Live with Sew Cute by Katie making mask from a t-shirt no elastic needed

they'll take a second you hey everyone how are y'all I have a special guest with me today and y'all are going to be super excited because she's going to be showing us how to make a mask out of t-shirt I'm excited Hey ladies this is Katie was so cute bye Katie and y'all she has other videos on how to make mask on so make sure you go check out the channel it is so cute bye Katie and she is participating in this London Marathon we've been doing trying to keep everybody occupied so that you're not getting bored and going crazy so I am gonna make Katie large so that she can get started hey everyone give me one second I'm trying to tell everybody where to join us hey y'all good afternoon so how are y'all surviving today it's hard working about that's the YouTube channel right yep that's it won't let me post this sweet I'm trying to do this okay okay just telling everybody now I'm trying to find you find us I can make sure everybody can see ya we've got we've got people from everywhere I don't like this game oh here we go oh gee it's insane okay all right I can see us now and so I can make sure you all can see what I'm doing good thank you Laurie for letting me join you I've been making masks like crazy I own a alteration and embroidery gift shop in Louisville Kentucky and being that the stores closed now I'm just sliding away at home making these masks I've got a couple of videos that Laurie mentioned on how to make masks that we're gonna this is going to be video number four on how to make a mask and the problem right now is elastic have gotten to be like toilet paper and paper towels you can't find it and even material all the stores are closed except Walmart and they're even getting wiped out of material so we're going to get resourceful today and we're gonna make a mess like this but we're just going to use a t-shirt so you know everybody's got a t-shirt I'm sure there's one in your closet you can spare if you want to make one for yourself if you're making it brothers probably the cheapest thing would be to get undershirts just a package of mints undershirts and make them out of that and it would be really easy I have not done this a trial run but I think I can make it work so the good thing about niche is being that the little quarter inch elastic is so hard to get if you order it it's like shipping like a month from now so you can make your strips from the t-shirt cuz it's stretchy and it's soft so I think it'll work just fine so I'm gonna angle the camera down just so you can see my workspace better and see what I'm doing so I've got the tshirt laid out and first I'm going to just cut off this little hem right here because we don't really want to use that no I don't think you can find elastic anywhere it's like everything else hard to find yes okay so I am going to I'm using my quilting ruler which is um their six I don't know if you can see that thickness so that you can run your rotary kind of right next to it I've had some other rulers but like the little other plastic rulers you'll end up cutting it that's around second so I'm going to cut just a one inch strip first and this will be my earpiece a little thread that doesn't quite cut you know cut the seam open so we got one long continuous piece now I'm going to I'm gonna cut this a little differently than what I've done on the other mask because I'm gonna cut it I've been using nine inches width but I've been using like a big long piece and like folding it so I'm just gonna do a square and I'm gonna make it nine inches wide probably kind of think what they end up being 13 probably a 9 by 7 and then that way it'll give us a little bit for pleating and then I'm gonna use this this is a really cool marking tool it's called a friction pin and it looks just like a marking pin but when you run the iron over it I'll show you when you run the iron over this they look just like a like a pin mark but when you run the iron over it it disappears with heat so it's pretty cool oh that's cool I might have to have one of those even though they're needy all right I'm sure that would come in handy all right so I'm gonna just draw out my rectangle I want this to be using my ruler upside down told him can't remember than like wait a minute where am I going so we're gonna be nine inches and this is gonna be a nine by eight and I did mark this on the fold just to save on my fabric so I'm gonna cut that open because I actually need that little side let's smooth this out I got a little folded we're gonna put our last our fabric ties not elastic so I'll open that up but just so I'm not wasting any material okay so I'm going to separate this now you want to use put right sides together this is just a white t-shirt so I don't like doesn't totally matter but I won't put right sides I think I can tell so if you take your fabric strip you stretch it like this then it like totally curls up so it looks more like a tube so you can see the difference this is the section I have not stretched like this and then this is the end you got all skinny you stretch it so if you do that all the way down I would just stretch it that's gonna make your strip and I would cut that eight inches long and we on the elastic we use like seven half eight inches and you're gonna need two strips great both sides eight Francis katie has a really good video how to make the mask um if you're just looking to make the regular mask with the elastic stuff just check out her channel it's so cute by Katie here on YouTube and try that and don't get depressed just consider that practice okay so you're gonna put your ties or your earpiece close to the top and when you pleat this and it'll get closer together so just make it about a half-inch from it from the edge and if you've ever made and this you don't even need to sew up the earpiece because knit does not unravel it just curls so you don't even need to finish that so you don't need to like so it make a tube or anything like that just stretch it and it'll curl up but this is your alternative to elastic and you could use this on regular material I'm just making the whole thing from the t-shirt okay so now see that really well so it's white I think everyone's out of elastic Joanne so she's using t-shirt fabric I'm I just cut up a t-shirt so now if you had to pin down the color of your shirt I'm using white so it's hard to tell but put your right sides together and if you've ever made like a pillow or something this is kind of like what we're doing cuz we're just going to close it up we're gonna leave an opening and turn it so I'm just going to pin this around so you can see what I'm doing so I'm not gonna put a bunch of pins but I'm just showing you so right here I've got two pins I'm gonna start at one pin and go all the way around and stop at the other so this area right here is the opening where I'm going to turn it so I'm the earpieces are on this side and they'll be all stitched in and then we'll turn it and then we'll plate it so let me take you over to the machine here we're gonna sew and you just want to use like the edge of your presser foot kind of a seam guide it doesn't need a very deep seam allowance and then when you turn your corners put your needle down into your fabric and then raise your presser foot and swing the material around and being that the t-shirt material it does curl so I'm trying to just kind of uncurl it of us so to keep it flat that's right caught under here let me cut this there we go now we've got our straps sandwiched in between the two layers start everything stop okay so now we have our opening right here like this and we're going to reach in here and turn it right side up it's actually a t-shirt but I think you cut it did you say you cut it nine and I need 9 by 8 9 by 8 Karen if normally I have like a big long piece of fabric that I do all at once but I sense the t-shirts not a big continuous piece of fabric I just went ahead and cut two pieces okay so now I don't have my iron out but I would just iron or finger pressed where the opening is you just finger press this part down now what I would do is just leave this open that way you if you want a lot of people ask to have an opening to put some type of filter inside so this is going to be your opening for the filter will be right there and again you don't need to worry on the t-shirt because you don't want you to worry about it Frank or anything that it just rolls so then the next thing you need to do is just put two pleats and I just eyeball this I kind of start at the bottom and I pinch it up about you know a half an inch two inches and then fold that down and then I'll pinch in you know up here and now just kind of try to evenly distribute that okay so now you've got it pleated and we're just going to stitch down the sides right here and what I like to do is I start at the top and I put my needle down in the Machine and then raise your presser foot and turn it and then I stitch back up that way you stitched it twice so when you're washing and stuff you know it's not going to come on stitched and it's gonna hold those pleats really well so let me go ahead get this done and then we'll see how it fits hopefully it's good I haven't done one that's so cool too because it's easy to find t-shirts everybody has t-shirt extra t-shirts that's right but even if you don't make the last part on the t-shirt you can make your ear pieces from the t-shirt and then just use that you know make your other cotton materials but the t-shirts are going to be really soft too so I've got one side stitch it I'm just if you want to pin these pleats I don't pin mine just because I'm just do them you know quickly but you can just put a little pin or if it helps you to run the iron over it after you kind of laid out your pleats and then that way you don't just kind of stay in place as you sew it yes straps here from the t-shirt she just cut the trimming along the edge of the t-shirt and that's what she used and she stretched it first I'm fascinated by this that's probably mostly because I don't say well I used to so but I don't now okay so that's it and then you have your opening and then this will come undone some of me let's see how this looks this will be P true test now it's a little big on me but it worked cool now you may need to shorten up the straps because it's going to stretch more than the elastic so I used I think I cut it eight so I normally cut seven and a half eight inches on my elastic so I would probably cut these a little bit smaller if you're making it for yourself you might want to just you know maybe pin it on and then try it on before you sew it because you might want to make these little straps a little shorter so I might even go six and a half and because it does stretch a lot more than then the elastic does but you can see it's still stretchy the good thing is it's really soft so it's not going to be irritating your ears you know that kind of thing so you know just like a comfy t-shirt you know you've got your comfy t-shirt mask but you know you can make these strips and just use it on your cotton materials and if you don't want to make the actual mass from the t-shirt but it's just a good resourceful way since we're running out of elastic and all that kind of stuff so I think it's brilliant so just just trying to be resourceful so that is one project and then I was going to do a quick little Easter project since it is a week away and I'm at yet just making a quick table runner this is another quick and easy quilted project that you can do so I will put that back on the table and I'll show you what we're knew next awesome you know make sure you check out her channel because she has several videos on there on how to make masks that if you want to make masks she has other videos on there too thank you to meet her she has other videos on there about all different kinds of projects that she's done so with the table runner all you need to do is determine how wide you want your table runner and measure the length of your table runner you don't want it to hit the you know full width of your table you know I would bring it in you know right it's all personal preference I just really put them on there as a decoration some people want to hang it off the table but I just kind of lay it on top so I have mine probably about three inches from the edge on either side of my table so what I'm gonna do with this is just some very quick quilting I'm just gonna draw some lines and just sew straight across just sew the top of it has a little book this is just some fabric that I had gotten at Hobby Lobby a few weeks ago for Easter and I'm got quilt batting and I've got a piece it together cut by my scrap of batting mother exact but your quilt batting just like fishing but comes in a package or you can bed off the Roll so I'm going to use the friction pen that I was using before and I'm just going to I'm gonna stand and do some lines across and you can kind of notice that there are cute little puppies on that whole material it's so cute it is cute that's that's not a reason I bought it just cuz it reminded me of my dog it's so cute and my ruler it ain't happened just wide so I'm just gonna use the width of my ruler because I don't I just want to give it a little bit of texture I'm not gonna do any like heavy closing you can you know do any kind of design you want to do on there and then we're gonna put a back on it and it's gonna be a self binding that we're going to do so it's really easy I've never seen one of these made it's very easy I've started kind of doing it probable holiday because sometimes I think it's it's cuter it's a little cuter than some of the placemat but my children or my family myself included probably every time you put out cute placemats never-fail something still but and they're not great to wash they get out from me so I'm just gonna sew straight lines where my ten mark is just to give it a little quilting and then we'll put the back on it and you just want to make sure you keep your fabric smooth you know that it doesn't get a wrinkle in there and I'm just gonna roll this out because you know eventually I'm gonna get more and more kind of underneath the machine so I'm going to just kind of roll it and then do the next line rosemary would like to know where you got that ruler oh it is a quilting ruler I actually think I got it at jo-ann I can get it at any quilt shop or Amazon and I think I have a link to the mug on my website there's more information when I put that link to it my aunt alone stop knitting it for him there's all kinds like different shape things for quilt rulers this is just a regular I ran out of bobbin so then and these pre round bauble if I use like for embroidery just know the best ever and then you can just pop them in and not really have to whine one oh those are awesome see I didn't know that when I was doing it well they're warrants you don't sell them at the store like it's an embroidery supply because your embroidery machine you don't have like a thing to run bobbins you know like you do on your sewing machine oh no but they work in your sewing machine I'm learning all kinds of new stuff today huh I learned in all kinds of new stuff today I know I know I don't even just using you know white thread on my master some changing threads and trying to match colors and all that craziness so it's very handy and I'm just now I'm going to turn this around because put the bulk of it to the outside this is my last line and this is where I've got it pieced together so I gotta hold it carefully the baggie just gives it a little bit of texture honestly you don't necessarily have to do it if you're not gonna use any quilt batting but I think it just makes it give it a little bit you know of a heavier feel makes a little nicer and I'm just gonna trim off the excess that's hanging off here we don't want that in our binding all right about cut a piece of elastic that's like gold okay she lay this out a little pork okay so now I'm gonna use this cute little gingham and you want to cut your backing four inches at least and this is kind of personal preference but then that way you have like a little about an inch to fold in so you've got two inches on either side excess wider than your actual decorative top piece and just make sure that this is all nice and smooth other favorite ruler are these little clear either little flexible rulers but they're very very handy just a little two inch ruler you get these at Hobby Lobby and Joanne's or Amazon I'm sure yeah well since hobby lobby's closed you know I went on the Hobby Lobby just you can like oh maybe I can order fabric on there because it was very difficult to order fabric on Joey and everything I don't know if they put everything out of stock or if literally people have bought it all cut their stores in that club and I don't know if anybody's actually there to do online orders yeah I don't know but all their fabric everything I clicked on set out of stock and I'm like I can't imagine but maybe it is okay so I'm just using this ruler to make sure it's two inches excess well I think everyone's making mass so it could blow yeah well see this they can make them with t-shirts that's right pretty brilliant I'm just cutting off this selvage edge here which is this little fuzzy part that comes off the bolt now I'm gonna kind of cuz I don't have like pull this I'm gonna roll this out and what we are going to do this is called like you do this with an actual quilt as well and this is self binding it where you it's the same as your backing and you're just gonna fold it over the edge so I'm gonna do the sides first and what you want to do is just fold the edge you're gonna fold the edge to the edge of the fabric and then you're gonna fold it over onto the fabric so this is super easy but it's a great way to find a quilt and/or table runner cuz then it's all nice and finished and then you've got like a little decorative trim on it depending on which fabric you use and I'm gonna try to just so I can get it done evenly and then do each side and then I'm working my way up okay and I'm gonna do the sides first and then we'll come back and fold the top in the bottom now I'm going to trim this end a little bit because I need to get about two inches and then trim off my selvage edge real quick and if you're looking for new dressmaker so there's these are called this brand is called Chi I you just I usually like my gear centers but this brand tie they're very good so if you're looking for a good parent dressmaker shears this brands good okay so now I'm going to do the end that way I can just sew it all at once you turn this around and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna kind of do this like a package you like if you're I'm just pinning this for them hold it I'm gonna fold these let fold the point in and bring it down to meet and then I'm going to take the edge and do like I just did before and then it will make this little nice mitered corner and then once we take it to the Machine we can just continuously sew it all the way around there's one just make sure you keep smoothing it out just so that quilt batting doesn't get wrinkled under there and then I'm taking the corner and folding it in and then I'll fold this edge to the edge of the fabric and then fold it over onto it these are quick and easy so you can do these for every holiday which is kind of fun because there's all those kinds of cute little holiday prints and I never know what to do with it so a little table runners really fun okay so we have the edges all sew it around I would start you know you can start at the center on the bottom and just stitch all the way around what I'm going to do on the mitered corners it's what I get to when I sew here I'm gonna sew up to the corner and then turn it around and come back down just because that has an opening and then that way it'll keep it flat and then I'll come back up here and then we're just gonna sell right along the edge right here and top stitch that down now if you want to get super fancy if your sewing machine has decorative stitches you can certainly use a decorative stitch I'm just going to use a straight stitch cuz I met that thing and see I guess but you could definitely add you know some type of additional detail if you wanted to and I'm just sewing right along right inside right near the edge right to the mitered corner I'm gonna keep my needle down I'm gonna swing it in this so out to the point and then have my needle down raise the presser foot swing it back around go back up and then continuing around the edge that way those little mitered corners don't have a little opening at contain your star hop and open my day is yes keep my needle down rich friend and so up to this point and then come back in you and that's it look so pretty that's how quick and easy know you can get do that with all kind of different cute materials okay I like that what we're gonna have but you know it's just a little bit of light clothing you know you can certainly do I've done other table runners where I pieced together you know sections you know just a bigger fabric sisters I just like the fabric so this is just you know one continuous piece and then if you wanted to quilt you know do lines you know going the other way just to give it some more texture I just wanted to you know haven't have a little heavier feel to it so I just did a little quick quilting to it I love that yes awesome and thank you so much for showing us both of those today oh my welcome thank you so much for letting me do it of course y'all make sure you check out her channel it's so cute bye Katie just like in the description s eww a lot of people want to say s oh that's funny yep awesome Thank You Katie alright thank you so much thanks for watching you guys have Y all stay safe and give you questions about making masks uncle just have another thought you could you know some of the masks we did a video we're using ties you can still make the toys out of the t-shirt too because it actually might be a little softer yeah tying it yeah so the t-shirt ties you know community earpieces or ties or the other thing is I've had people say they're mass it's a little tight it's pulling on their ears you could tie that between the two loops to kind of make it you know one continuous piece around your head like a Halloween mask you know with the rubber band you know oh yeah now that you know that way you can create an extender you know Ryan so it's that way for tears yes that would help me drive me crazy having it around my ears all the time but yeah yeah just go to the grocery isn't so bad but yeah if you have to wear it all day and I'm sure it's absolutely feels weird and annoying right right I agree awesome we all go check out her channel and I'll be back later tonight with another cubby so y'all be watching out and Thank You Katie Thank You Laurie thanks everyone have a you later afternoon alright bye