How to Make a Sleeping Mask
I’m spending some time in Lewes again, helping my friend finish building her kitchen. Because the city of Lewes has updated their city lights with LED lights I can’t sleep at night because my bedroom is too light. So I went in search for a sleeping mask but couldn’t find a nice affordable one. I sometimes totally forget that I can make stuff like sleeping mask myself, how?
I’ve made two masks with bits of left over Merchant & Mills linen and Liberty Fabric. What you need to do is quite simple: cut 3 bits of fabric, using the sleeping mask template, one for the front, one for the back and a piece of fabric that blacks-out. You can use quilting material to make the mask nice and soft. First sow the front bit of fabric on the quilting material and cut out the quilting material. Now pin the blackout fabric and the fabric for the back to the fabric and quilting material for the front. Sew the bias tape all around the front of the mask. Measure a bit of pajama elastics around the back of your head, sew a funnel and pull the elastic through the funnel. Sew the funnel with the elastic on the back of the mask on the left and right side. Now fold the bias tape on the back and hand stitch all around. That’s it.
I hope you understand the instructions. I was going to film it but things were so busy that I forgot.
Love, Yvonne xxx