Your Next Skill: How to make a face mask
Find resources for learning how to make a face mask. Below are several different resources--articles, ebooks and streaming videos --which may help you learn how you can make your own face mask at home.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Use of Cloth Face Coverings to Help Slow the Spread of COVID-19
The CDC advises the use of simple cloth face coverings to slow the spread of the virus and help people who may have the virus and do not know it from transmitting it to others. Cloth face coverings fashioned from household items or made at home from common materials at low cost can be used as an additional, voluntary public health measure. Sew and no sew step-by-step instructions for making a cloth face covering are provided.
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How to Make Your own Face Covering - YouTube
Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams, shares ways to create your own face covering in a few easy steps.
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Washington Post - Answers to your DIY face mask questions, including what material you should use
Provides answers to questions about DIY face masks.
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Wired - How to Make a CDC-Approved Cloth Face Mask
This articles provides 3 different ways to make your own face covering.
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USA Today - How to make your own face mask to help stop the spread of the coronavirus
USA Today provides a pattern and instructions to make your own face mask.
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New York Times - What’s the Best Material for a Mask?
The New York Times provides information on the different types of material for a mask that provide the best protection from coronavirus.
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The Complete Photo Guide to Sewing
352 pages and 1,200 photographs cover every aspect of sewing from choosing the right tools and notions, using conventional machines and sergers, perfecting your fashion sewing and tailoring, and producing lovely home décor projects.
Format: eBook
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Sewing Machine Magic
Sewing expert Steffani Lincecum shares 30+ years of experience on how to handle a sewing machine with greater ease and confidence, and explains how to easily find and use the right presser feet and other accessories for your machine, whether you purchased it at retail or found it at a yard sale.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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