Wednesday, November 4, 2020

I’ve lost count of how many masks I’ve made since the pandemic started. I’ve sent them to Christy, Kathryn and Elizabeth and both Christy and Elizabeth have passed them along to friends.

Yesterday Health Canada announced that non-medical masks should now have three layers of fabric; the masks I’ve made have two layers but at least one of those layers was batik fabric which was the recommendation at the time.

I talked to a quilting friend today and she has found some re-useable grocery bags that apparently are made of the right fabric to use as the filter or middle layer. I’ll have to go through my bin of bags to see if I have anything that fits into that category.

I did more reading online and it is also said that if you don’t have the right filter fabric then a third layer of tightly-woven fabric (my batiks) will work.

I think rather than waste the elastic (the most difficult to find) I’ll make some three-layer masks, get them sent out, and then have the two-layer masks sent back. I’ll add a layer on the inside to bring them up to code; They will no longer be reversible and it won’t be pretty but it should work.