New Off-Set 3D Mask Design with No Template or Detailed Measuring Required!

well hello shiny crafty people welcome back to the channel tim totten here and i thought i would bring you a quick um christmas message that has nothing to do with christmas it's all to do with masks i'm actually at my workshop it's uh christmas eve and my staff has a day off and i had a little bit of time to come play with this fun new mask design that i just found it is a variation of the 3d mask but it is so much easier than the typical 3d mask it just uses a rectangle uh design so you don't need a special template or anything and when it's finished look how cool that design gets to be it's actually really comfortable too i'll give you my rating at the end of the video so why don't we come down here to the cutting table and show you what we need so i'm gonna just do it all in one camera today like the old videos i do need two rectangular tangles of fabric now for my size i had cut it nine inches by ten inches um this one is a little bit smaller this one barely fits me this is more of like a large or a medium large size this one was cut eight and a half by nine and a half and then you could do seven and a half by eight and a half if you wanted sort of a more medium size size mask and then i cut the elastic pieces about seven inches long for this one so between six and seven inches would be fine or you can go up to like eight inches and then put little toggles on it which i typically do so what we're going to do is sew around all four sides and leave just a small opening to turn it inside out and i'm going to use a quarter inch seam allowance so let's go over to the sewing machine and i'll show you how to do that we're here at the machine now and i'm just going to use my standard presser foot to sew all the way around leaving of course a little opening to turn it inside out now if i were doing a bunch of these i would i would definitely bring out my sewing machine or my iron i should say [Music] and iron everything perfectly but today i'm actually uh going to use a wooden a bamboo wooden press that's what this is right here and i'm going to use that instead of anything else so i'm just going to yeah i should start it off i'm leaving an opening a hole here so i can turn the whole the entire thing inside out i will just clip my corners that's just getting some bulk of this fabric out so i can push out nice corners here so i'll do that on all four of my corners being careful not to clip into the stitching i'm just getting some of the bulk of the fabric out of the corner now i will use my bamboo turner or my bamboo press here to point into the corners here but you could use a knitting needle if it wasn't too sharp or a stiletto that wasn't too sharp either a bod can really is a better choice or they have things designed specifically to turn things inside out so here i'm going to turn this inside out we're just getting a rectangle uh fabric two-sided fabric when we're done so i'm gonna push that all in there and even if you're a novice sewer i don't think this one's that hard to do you just have to follow a couple simple directions uh i'm making this one because i saw a really cute pattern for it um that somebody did one of those videos where they don't talk they just show it off and um and i thought it might help for you to hear some of the reasons why we're doing things a certain way now one of the way things i'm going to do to get these edges in here properly i'm just going to run my finger through that and press that from the inside i'm kind of pulling the fabrics apart and pressing it this is in lieu of bringing an actual full iron over here and like i said if i was doing more than one of these i would definitely get the iron out but i want to show you how ways to do if you don't have an iron or if your iron's not accessible and you want to quick kick out a quick cute mask especially if maybe um you're watching this today i'm going to post this today on christmas eve and if you're watching it today with me well then you could get into that and and do it so i pushed all that out i'm gonna sort of get it back to a rectangle i chose a geometric fabric on one side because in fact i can flip it over to the geometric side and see if i'm properly straight if i've got any weird lines going i'll know it wasn't pressed straight so um you the way you would use this um this press would be to hold and push along and it will actually compress so you have to do it against a hard surface i have a wooden surface down here and i'm using wood against wood so it's kind of nice if you don't have steam or an iron with you you can use a press so i do that wood press all right all around perfect our next step is to make sure we close up this hole this is the hole that we just turned it through so i want to fold those edges in one of the secrets to this is grab one end hold it still and then pull out on the other end and it'll pull everything sort of flat and then you can use whatever you're using to press either an iron or this type of press to really press it down all right i'm going to get this into the machine right here and start and i'm just going to use a the edge of the presser foot not even the full outside edge the inside edge to do a really close edge stitch i'm really just trying to get this whole thing flattened with my sewing machine and you could skip this step if you wanted and just leave that opening along one of the edges because we are going to sew back down the edges i just think it makes it look nicer it's simpler to do back where we started okay our next thing is decide which side we want to be our outside and which is going to be the top so this is going to be my outside fabric and this is going to be the top so what i'm going to do there is i'm going to fold this thing i'm going to put this thing with the outside down with the top here at the top and i'm going to fold in half to get our center point and then i can use our our fingers to finger press at each of those edges or we can use our wood press and now we have that center point and i can see where that is and then i'm going to fold the bottom edge up to that center point bottom edge up and then i'm going to use a couple of pins just to hold this in place just so it doesn't go anywhere i'm putting the pins somewhat near the bottom you'll see that near the lower edge then i need to find the center so i'm going to fold the whole thing in half and i will finger press again and here's where i'm going to use a chalk pencil and i'm just going to chalk a mark there and then i'll come back along with my grid and i'm going to draw a line from this corner of the fabric to that point and we're going to sew along that in just a minute and i'll do the same thing over here from this point over here to the center you want to use chalk or something so that you don't um you can take it out later or you'd have to use a decorative you know ink that you didn't mind i'll backstitch at the corner here and just sew all the way down to the point almost going off the fabric like really right to the point of that fabric back up the other side all right so that's the bottom and this is where our chin will go in and then i'm going to find the center point on each side here in the center point of here of this side so i'm going to fold up and find the center point use my fingers to really finger press that in and i'll just go ahead and mark it with a little mark there same thing on the other side fold it up in half finger press that find that mark as well you could use the pin as well and then we're going to fold the top down to there to create the part for our nose so i bring that point down to where i just put that mark on each side and just for myself to make sure this doesn't mess up i will go ahead and pin it again on each side you can imagine how fast you could do if you were doing a bunch of these like assembly line you know oh my goodness you get so quick with it same thing we're going to fold in half here to find the center point at the top fold that in half i now have the center point at the top i'll give myself just a little bit of a mark and then i'm going to connect those corners these corners to that center with my grid again this is just for our other line of stitching now if you thought you were really good at this you could just eyeball it put it in the machine and hope that you found from one to the other but i'd be a little worried about that so i'm going to do it with my device all the way down perfect look at that so i have that other point i'm gonna and what the benefit of doing it this way is normally when you do a 3d mask you fold the two sides up and then you stitch maybe at the top and the bottom and then you have to come in and put a stitch down each side this way this top flange is going to do that it's gonna look really great so and actually some people will go ahead and fold this out and stitch it down which is i think i'll try that on this one i think i'll do it that way i think it would be kind of fun to fold that out and see how it goes all right so i'm going to fold this top back out along the stitch and i'll backstitch the top stitch all the way down where it just about goes off the fabric right turn it around again this is folded this top this chin one is folded back [Music] i'm using about a two a stitch length of two on my machine so look at that i'm gonna take out the and we've got this shape on the front you see that point and then we've got bam the place for my nose and my chin to go in last thing we're going to do is i'm going to cut some elastic seven inches and i'm actually going to cut it i'm going to cut it yeah 7 inches i'm just going to go into my face and i'm cutting over here you can't see me but hopefully you can hear me what i need to do is put the elastic in here and down in here so what i'm going to try to do actually is put it into the smaller one first because that's the harder one to get into i'll do it from this side put an edge of the elastic in there and then i'm going to sew down over that line i've already stitched i will back stitch here at the top because this is where it's going to be the most vulnerable to rip out so i back stitch a couple times along the elastic at the top i'm going right down that stitch line already made and then i'm going to take the other end and tuck it in at the bottom some people make a channel so that they can replace these as they go along i need to get you a little closer so you can see what i'm doing but i i just feel like any of the masks i've given people they've lost them before it was time to replace uh elastic so i'm gonna trim that up let's come back here and do the other side we talked about i'm gonna put the elastic here into the smaller hole first that's gonna be the easier one uh to do without being in the machine back and forth a few times keep going over the line i've already stitched pop open that bottom part get that in there to be trapped inside and then oh just keep going and now i have sewn that together let me show you what it looks like on a person there you are you may notice a bunch of empty stuff behind me that's because we are moving stuff around in our workshop to make room for more fabrics so there we go that's the interior and traditional way a 3d mask is worn of course is with um those folds going up on your nose and your chin oh look and you get this big piece i have my kitty cats i have a cat at home her name is sophia she's a black cat i'm gonna tell you i kind of like it this way although this trough feels a little weird and i still might have snuck a nose wire in there only because i'm comfortable doing those but it's actually pretty good i'm not i'm not fogging my glasses up what i like about this design is you can actually turn it inside out so i'm going to go ahead and reverse it really pull those points out so they get reversed and now we get that design see how we get that sort of i like this geometry of it and then i pulled that again over my face and this one's actually more comfortable this way look at that you know it's kind of coming up a little high on the edges but i feel pretty good in there and i got plenty of room for my mouth i mean look how far i can push in before i get to my mouth it's really holding away from my mouth quite easily and i i kind of like the look of this it does feel a little bit like a duck bill or a dog snout all right so let me rate this particular design um i gotta say i am in this configuration i am actually more likely to fog my glasses up i'm gonna give this one a um for ease of creation because i could probably if i built a bunch of them i could do these in probably four minutes each i'm going to say that this is like a 8 out of 10. that's how easy it was i mean you don't there's no real measurement other than the original square everything else just goes off of the size of it i think in terms of comfort i'm also going to give it an 8 out of 10. i haven't worn it for any long period of time so i'll have to revisit it later and give you um my comments about that design i think is really cool looking i like origami and i am an expert on the architect frank wood right so i like really angular designs and really cool constructed things so i would probably wear it this way more often than the other because in the other you don't get any of that interior fabric you just you just do cats right i wear it this way far more often and i like the nice sharp angles so i would definitely probably like i said this is an 8 out of 10 for me um the deaconess pattern is still sort of my 10 out of 10 that's the old standby rectangle with all the pleats with a nose wire and adjustable toggles that's still the most comfortable i wear that every day but this pretty darn good um this is from a design i saw from a lovely young lady who just did one of those um three-minute sped up here's some measurements as you just see my hands doing stuff and uh and i thought it was a fine video but i thought maybe you might want some explanation for how this worked so this is a lovely early uh or christmas eve gift for you to show off this fun mask until we meet again next time have a happy holidays and stay crafty bye for now

Channel: Timothy Totten

Views: 255,566

Keywords: Mask, Mask making, diy mask, Cotton mask, Mask template, New mask, Custom mask, Easy mask, 3d mask, 3d

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Length: 14min 57sec (897 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 24 2020