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 I haven't actually made much progress on the list I posted over a month ago. I did iron some interfacing onto some parts of the Toby K hoodies, but that's about it.

I'm not sure if I had a Jalie hoodie on my list, but I did finish that. I cut it out about a year ago and just finished it now. I did some colour blocking on it, and certain people thought it looked like an old Grandma's fleece. And, it kind of does a bit. An old Grandma's fleece from the 90s. I need to get some photos of it, but I've already been wearing it. 

I also finished the Lago tank, and a pair of Bunzies. I don't remember if the Bunzies were on my list. The Lago tank still turned out to be too baggy, but nowhere near as bad as the Jalie one from my last post. I need to take some photos of them too.

The only thing I do have photos of is face masks. I'm sure every sewer has been making masks in 2020. I actually wasn't going to. I just thought I'd never leave the house so I'd have no need for them. But then my college people had to go back in to college and masks became mandatory in public places. Weirdly, M's work only just started having people wear them at work.

I've been using a free pattern from Twig and Tale. It's pretty much the only pattern I've used. I'm quite happy with it. It has two different styles of masks in child to XL adult sizes. My first batch I ended up making from fabric napkins, which turned out pretty well. Then I got some adjustable ear elastics and some metal wires for the nose parts so I could up my mask game. These are some of the ones I made.


R is modelling this one (while wearing his pyjamas). He also dyed his hair blue. I think he's wearing a large size, which is more of an adult size. I did make him some in the medium size, which fit better.


E really likes bees, so these were for her. The adjustable ear elastics really make a difference to the way they fit.


I made these scrunchies with the left over fabric. I plan to make more but these ones turned out really tight because of the elastic I used. The pattern said to use 1cm elastic, which I thought seemed a bit thick. My 1cm elastic is pretty strong too. They work okay if you use them around a bun or something, like as a decoration, but you couldn't use them to actually tie your hair back.


These are some that I made for my mum. They're not all for her. She had people that she was planning to give them to. She gave me the fabric and said I could keep the leftovers. I think I could make a few more scrunchies from it. Red tartan scrunchies might be nice.


Here's some more from the fabric she sent me. The blue flowery ones were very small cuts of fabric. Not fat quarter small, but even smaller than that. I could only manage to squeeze medium pleated masks from them. Although the pleated masks look a bit bigger and are more roomy than the panel ones, they actually use less fabric because you only need to cut one part instead of two.


Hopefully everyone has more than enough masks now!

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