Quick projects: Masks and Scrunchies

 I wanted to do some super quick and simple projects, so I threw together some masks

Y2k print for the kiddo, blue for Husband, and a bit left over from the last motorcycle jacket for me. They all have a layer of heavy embroidery stabilizer inside, and are lined with scraps of a high thread count cotton sheet I used for the backing of a bedspread. (We also got our booster shots a few weeks ago.)

And then, since I had the elastic out, I decided to throw together a few more scrunchies.  I'm still not prone to wearing them, but I do acknowledge their convenience.

I got into the small yardage stash and used a few pieces of silk.  I bought the paisley-textured purple silk in the late 90s.

Scrunchy luxury.

Another quickie

 This time for the kiddo, who currently wears his hair in a low ponytail held with a black jersey knit scrunchie that was in a package of otherwise doll stuff someone gave me.  So, I thought I'd offer a different scrunchie.

He likes purple.

(and of course I didn't measure the fabric, just squared up a scrap that looked roughly the right size)

Gotta keep the average up

 What do you do after a project that takes a week?  You do a project that takes almost no time.

Now...I was a teen the first time scrunchies Were A Thing, and I...didn't particularly like them back then.  I still remember making some, probably to give to people, and I remember being extremely vexed about how to make them.  I've started wearing my hair in a ponytail when sleeping, and decided I wanted a scrunchie for that instead of the random loop of knit I was using (yeah...)

So I looked up how other people were making scrunchies and of course the method I liked most is the one on Ikat Bag.  Now, me being me, I didn't measure the fabric, instead using the entirety of a bit of feels like? silk that was in the small yardage stash, destashed from a local doll person.  It works.