Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[ShrekDawg]

Wicked does.

That cannot be healthy!!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

I hope Red isn’t too lonely out there.... he didn’t want to leave my lap to go in

 

[Beer can]

I've been trying to grow peonies in SoCal, I've got two buds!!!!!

We have a bunch of peonies one side of our house, love them. And have to mow around a spot that has another other side of our house. Here with hard winters they die down to the ground, come back beautiful bushes every year. They are super hardy awesome flowers!

 

[Beer can]

You know, I haven't got a clue what this means or what it references. OTOH, I'm not sure I'm interested anyway so ... whatever.

That's good! , Shadrach quoted a Alt right website. Twice you liked a reference to a Alt-right website

 

[featherhead007]

I hope Red isn’t too lonely out there.... he didn’t want to leave my lap to go in

It' dark, and cold and oh so lonely out there. Your poor bird! so unfair!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hope everyone had a great Easter if they celebrate it. Here is some cuteness for everyone.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Oh and this was our dinner earlier.

 

[ShrekDawg]

It' dark, and cold and oh so lonely out there. Your poor bird! so unfair!

I know I should have put Jack in there with him but I want him to heal so idk.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

@Kiki, how does Brazoria county look? I have family there. But they seem to think it's all "mass hysteria" and a government hoax to destroy the economy so a new one-world gov'ment can take over. Yeah, and we never really sent a man to the moon either, so trying to get info from them on Covid-19 numbers is .... well, not happening.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I'm using batiks and other closely woven, high quality quilting cottons. I bet you've got some scraps of batik that aren't really big enough for something else. I've ironed non-woven interfacing into some of them and skipped it on others. I don't see a lot of difference in the holding-it-to-a-bright-light thing but then non-woven interfacing isn't very opaque or thick.

I haven't tried batting but I think that would make the pleats harder to form. These things don't start out large and working 3 pleats into it is challenging enough for me. If you really feel you want the third layer you could use a thin fleece layer OR add a third layer of woven cotton hemming one long side and making it 1/2" an inch or so shorter so that it stayed free of the topstitching and created a pocket to slip something else like a coffee filter in. But, again, as the NYT article says, it's a matter of balancing protection with breathability.

Of course all this is based on using the Deaconess 9"x7" surgical style mask. If you're dong a more fitted form you'll work out your own methods and conclusions.

Good luck with it!

They say hepa vacuum cleaner bags are very good filters. You have to take the plastic layer out.