How to sew a blindfold

For guests relaxation a person needs darkness and silence. And if ensure quiet simply – it is sold in the drugstore ear plugs, then find a bandage for the eyes is much more complicated. But it will help to sleep on the road, protect the eyes from light of headlights of the passing cars will help not to Wake up in summer at six in the morning with the sun. To ensure a comfortable sleep, you can sew the eye patch yourself.

You will need

• - two pieces of fabric (one of natural fabrics, pleasant to the touch, the second – at your discretion);
• - needle;
• - threads;
• - braid;
• - scissors;
• pencil;
• - beads;
• paper;
• - elastic band;
• - fabric paint;
• - sewing machine (you can sew by hand).

Instruction

1. On a sheet of paper draw a pattern of the future dressing for sleep. To simplify the task, you can take your sunglasses and go. In this case, remember that the eyes should be broad enough and narrow glasses are not suitable as templates.
2. Take the scissors and cut out the resulting pattern. Now draw it on two pieces of fabric, pre-fixed with pins so that the pattern has not moved. To trace the pattern you need, departing from the contour of about a centimeter, you need to leave room for seams.
3. You now have two blanks for the dressing. Apply patterns to each other, wrong side out, and gently sweeps them, leaving the sides of cuts where you will insert the elastic. Gum should not be narrow, or dressing for sleep will slip off your head or cut your skin. Best of all, if you take a rubber band with a width of 2-3 cm.
4. Turn the mask right side out, insert the left cuts the elastic band, sew it, and then prostrochite all the product on the sewing machine. Remove the sheath.
5. Now you can show all their imagination. Decorate eye mask with embroidery, sew for her beads, glue applique. You can take the lace ribbon and sew it along the contour of the entire mask will work very nicely.
6. Popular blindfolds with a picture of them... eyes. Take acrylic fabric paint and carefully draw on the face of the bandage closed eyes, or, on the contrary, wide-open eyes that others do not have guessed that you sleep. Popular funny inscriptions on the bandages for sleep. This mask will serve as a great gift.