This is Mary from jo-ann's craft team here to
show you how you can make this mask if
you're looking for a way to help your
community while you're at home to make
your mask you will need cotton fabric
lightweight fusible interfacing quarter
inch knit elastic a pencil scissors
ruler and piece of paper to make your
pattern and of course basic sewing
supplies like a sewing machine thread
and pin okay to make my pattern I'm
going to start by marking nine inches
along the bottom of my paper
from that nine inches I'm going to go
ahead and measure up six
and then I'm going to go ahead and mark
this bottom 9-inch
edge as being cut on the fold
if you're making these mess out of
scraps of fabric and your fabric is less
than twelve by nine inches you are going
to want to go ahead and add an extra
quarter of an inch along this length
here so that you can cut out of two
pieces of fabric now I'm going to go
ahead I'm going to use a quarter inch
seam allowance so I'm going to mark that
as well and this is going to help me
mark where my pleats need to be so
there's my quarter of an inch seam
allowance along that side and now it's
time to start marking my pleats so I'm
going to take my ruler and I'm going to
line the eighth of an inch line up with
my quarter inch seam allowance line and
this is going to give me the most evenly
spaced pleats in the easiest way
possible so now I'm going to go ahead
and mark the center points of my pleat
so this is the point that is folded
outward so I'm going to mark at one and
a half inches then again at three inches
and again at four and a half inches
these are going to be 1/2 inch pleats
some also going to go ahead and mark
with a dashed line where the rest of the
fabric for my pleat is going to take up
so I'm going to mark out 1-inch and
again at two inches two and a half three
and a half four and five then I'm going
to go ahead over to the opposite side of
my mask and Mark those same points along
this edge working from this seam
allowance edge down so that my pleats
match on both sides okay now that I have
my finished pattern it's time to cut out
my fabric so I'm going to go ahead and
place this pattern on the fold of my
fabric and go ahead and cut out one
I'll also need to go ahead and cut out
the same piece out of my interfacing so
now I have my interfacing applied to the
wrong side of my cotton fabric and I've
got ahead and folded it right sides
together in half this way so that I have
a 9-inch edge here and six inch edge
here before I start sewing I'm also
going to need to cut two pieces of
elastic seven inches long each
I'm gonna go ahead and pin my project
I'm a so along this edge first and I'm
going to want to leave a section about
two and a half three inches long that is
not sewn so I'm going to mark those
first and I like to put two pins
together just as a reminder that I'm
supposed to do something different there
okay let's go take this and sew it okay
now that I have my edge sewn here with
my open space in the center to turn it
right-side out I'm going to go ahead and
place my elastic in so place it in each
end and tuck in the corner but just a
little bit poking out there and you can
go ahead and pin this into place and
then go ahead make sure your elastic
isn't twisted and repeat in this top
corner
and then again on the other side
okay so now that my elastic is pinned
into place I can go ahead and sew across
both sides and I'll want to make sure
that I'm back stitching really well
across this elastic so it's secured in
there okay both ends are securely sewn
with my elastic caught inside so now I
can go ahead and turn this right side up
now I'm gonna go ahead and take this
over to my ironing board give it a good
press and tuck in the seam allowance on
the part that I'm going to need to shut
closed
my mask is pressed it's time to go ahead
and mark my pleats using my pattern so
I'm lining up my seam allowance line and
my folded line here and I'm going to go
ahead and mark the center of the pleat
I'm also going to go ahead and mark the
bottom of each plate
so in general I'm going to fold at that
center point and then fold again at that
bottom point and that's going to make up
my pleat so I'm going to go ahead and
pin that into place so I'm going to take
this bottom pleat and fold it up and
then mark it so from the side here
you're going to want these pleats to
kind of nest together so that you're not
accumulating too much bulk here and then
go ahead and fold that last pleat
everything nests together
so I have three pleats there in the
center and I'm going to go ahead and
repeat on this side now that my plates
are all marked I'm going to go ahead and
sew around the entire perimeter of my
mask and that's going to go ahead and
catch those pleats and sew them flat and
also close up my opening down here so
now that I've sewn around all sides and
removed my pins I have my finished face
mask
