 All right, so we have our piece here first thing we're going to do is fold it over Okay, so you're folding it over right sides together Now when you're sewing a couple of things Before you even start you want to wash and dry your fabric Two to three times you want to get all of the the amount of shrinkage that might happen out of it So wash and dry your fabric at least two times preferably three times Now when you're sewing You should also be sewing with a stitch length of about 10 to 12 stitches per inch We want to keep these nice and strong again because they're going to be laundered a lot So we want to make sure they they hold up in in the wear and tear and the laundering So you want to have about 10 to 12 stitches per inch when you turn your sewing machine on it generally defaults to a 2.0 or 2.5 stitch that should work just fine But you want to check that too don't have big basting stitches in there. We want these to hold together alright so first Stitching line you're going to do quarter of an inch After you have folded the piece in half now we have correct sides together That's the correct side of the fabric wrong side of the fabric correct sides of the fabric together We're going to sew at a quarter of an inch So before you begin check and make sure that you have that quarter of an inch Seam allowance marked on your sewing machine if you're not familiar with your sewing machine Alright, so I've already done that and I'm going to sew this quarter of an inch seam Now you want to keep this nice and strong So you want to back tack go back and forth about three stitches at the beginning and end of each seam So There's a quarter of an inch seam now. We want to press this so we're going to press this seam Just press it to one side and then we're going to turn this out All right, so we're turning to The correct side. All right, then here's our seam Make sure that seam is at the bottom and I would give it another quick press just to Make sure that seam stays at the bottom and we're going to flatten this out All right, so we have this now the next thing I'm going to do is sew Quarter of an inch down each side I want to I want this to act as one unit when I'm pleating it So if I don't secure those two edges together, they they might act a little independent Right down the side Okay, quarter of an inch down the other side now this is acting as one unit Next thing we're going to start pleating now on your pattern. You have some notches which are kind of a way to communicate to To know where to bring the pleat lines down to so let's take a look at our piece We want the fold line up here And I'm going to mark. This is our small size mask So I'm going to make a little pencil mark at one and a half again At one and a half inches each side So these are notches just a way to communicate to yourself where you need to fold to here and here that was at one inch and then one and a half inches again, so Again, these notches one and a half one and a half one inch and then one and a half Okay, a little bit different. This is written in the instructions. So certainly download those you'll have you'll have some prompts in there as well Okay, so I have this marked and Sometimes it is helpful just to clip the fabric in fact when you downloaded the pattern you might have clipped your notches Which is absolutely fine that works great Okay, so these little clips right here They just alert you to where you need to bring the fabric down to or it alerts you to your next step Okay, so our next step again, this is the fold. This is the seam We're gonna bring this down. So I'm I'm see how I'm pulling it taut here at the top notch So the top notch is brought to you the first notch is brought to the second notch and then I am going to pin and pin okay Then I'm gonna pull that third notch taut Bring it down to the fourth notch like this. See we're creating pleats here Okay, now we're gonna put a pin in here and a pin right here I'm gonna go back to the sewing machine and I'm gonna sew these down just here and here I just want to hold those pleats down. So when I'm sewing or working on another step I don't need to be mindful of those and keeping those together and closed so back over here quarter of an inch and We're gonna sew this Be mindful of that quarter of an inch. Okay, we don't want to make this Too small you don't need to back tack on this. We're just sewing this down to flatten it Now one thing when you are Working pull those pins out of the way when you're sewing don't sew over pins when you sew over pins Occasionally your sewing machine needle will hit those pins and break the needle either the needle or the pins and It can kind of fly up. All right Other side Right, so we're looking at this right now Okay, pull those pins out. We did not sew over those. We got those out of the way. So starting to look like a mask Alright now our next step is to put in two additional pleats So we have this it's nice and flat right now, but you want to look at this find Find the area Here there's my seam right there and the area that's about one and three-quarters and really it it almost just Depends on which way you flipped your mask But you want to look at this and and find them kind of though the longer section It's longer from here to here than it is from here to here and your pleats are up Okay, so find that longer area and we want to mark seven eighths of an inch Above here. Okay, so we're gonna mark in our seam seven eighths of an inch and that is right here and then on this side Seven eighths of an inch here is right here This is for our additional pleat and make sure that they're their level So put your ruler down and make sure that those notches are our level and again It doesn't matter if your seam is above or below You just kind of want to look for that area where it's a little bit wider Okay, and then we're gonna take this Drag this up. So I took that's where the this Pleat is this first plate here. I'm just dragging this all the way up to here. Okay, and I'm putting in an additional pleat right here and drag this up to here You could click that notch if you want Okay All right, so we're looking at this Now what this does it it allows for some cupping over the face over the nose And it also ends up kind of hugging the sides of the face a little bit better All right, so you're looking at this and again It doesn't really matter whether you're on this side or this side, but you want to just choose your correct side Okay, and then this is going to be seven eighths of an inch above All right now we have this I'm now going to secure these down on each side. So let's do that Again, I'm sewing at a quarter and I don't need to back tack on this because I am going to have a final stitch which sows the side Panels on and that's really going to be the one the stitch that holds everything together So right now I just want kind of a temporary hold of this pleat. So it doesn't move around Okay, so we're looking at this so far Now the next step you want to trim your edge here just about a 16th or an eighth of an inch You want to just get that nice and straight So you're looking at maybe an eighth of an inch from this the stitch line or three sixteenths So we're really just cleaning up all of these threads and making this nice and straight for our next step Okay, just right here So I have these two straps and we're going to fold it in half and just clip The edge right here. Okay? We want to notch this All right, now We're going to fold this in half our Our our mask in half like this just to kind of find the edge which is really right at that pleat right there So what we're going to do? Correct sides together. We're going to sew this strip on right here. Okay, so let me grab my pins We're going to sew this at One-quarter of an inch So pin this we're just going to sew this right here. Okay, and you can do you can do kind of production line Where you do each side the same step on each side or you can do one and then the other whatever you choose All right, so we're going to get this nice and secure. We're going to sew this at a quarter Don't sew over your pins And Get to the end All right, now I'm going to press this so let's move this out of the way and We are going to press Here's our the backside of our mask. We're going to press Here, let's start over here. We're going to press this edge in a quarter We're going to press this edge in a quarter and then we're going to press the the end in a quarter So let me do that Okay, so I just finished my pressing so you could see I pressed this edge in a quarter this edge in a quarter and the The end at a quarter press your long edges first and then the end last Also, we're pressing up the the seam allowances from the mask up into the strap right here Okay, and this is going to fold over see how neat that is like this now Remember to find the front of your mask. We should have a pin in there To show the front of the mask, okay? Just like that just so you can keep an eye on that so you know where where to do your stitching You always get a better-looking stitch coming down from the needle than up from the bobbin. Okay, so we have this Let's put a couple of pins in here if your fabric is fairly stiff You don't necessarily need to pin the these before you sew this the long part of the strap But I would pin this area here because you really want it secure and you want to be able to sew on that the correct line You don't want that moving around. Okay, so if the very least just pin this area, but you could probably get away without pinning the strap Okay, so let's put this in again. We're going to sew at a quarter of an inch and you're just enclosing this Back tack Be nice careful over the mask section. Be sure to pull out your pins as you go Going over a lot of layers there where those pleats are Okay, and then there we go you're gonna repeat this process on the other side, okay? Exact same thing. You don't need to watch me do that again It's gonna come out looking like this and then these straps wrap around the head And they they tie in the back of the head to keep it nice and secure