I'm the same as you
GG...I just don't go anywhere.
SC does the shopping
when he's appropriately dressed for the venture. When all these "no sew" ideas came out,
I made both the sock and T shirt versions from your link and they turned out really well for both. My favorite one is made out of a leopard print T shirt, and the sock with butterflies. Haa haa..we know SC masks are plain although he might get creative himself. This young woman in the video is sure better than most instructors, with no wasted time or jabber-mouthing like they have a captive audience. Whoops...I may be guilty of the same.
That explanation to follow.....
Forward:
Now I've graduated to sewing and I study every mask I see to combine ideas and make notes. It's become quite fun to get my sewing background out of moth balls, and the creative juices flowing again. Geeze does this mean I can thank the dang pandemic for something?...groan.
My "grand plan" if I ever pull myself away from this keyboard, is to make a custom personalized mask for everyone I know and love. I honestly know and love lots of folks.
Chapter 1
At this point, my major problem is
I'm lung capacity compromised. Some days are manageable without help, but on the bad days I use several prescription inhalers depending on how I'm breathing. Thankfully, I don't need an oxygen tank, but I do have
"BOOST" oxygen cans around the house if it gets really bad. I first discovered them when we visited
Beth in magical 7,000 ft. Taos New Mexico. That was really hard on me, with a nose bleed that took too long to stop and I had just started taking Xarelto, the blood thinner for my heart condition. I scared the bejebbers out of the
Souschief. Sadly, I'll no longer be visiting high altitudes, although we crossed the Continental Divide in Wyoming in 2011 at 8,391ft. Then in 2012 it was Switzerland with 11,333 at the Jungfrauhoch. Before all those places, 2008 found us in Costa Rica on the ridge of a volcano at 8,650 ft. That's the first time I told SC I could could either
walk or breathe but not both, and I had my first clue about my health. I wish those
BOOST oxygen cans had been around then as they just look lite a tall can of hairspray with a mouthpiece. I didn't want to go on so much about my health, but as SC recently pointed out, I've become a real jabber-mouth
just lately. Maybe I should be called the Princess Longwind of the West.
Lately it's like I've been both thinking and talking too much like I used to be with too much vino although I'm not slurring my words..just ask SC.
I've never been
whiner and hope I never am, so please forgive me if this sounds anything like I am whining.
Chapter 2:
My Doctors would give me a written medical dispensation for not being required to wear a mask, and I may ask him for one to be used only for an emergency such as in an ambulance ride (heaven forbid). I sure don't plan on leaving the house without one till there's a vaccine, but just the same, for my comfort I need a mask that's comfortable for my condition. I've practiced walking around the house with various masks, and none of them are actually acceptable to me.
I looked at the link Munky left for a knitted mask, and that's a possibility if I tried out different filters for them. I would use cotton yarn to make them cooler to wear.
I just don't enjoy hand work, although I know how. I have an old knitting loom I could use, but I see there are much better methods now while still being affordable. The last time I used that loom was 6 yrs ago for preemie hats for out little Cheyenne..(grand daughter) I'm still researching and I'll share my study with everyone if I get one of them.
Warning: Chapter Three may follow at anytime when least expected... __________________