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It's Not Easy!

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I've been busy making masks.  I have loads of fabric, mostly saved from the 80's when I used to make all sorts of stuff for people, cot mobiles, padded pictures, advent calendars to name a few.  I also have some of my granddaughters baby dresses, I have a couple of my daughters dresses from childhood, I have a couple of kilts which I found in properties my husband was clearing out for a landlord, I have wadding in anticipation of making a quilt I never did, I have netting, I have old sheets, duvets - I am a fabric hoarder!  However for now it is coming in handy as I make my masks for friends and family.  Everyone is choosing their fabric from photographs I send them.  My granddaughter picked fairy fabric, bought for a quilt I had intended to make her - oops!  My grandson, who's 18 I might add, has chosen Thunderbirds material from an old duvet cover of my sons - the original Thunderbirds so its retro!  I made my mum one from some elderly Laura As...