Tight fitting durable face masks with filter materials you can boil to disinfect

I started making masks last week and the patterns I found didn’t fit well. So, of course, I made a new pattern. Then Scott and I researched filtering materials and the “behavior of microscopic particles” (which is an interesting science lesson by itself ). We read the Cornell study and decided that there are materials that could reasonably be expected to work better than the “two layers of cotton and a tea towel” that was the idea of that moment.

Here’s a video to show you how to construct masks that meet my criteria: locally available materials, fits tight to the face, maintains air pocket around face, resists moisture transfer into the mask, uses durable filtering materials designed to catch microscopic airborne particles, can be sewn on your home machine, and can be boiled to disinfect. The materials I chose were, 2 layers woven cotton, HVAC filter fabric, and a microfiber dust catching cloth. Hope you and yours stay healthy.

Patterns available as downloadable PDF here.

Y’all please respect my intellectual copyright here. Feel free to share this on your blog, make them for you and yours, and in this time of pandemic, make them as a hobbyist to sell. But, if you are going to mass produce them or make a significant profit from them, please contact me and pay me as the designer . Thank you!