Mask Elastic With Buttons
Keep your ears happy and look cute doing it.
Mask elastic with buttons. Wearing a mask with elastic straps for hours on end can cause extreme irritation behind the ears. It just gives it a nice finished look and helps to give that elastic a little extra stability. The front of your mask should now resemble the above picture. These ear saver patterns allow the masks to hook to onto something other than your ear.
Fix a button with small rubber bands to your glasses and hook your mask ear loop to the buttons. Includes a full step by step tutorial and free patterns in two different styles. How to wear surgical masks without having sore ears or abrasion on your ears and head. We have instructions for how to make a fitted face mask and how to make a pleated face mask on create whimsy.
Buttons also need to be positioned properly enough that they don t put too much pressure on the mask. In some they are rubbing raw bleeding and causing headaches. This step isn t necessary. After many requests from doctors nurses and healthcare providers for a solution to this problem i came up with three different ways to put less strain on their ears.
Easy to make headbands with buttons for masks. Use ribbon elastic or wire. The medical community is loving all the handmade masks we ve all been making but there is a problem the elastic is hurting their ears. The elastic loops around buttons sewn on the band instead of around your ears.
Buttons can be sewn on any headband just make sure not to place the buttons too high the buttons should be near the high back part of the ear. Easy to fix. Especially surgical masks the elastic can only stretch so far so pulling it too far back might exert enough pressure to cause welts on the face or even snap the elastic if it s an older mask that has been re sanitized several times. Elastic masks that hook around your ears can be painful after a lot of wear.
The back of your mask should look like this. This is an easy extender for face masks that relieves the elastic around your ears and can tighten a loose face mask. Here is how to make a button band for face masks. Stitch down the edge of the mask close to the elastic side.