How To Make A Pleated Mask For A Child
How To Make A Pleated Mask For A Child. You can whip up a few of these for you and your friends and family’s kids. Sew the ends of the elastics to the short ends of one rectangular piece (on the right side of the fabric) forming loops.

Start the first pleat about 1.25 inches from the top edge and press a fold. 1/2″ is a good starting point. Your glasses fog up when wearing the mask.
If you’d prefer to have it tie on top, invert the tie in step 12.
Making sure the pleats are going in the same downward direction. Sandwich pleated mask between folded channel pieces, then topstitch ˜⁄˛ from inner Sew the ends of the elastics to the short ends of one rectangular piece (on the right side of the fabric) forming loops.
I decided to create child size face mask pattern for you based on the extremely popular face mask for adults i did a few weeks ago.
And if you want a size for and older child or small teen, you could make one that is 7 1/2″x 7 1/2”. Make the sides of the mask a shorter length. Cut pipe cleaner to size if you're making the adult or child size mask.
Be sure to push the corners and side seams out using a chopstick, point turner,.
Pin paper pattern piece 1 to the double layer of fabric (printed side facing up) and use chalk or a pen to mark along the edge of the paper pattern piece. Do the same along the other edge. This is very easy and literally takes about 10 minutes to make.
Measure down 1 inch from there, and bring the first fold down to that mark and pin in place.
Place your glasses on top of the mask. Make sure the opening is at the top of the mask. Sew 1/4” top stitch around the entire mask, making sure to close the bottom opening;
The pattern can be used with any type of sewing machine.
Skip down about ¼ inch and make another fold, measure down 1 inch and bring the Do this for the top and bottom of the mask. Align the right sides of the rectangle pieces and sew all four sides with a ¼” seam allowance leaving a 3” gap opening.
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