mctreeleth:

mctreeleth:

I made myself a pieced and quilted plague doctor mask! 

Not for any real reason, I just realised I could so I did. It took about 5 hours of pattern drafting last night, and maybe 10 hours of actual sewing today.

I couldn’t find any fusible interfacing so instead it has two layers of cotton quilt batting, making it a bit softer and squishier than intended and also very very hot and very very hard to breathe through.

I pulled the lenses out of an old pair of sunglasses, and they can be popped out through the inside because I didn’t do a very good job on finishing the insides of the eye holes. 

The fabric is from a big stack of 10cm squares I cut about a decade ago. I will probably remake the pattern when I get some interfacing with some different prints and a couple of design tweaks, but also it has been a fun 36 hours of hyperfocus on a dumb pointless project and its 50/50 that I am over this now. 

I did the second version with proper interfacing and a bit more modern aesthetic in the fabric choices, and since it looks so much crisper I can see all the changes it needs.

Loosely speaking it needs to be: a bit longer, a bit more curved, with the eyes a bit closer together, and for that one annoying six-piece point on the side of the beak to be changed into two four piece points. 

As for a pattern? Yeah, I will do one. ish. I am still making it up right now.