating my cabin with fiberglass…
…to tearing down an old cabin filled with black mold. I am very used to using masks and I have several that I re-use. I attend professional training regularly on the proper use of PPE. One of my N95 masks is tan colored from the sand in Arizona, where the sand holds a fungi that can cause a condition called “Mohave Valley Fever”, a miserable respiratory infection that I don’t want.
But an N95 mask is rather a scary looking thing and I wanted some bling to cover it. So, I dumped out my shimmery fabrics, sorted them by color and found a nice band of bangles I’ve always wanted to use.
This mask is one thin layer of Lamé (Wiki on Lamé) with top and bottom hem, no nose-piece and rolled-hem channels on the sides for ribbon. Lamé fabric is so loosely woven that it would never make a good mask, but it sure makes a fun cover-up. The gold ‘coins’ are Wrights Twill with Coin Trim. I’m pretty sure I’ll be making more of these. This one started as 10″ wide by 8 and 1/4″ top-to-bottom but there was still some mask showing. I’ll cut the next one to 10″ x 9″ or maybe even 9 and a half inches.