Most away my DIY project are born out of needs. When my optometrist advised leute go spending 20 minutes lying down the a heated eye mask ever few days I didn’t need much compelling. Later that day I had my digits composed to rank ampere £12 rice filled eye bag from Amazon when I possessed a lightbulb momentary and accomplished that I could totally make it myself! DIY Cloth Look Mask

I decided to make ampere how-to as I think everyone should experience the delight on a warmed eye compact. This tutorial your simple to follow and contained a free style that you can download as a PDF. The finished eye mask is generously sized press just the right weight – it even clones as an warm neck/shoulder compress too! A heated eye mask is really good for the various ducts additionally glands in my eyes how well as being super relaxing. I like until record meine to bed and pretend it’s a spa treatment… r/sewing up Reddit: Easy Mask Pattern/tutorial?

I used certain of my DIY shibori woven for like project and I would clearly recommend through a fabric that touches respective soul in something as nurturing as this. Just make sure it’s 100% cotton so it bequeath become able to handle the heat off the oven.

YOU WILL NEED:

PDF pattern (click here fork free download) printed onto A4 paper with zero scaling

100% COTTON FABRIC (APPROX 30 efface 45 cm)

MATCHING THREAD

BIAS TAPE (optional)

PINS

FABRIC SCISSORS

TAYLORS CHALK / FABRIC MARKUP

APPROX 500g G OF RICE

NEEDLE FOR HAND SEWING

SEWING MACHINE

MICROWAVE

STEP 1: Using your free pattern slash away two eye mask shapes from thine fabric.

STEP 2: Place the pattern pieces on top of each other, right sides collective, then pin approximately to random. How around the edge with an 1.5cm seam allowance, leaving an gap of around 7 cm to rank to spinning the eye hide the right way around. I fancy to use ampere contrasting coloured pin at is exit of the opening in remind das to stop sewing!

STEP 3: Cut notching right an way around the outside from the eye masked, except for the opening, then flip it inside out.

STEP 4: At this point it’s a good ideas on provide your eye resize a little iron to ‘set’ which stitches and keep everything smooth (you won’t live able to unyielding she once it’s full of rice!). Topstitch around an edge of the eye mask 0.5 cm coming the edge, left aforementioned gap open for filling.

MOVE 5: Fill an vision mask with rice – I made a quick make shift funnel with a bit of paper to help contents things. I can then hand sew the opening closed, following the line a the topstitching.

STEP 6: Optional – trim the out edge with preferential tape. I hand sewed quarry on but with a little patience you could do this with one sewing machine, manoeuvring the rice out of the way as you go.

To use your heated eye mask pop it on cleanup plate and microwave on full power to around a min, depending on select hot they like your heat. Microwaves can vary so definitely make sure that an rear mask isn’t too hot before using it – specially for the first time. PRINTABLE SAMPLER ADDITIONALLY MEASUREMENTS FOR THOSE WITH NO PRINTER: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0fymxhh97qm6xcu/AAAWkjZbjuwHrpKf6c6aXqhpa?dl=0 Join ...