This is Mary from jo-ann's craft team here toshow you how you can make this mask if you're looking for a way to help yourcommunity while you're at home to make your mask you will need cotton fabriclightweight fusible interfacing quarter inch knit elastic a pencil scissorsruler and piece of
paper to make your pattern and of course basic sewingsupplies like a sewing machine thread and pin okay to make my pattern I'mgoing to start by marking nine inches along the bottom of my paper from that nine inches I'm going to goahead and measure up six and then I'm
going to go ahead and markthis bottom 9-inch edge as being cut on the fold if you're making these mess out ofscraps of fabric and your fabric is less than twelve by nine inches you are goingto want to go ahead and add an extra quarter of an inch along
this lengthhere so that you can cut out of two pieces of fabric now I'm going to goahead I'm going to use a quarter inch seam allowance so I'm going to mark thatas well and this is going to help me mark where my pleats need to be sothere's my
quarter of an inch seam allowance along that side and now it'stime to start marking my pleats so I'm going to take my ruler and I'm going toline the eighth of an inch line up with my quarter inch seam allowance line andthis is going to give me the most
evenly spaced pleats in the easiest waypossible so now I'm going to go ahead and mark the center points of my pleatso this is the point that is folded outward so I'm going to mark at one anda half inches then again at three inches and again at four and
a half inches these are going to be 1/2 inch pleatssome also going to go ahead and mark with a dashed line where the rest of thefabric for my pleat is going to take up so I'm going to mark out 1-inch andagain at two inches two and a half
three and a half four and five then I'm goingto go ahead over to the opposite side of my mask and Mark those same points alongthis edge working from this seam allowance edge down so that my pleatsmatch on both sides okay now that I have my finished pattern it's
time to cut outmy fabric so I'm going to go ahead and place this pattern on the fold of myfabric and go ahead and cut out one I'll also need to go ahead and cut outthe same piece out of my interfacing so now I have my interfacing applied to
thewrong side of my cotton fabric and I've got ahead and folded it right sidestogether in half this way so that I have a 9-inch edge here and six inch edgehere before I start sewing I'm also going to need to cut two pieces ofelastic seven inches long each I'm
gonna go ahead and pin my projectI'm a so along this edge first and I'm going to want to leave a section abouttwo and a half three inches long that is not sewn so I'm going to mark thosefirst and I like to put two pins together just as a
reminder that I'msupposed to do something different there okay let's go take this and sew it okaynow that I have my edge sewn here with my open space in the center to turn itright-side out I'm going to go ahead and place my elastic in so place it in eachend
and tuck in the corner but just a little bit poking out there and you cango ahead and pin this into place and then go ahead make sure your elasticisn't twisted and repeat in this top corner and then again on the other side okay so now that my elastic
is pinnedinto place I can go ahead and sew across both sides and I'll want to make surethat I'm back stitching really well across this elastic so it's secured inthere okay both ends are securely sewn with my elastic caught inside so now Ican go ahead and turn this right
side up now I'm gonna go ahead and take thisover to my ironing board give it a good press and tuck in the seam allowance onthe part that I'm going to need to shut closedmy mask is pressed it's time to go ahead and mark my pleats using my pattern
soI'm lining up my seam allowance line and my folded line here and I'm going to goahead and mark the center of the pleat I'm also going to go ahead and mark thebottom of each plate so in general I'm going to fold at thatcenter point and then fold again
at that bottom point and that's going to make upmy pleat so I'm going to go ahead and pin that into place so I'm going to takethis bottom pleat and fold it up and then mark it so from the side hereyou're going to want these pleats to kind of
nest together so that you're notaccumulating too much bulk here and then go ahead and fold that last pleateverything nests together so I have three pleats there in thecenter and I'm going to go ahead and repeat on this side now that my platesare all marked I'm going to go
ahead and sew around the entire perimeter of mymask and that's going to go ahead and catch those pleats and sew them flat andalso close up my opening down here so now that I've sewn around all sides andremoved my pins I have my finished face mask
