This video from Laural Hoffman, a professional pattern maker, shows how to use industrial procedures in the home to make the CoverAid PHL Fabric mask v1.
Masks and Respirators are the first priority of CoverAid PHL, an open community dedicated to coordinating supply chains and innovations to support personal protective equipment needs of professional health care in the Philadelphia region during the Coronavirus pandemic.
The video shows how I’m making masks that are needed here in the Philadelphia hospitals. I estimate my speed at 10 minutes per mask. This includes cutting time.
This is all volunteer work, done by fashion professionals and others here in the Philadelphia area.
The sewing in the video is shown on a feather-weight so viewers will know they can use industrial procedures in the home with ANY sewing machine.
Bundles of 10 each, cut and waiting to be sewn. Here at home, just as is done in industry, I am bundling the cuttings in preparation for sewing. Ten per bundle seems to be the right amount.
I’m chaining-through as I sew the binding on one side of the mask. Chaining-through saves thread. It also saves time because the thread is less likely to come out of the needle – requiring one to stop and thread. Chaining through also prevents the snarl of fabric that so often happens when one starts to sew a seam.
The Contemporary Fashion Education program’s mission is to give all people: professionals in the industry, entrepreneurs, students, and people sewing for themselves and their families; access to the designing, drafting, and fitting procedures used in industry to produce high-end, beautiful clothing.
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