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Slumber is serious business when it comes to health and maximizing your beauty sleep. Artist, illustrator, and maker Sanae Ishida shows you how to whip up an easy and luxurious sleep mask. Learn how to use a template to cut your fabric pieces, work with fusible fleece, and sew the curves of your sleep mask with a sewing machine. A simple strip of foldover elastic provides a comfortable fit around your head. The best part of knowing how to DIY a sleep mask is how easy it is to tweak the shape to your liking, and you'll have so much fun making more in a variety of colors and fabrics, whether they're for special gifts or all for you.
Learn how to:
Here’s what you’ll need:
- 11 ” x 5” fabric for mask (sherpa, velvet, cotton, cotton/linen blends, silk, rayon)
- 11 ” x 5” fabric for mask lining (velvet, cotton lawn, silk, rayon)
- 11 ” x 5” fusible fleece
- 12” of 1" foldover elastic
- Coordinating thread
- Marking tool
- Fabric shears
- Snips
- Sewing machine
- Hand sewing needle
- Iron and ironing surface
Downloads:
- Sew a sleep mask
- Machine sew around a curve
- Work with fusible fleece
- Sew in an elastic band
- Sew the slip stitch by hand
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Sew a Sleep Mask Reviews
38 users recommended this class to a friend
Joanne Smaciarz
Great project for beginners when using simple fabric that is easy to sew. Easy to customize.
6 days ago
Rebecca Hoffman
Love this quick class. Straight forward and can't wait to customize my sleep mask to finally fit my face!
More than 3 months ago