How to make homemade cloth face coverings

Cloth face coverings are now being suggested as an additional step to take if you have to go outside.

You may even have the supplies around your house to make one yourself.

The centers for disease control is now suggesting americans wear cloth face masks while they're out in public to help limit the spread of covid-19.

That message can be a little intimidating, but with just a few resources, you can make your caleb ox 55 saylor shows us how.?

A number of different organizations are now making cloth face coverings for americans to use, but what if you don have one yourself?

Caleb on cam: with just a few items you may have lying aroue able house, you to make one for yourself.

Fullscreen:youl need two pieces of 100% cotton fabric cut into 10 inch by 6 inch rectanglestwo 6 inch pieces of elastic, rubber bands, string, or cloth stripsneedle and thread, scissorsif you have one,e sewing machineif you thinking, hmm i think i have a sewing kit, go look in here you may think it has cookies in it, but it very well may be your sewing kitstep 1: cutting to help me, i made a quick cardboard template to help me cut my fabric grab your scissors and cut your two pieces of cotton.

You want a cott tightly woven like a quilter cotton.

Some studies that are under way have found that tightly-woven cotton can block upwards of seventy percent of particles.

Step 2: sewingalong the long edge, fold your fabric about a quarter of an inch and hem it.

You can use your sewing machine, or if you have a needle, double up your thread and called a back- stitch.

This will help ensure a strong, durable stitch.

Once you finish the long edges, fold the short edges in half an inch and hem.

You should create a sort of tube.step 3: ear e using you elastic, take one end of your strip and place it inside the end of the tube you created on the mask and sew it in place.

Repeat on the other end and the e her side.

If you using something like string.

Feed your string through tube on the mask and tie a knot in it.

Then rotate the knot inside t e tube so it doesn show.step 4: fitting secure your mask on your face and make sure it covers your mouth and nose.on-cam: there are other options as well on how to make a mask out of an old t-shirt or even a bandana.

Those instructions can be found on our website w-f-f-t dot com.in fort wayne, caleb saylor fox 55 news.