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mctreeleth:
Here it is! The instructions to make a pieced and quilted plague doctor mask!
Just as a heads up, this pattern is not really recommended for beginners. There is not a whole lot of explanation of the basic techniques, and it requires a fair bit of precision, two types of fusible interfacing, and an assumption that you can keep a consistent seam allowance and do some hand sewing and know when to sew things right sides together and such.
I am not promising anything, different methods will yield different results, I have never made a pattern exactly as it was written and neither should you. If you want something the same as the next person, go to the shops.
Actually, nevermind, this is a quarantine craft, stay home.
Keep reading
OK so I am going to do this, only I don’t think I’ll do the patchwork quite as directed– I have a stash of those little English paper-pieced hexies, that I think I’ll use for this except that the scale would work better if I made a bunch of smaller hexies, actually– and I’m not going to put fusible batting in it because I don’t have that, so what I’ll probably do is make the interlining with a bunch of boned channels in it that I’m going to do with old cable ties I know I have a stash of– so I’ll have to figure out where the boning can go to make this a semi-rigid structure, which will probably take some finangling– and then I’m going to line it in linen for breathability, and I’m not sure whether I’ll make the eyes of old sunglasses or from some scraps of clear vinyl I still have from the yurt roof window project (RIP), and I also think I’ll make it have a little more of a head covering bit or maybe it can go into an integral headband of jersey knit or something. I don’t know if it will be a wearable piece after all that– I’d probably be a bit self-conscious going to the shops in this but depending on materials used I might actually wear it out just to be funny. If it works the way I want it to, it’ll be lightweight and breathable.
(The important thing is that the boning is plastic and therefore washable, though I’m not sure if it would need ironing.)
But the main point of this is that I can hand-sew the whole thing so it’s a portable work-on project anywhere, and I’m going to do crazy-quilt-style embroidery over the hexies in some places, at the very least to sign and date it and have it become an heirloom of mine house, and hopefully in like 100 years when some great-grand-neice is doing a school project on The Plague Of 2020 she can bring in this bonkers-weird shit her bizarre spinster great-great-aunt made for no real comprehensible reason.
It’s optimism, in a way– firstly that I’ll do the thing at all (I will have to go back to my house to get supplies, and also this takes more engineering than I usually do and honestly my completion track record on things in general ain’t great), secondly that it will survive whatever comes, and thirdly that I’ll have great-grand nieces and those nieces will have access to “schools” where they’ll do “projects”… but anyway!
All we can do is do stuff, and I want to do stuff.
(I’m going to start by making a pieced and not quite quilted but sort of normal fabric mask for everyday use, because i can do that, I have all the parts to do it.)
mctreeleth:
Here it is! The instructions to make a pieced and quilted plague doctor mask!
Just as a heads up, this pattern is not really recommended for beginners. There is not a whole lot of explanation of the basic techniques, and it requires a fair bit of precision, two types of fusible interfacing, and an assumption that you can keep a consistent seam allowance and do some hand sewing and know when to sew things right sides together and such.
I am not promising anything, different methods will yield different results, I have never made a pattern exactly as it was written and neither should you. If you want something the same as the next person, go to the shops.
Actually, nevermind, this is a quarantine craft, stay home.
Keep reading
OK so I am going to do this, only I don’t think I’ll do the patchwork quite as directed– I have a stash of those little English paper-pieced hexies, that I think I’ll use for this except that the scale would work better if I made a bunch of smaller hexies, actually– and I’m not going to put fusible batting in it because I don’t have that, so what I’ll probably do is make the interlining with a bunch of boned channels in it that I’m going to do with old cable ties I know I have a stash of– so I’ll have to figure out where the boning can go to make this a semi-rigid structure, which will probably take some finangling– and then I’m going to line it in linen for breathability, and I’m not sure whether I’ll make the eyes of old sunglasses or from some scraps of clear vinyl I still have from the yurt roof window project (RIP), and I also think I’ll make it have a little more of a head covering bit or maybe it can go into an integral headband of jersey knit or something. I don’t know if it will be a wearable piece after all that– I’d probably be a bit self-conscious going to the shops in this but depending on materials used I might actually wear it out just to be funny. If it works the way I want it to, it’ll be lightweight and breathable.
(The important thing is that the boning is plastic and therefore washable, though I’m not sure if it would need ironing.)
But the main point of this is that I can hand-sew the whole thing so it’s a portable work-on project anywhere, and I’m going to do crazy-quilt-style embroidery over the hexies in some places, at the very least to sign and date it and have it become an heirloom of mine house, and hopefully in like 100 years when some great-grand-neice is doing a school project on The Plague Of 2020 she can bring in this bonkers-weird shit her bizarre spinster great-great-aunt made for no real comprehensible reason.
It’s optimism, in a way– firstly that I’ll do the thing at all (I will have to go back to my house to get supplies, and also this takes more engineering than I usually do and honestly my completion track record on things in general ain’t great), secondly that it will survive whatever comes, and thirdly that I’ll have great-grand nieces and those nieces will have access to “schools” where they’ll do “projects”… but anyway!
All we can do is do stuff, and I want to do stuff.
(I’m going to start by making a pieced and not quite quilted but sort of normal fabric mask for everyday use, because i can do that, I have all the parts to do it.)
