We were told to wear masks – but there weren’t any to be had. So I – and many others – started sewing.
I still have a few of them. It’s pure superstition: if I throw them out, I will need them again.
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I still have all of mine! You just never know…
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They were pretty but not all that effective. If we need masks again (touch wood, spit over my shoulder, knock three times) I will buy … or sow again. My design evolved and the last one was the best (it was open at the sides to put in a sheet of fleece).
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Until we could find masks, I was using a bandana that made me look like some kind of old cowgirl bank robber. Oh, everyone had some comment…🙄
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😂😂
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Same here, but also I discovered during the pandemic that the cloth masks are helpful to keep me from coughing and sneezing when the pollen is really thick in the springtime.
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I haven’t tried that one. But I found out that my hayfever tries something new every year. This year it affects my eyes more than my nose. I don’t think the masks help there.
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Different pollens seem to hit me in different places.
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I too have kept mine and still have some paper ones in my car as well as a cloth mask.
Come grass seed time I wear one mowing but more of the industrial design.
These look good Elke
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Thanks. My later creations were more colourful (when the shops opened again).
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I remember those days very well. Telling us to wear masks, but there were none. I still have a bandana that I wore as a mask.
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I volunteered to sew masks for the local hospital. We received material and a pattern and could keep 2 masks for 50 ones sewed.
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Wow!
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There was little else to do anyway …
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I still have mine, too… 🙂
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My elder uncle made masks at his home for the whole family back then.
Yours are so cute
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Thank you. Once the shops opened again, I got cuter fabric (dinosaurs and stuff).
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Great masks 😎👍
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Thank you. Unfortunately I got in a lot of practice …
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I can’t sew, so I bought mine from one of the railway companies – LNER. The company were donating the profits to a mental health charity so some good came out of the situation.
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Good for you (and them and the recipients).
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I have so many masks! i am ready for the next contagion that is for sure!
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🧄🧄🧄 Don’t say it out loud! And keep away from me!! You’re axing (sic!) for it!
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I would hang onto them, they say there will be more and it is looking the bird flu could be the next one.
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I’ll definitely BUY disposable ones then as the cloth ones were better than nothing but still a makeshift. The ones I sewed for the hospital were better (because they supplied special material to use). And if they really run short – I guess I’ll have to drag out the sewing machine again.
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