Melbourne Masks Up
Today's the day inner Melbourne dons a face-mask - and it looks like we may have to comply with this new regulation for a considerable time - well beyond the 6 week lock-down... From the news reports it sounds like Melbournians are doing their bit today - as we should. Better a cotton face-mask than an incubator mask! I'm modelling my self-made version here. I don't possess a sewing machine so this was created using sticky hemming tape and ingenuity. Quite pleased with the metal strip insert that goes over the nose bridge which came from my 'may come in useful one day' stationery drawer. Who can remember ring files and the metal thing that you bent over to keep the pages together? Yep, had four of those. The material is a very soft Egyptian cotton from an old doona cover, and the hemming tape was at the bottom of my old leather school satchel which has doubled as my 'sewing basket' for many years. Sometimes it's really useful not to throw oddities away!