Single Tie Back Face Mask Details: No Elastic, No Interfacing, No Bias Tape by learncreatesew

today we're going to talk about sewing face masks this is probably something you've seen a lot of recently but I wanted to share some tips that I've learned with you my mom made tons of these masks for people of different ages and she received a lot of feedback from them about what was working and what wasn't and so let's go over some of the suggestions that she made so the first thing I've done is I've used my pattern to cut out my mask pieces right now I'm going to make the teen adult size so I've cut out two rectangles of fabric these are approximately nine by six and a quarter inches um one of the things that people had mentioned when making are using the face masks is that they wanted to be able to tell which was the outside and which was the inside so using two different fabrics can be helpful because then you remember which side is supposed to be pressed up against your face and which side is exposed to the elements so two different colors works great um something else that we have found with making the face masks is supplies can be a problem a lot of people don't want to have to go to the store to get supplies to make these masks and a lot of the stores are out of some of the supplies that you need elastic is becoming much more difficult to find and so I tried to think of a way that we could make this with not as many specialty supplies to eliminate the interfacing what I did was for my exterior fabric I used one piece of flannel it's just a little bit thicker a little bit heavier but it gives some structure as the interfacing would but then interfacing won't be necessary so one piece of flannel for the outside you can use cotton if you don't have flannel and then one piece of cotton for the inside also since elastic is starting to be scarce I'm going to show you today how to make ties yourself for the ties rather than bias tape I'm just using a strip of cotton fabric this strip is about one and a quarter inches wide by the width of the fabric so about one and a quarter by about 42 inches so we're gonna use that for the straps and let's get started I'm going to take my long piece of fabric here my one and a quarter inch strip and I'm going to fold it in half I'm gonna fold it skinny like a hot dog and I'm gonna press take care to protect yourself when you're ironing so if you need to use a pressing tool to help protect your fingers from the steam I find steam does make this process a little bit easier but it can be quite hot so I like to use a silicon spatula so I'm gonna fold in this bottom edge to touch the center you don't want it to cross over the center but just to barely touch it and we're going to do that all the way along the edge okay once that sides done we're going to go ahead and do the same on the top edge so I'm going to fold the top edge down to that Center mark again you don't want it to overlap just want it to barely touch if there's a tiny gap in between your bottom edge and your top edge that's just fine it's much better than it overlapping okay now that those two edges are both folded in we are going to take the strip and we are going to fold it in half one more time so now that those two raw edges are in the center fold it in half again and press and this time you shouldn't see any raw edges you should end up with a strip that's a little bit more than a quarter of an inch about between a quarter of an inch and three eighths of an inch wide take the time when you're pressing this to make sure that those folded edges line up really well it will help you later okay my strip is all pressed and now I'm going to take it to the sewing machine to sew these folds together line up your two folded edges make sure that your needle is down when you start a little box stitch and so those two folds together really close to the edge about a sixteenth of an inch we can but you want to make sure you're going through all the layers if you need to stop and adjust do that I found that after stitching sometimes the fabric can be kind of wavy especially if you're using a lightweight fabric I'm using a broad cloth here it's really thin and so it gets pretty pretty crinkly after stitching but if you go back and you press it real quick it lays a lot flatter what we're going to do next is cut this into sections depending on the size of the mask you're making this may be different you since I'm making the teen adult-sized I'm first going to cut two pieces that are seven and a half inches long this is a half an inch longer than what I would cut if I was doing elastic so I'm gonna measure seven and a half inches and cut and seven and a half inches and cut and then of the piece that's left I'm going to fold it in half and I'm going to cut the center okay I now have two shorter pieces of strapping and two longer pieces so I'm gonna put these together for each side so I'm gonna take one long piece and one short piece I'm gonna take my long piece here and I'm gonna place the short piece on top of it I'm then gonna fold this top edge over and you want a good 3/8 of an inch to a quarter of an inch right here that extends beyond and what we're gonna do is we're gonna sew just beyond this edge we're not actually going to sew it to this we're kind of making a little channel for it to slide through so I'm gonna do a roasted right here just beyond that so make sure it goes over at least a quarter of an inch quarter of an inch to 3/8 so let me get that a little closer so you can see so we're going to sew right here it's just looping over this piece and we're going to do the same for the other side if you like you can use a little clip to hold it in place okay I'm ready to sew my strap in place you can use a straight stitch you can use a zig zag stitch you just want it to be really secure and you want it to be close to the strap without actually going over it um since this is really small I'm gonna hold it with my purple thing just to protect my fingers so I'm using a straight stitch and I'm gonna go over it three or four times just to make sure it's strong so that's so if you don't like this little flap holding up you can do another roll row of stitches to make sure it stays flat if you do a zigzag it kind of holds it in place and there we go my ties are now attached to the straps and I'm ready to put these on my mask okay so take your main fabric and we're going to mark the placement of the straps you want to mark each corner from the top and bottom edge so the first thing I'm going to do is mark the top edge so I'm going to mark 3/8 of an inch from the top on the right side and the left side I'm going to do the same thing on the bottom I'm gonna mark 3/8 of an inch on the right and on the left and I'm going to use this as a guide to place my straps so you want the right side of the strap to be touching the right side of the fabric and you can use pins or clips but I'm gonna lay one edge of the short strap to the right at the top aligning the edge with my mark and then I'm going to take the other edge and I'm going to take care to make sure it's not twisted and I'm going to put it on the other edge and now I'm going to repeat for the other side right side down online make sure the raw edges of your strap are touching the raw edges of your mask fabric now I'm going to take this to the sewing machine and base that in place you do want to keep these ties out of your way so I'm going to stitch here and here I'm going to be sewing this with a quarter inch seam allowance let's get my purple thing to help there we go let's do all four corners now that I have my straps attached to my mask I'm going to go ahead and add the lining that goes inside and what you want to make sure of is that these straps are out of the seam allowance path we're going to be sewing around the edges and we're going to leave a space here so we're going to start here stitch around and stop here and we're going to leave a little opening but first make sure these are all the way out of the way you don't want to accidentally stitch on them same with these edges here so let's place this on top is to take your lining piece lay it right side down on top of the outside fabric and pin it in place I do find it's helpful to align the corners so I like to do those first you use a quarter of an inch seam allowance to stitch around the edge and make sure you backstitch when you get the corner make sure your needles down lift your foot up and turn you you our linings attached and we're ready to turn before we do I'm going to clip the corners so this will just help reduce some of the bulk so I'm just going to clip off the little corner here take care not to actually cut your stitches and to not cut your straps or your elastic reach inside your mask and turn it right side out I find that the straps or the elastic really help with the turning process if you tug on them it will grab those four corners be gentle you don't want to pull super hard but it does help to get all of those edges turned out okay you can use a purple thing or a corner turner to further get those corners it does help with the appearance of your final project if you take the time to get those little corners okay now that it's turned right side out starting to look almost like a mask and so let's go ahead and press when you press make sure all of your edges are fully turned so you don't want anything tucked in you also want this opening to look like you sewed it so take care when pressing that section okay now we're ready to add the pleats so I'm gonna flip this over to the wrong side of the fabric I still have the opening on the bottom so the openings here on the bottom and the first thing I'm going to do is press it in half lengthwise skinny like a hot dog you can also use your pattern as a guide for the fold lines if you prefer so on the pattern it's got those marks if you prefer to use that we're just gonna fold it in half and press give it a good press I like to use that steam and now I'm going to open it back up and I'm gonna fold this to the center and press now I don't want to lose the edge I've already folded so I'm just gonna press this bottom edge here I'm gonna repeat and do the same thing on the top I've pressed my mask and now I have these three nice folds here that are in place so we're going to use those folds to create our pleats you're going to grab your first fold and pinch it and you're going to line it up so that it aligns with about the bottom of the strap you don't want it to overlap but just touch and then clip it in place so you can see it's touching but not overlapping clip and do the same on the other side and then you're going to do the same thing for your middle fold pinch it align it so that you can feel it so it kind of butts right up against the first pleat but does not overlap clip clip same for the last move our strap out of the way and last one okay so we now have our pleats in place and we're gonna take this back to our sewing machine and top stitch we're gonna sew all the way around the rectangle the whole thing we're going to use an eighth of an inch seam allowance and it will close this opening force so take care to make sure that this is nice and in place when you're stitching I'm going to be sewing the mask around the edge with an eighth of an inch seam allowance this is my opening here so I'm going to take the time to make sure those edges line up really well if you like you can use pins pick it out the corner and I'm going to remove my clips now this can be really thick so go slow if you need to here you now that you've topstitched give your mask one last press and the last thing I want to address is the raw edges you may notice that there are some raw edges in your project at the ends of your ties here and right where it was hooked here if that bothers you there are a couple things you can do one option is to use fray check you can simply put a little bit of fray check on those raw edges to help prevent further fraying something else you can do is simply tuck under the edge and sew it in place I find that the raw edges don't bother me so I just used that little bit of fray check but you don't have to have it but it is an option something else you can do if you know in advance when you're making this that you don't want those raw edges is you can cut your strapping for your ties first and fold under the edges that you know are going to be raw before you make your ties I like to do my ties all in one go so I don't do that but I think it worked quite nice and so this is our mask no interfacing no bias tape no elastic and it works super great so I hope you enjoyed this and I hope it was helpful to you I hope you enjoyed this video come see me for my next video and I'll show you how to make this super easy keychain holder for your mask that just fits right inside so you can carry your masks with you when you're on the go

Channel: LearnCreateSew

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Keywords: face mask, facemask, tutorial, easy, free, ties, tie, no elastic, no interfacing, no bias tape, one tie, single tie, pattern, how to sew, sew, quick, comfortable, breathable

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Length: 24min 23sec (1463 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 08 2020