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hi everyone welcome back to my channel today I'm going to be doing a tutorial

on these face mask adapters which I think are brilliant

now I'm not a fan of the crocheted face masks because I just feel they are

not suitable for the intent that they are supposed to be used for but I

thought these were brilliant these are actually adapters so that when you're

wearing a face mask you can take the ties from around the ears and actually

put them around here and it stops sores and things so a lot of healthcare

workers are really appreciative of these my friend Carol actually posted these on

Facebook and I just thought it was a brilliant idea so she's given me the

pattern so that I can do a tutorial for you I will leave a link in the

description box below because there is a Facebook group that she set up where you

can go across and get the written pattern and just talk to other people

making them as well so for this tutorial you will need some cotton yarn you can

do this in Aran or DK weights I will leave a link in the description box

below of this particular one that I'm using you will need some buttons around

two centimeter buttons I'm using these ones here again I'll leave a link in the

description box below you will need a three and a half millimeter crochet hook

a darning needle for sewing on your buttons and also two stitch markers as

well okay so remember all the links are in the description box below don't

forget to like this video and share it with your friends as well and let's get

making these for our precious health care workers who really need a little

bit of support right now okay let's get started so you want to go ahead and make

your Slipknot in whichever method you prefer but you also want to leave a long

tail ends and we're going to be using that to sew our buttons on at the end so

we're going to begin by chaining 15 so that yarn over and pull through yarn

over pull through and yarn over pull through now if you need this

to be a bit longer you can of course chain a little bit longer so chain as

long as you need for as wide as you want it to be just be aware that obviously

the starting chain is going to be slightly smaller than the whole piece

put together but you can adapt it is the point I'm making here but for this

particular one we're going to chain 15 so go ahead pause the video chain 15 and

meet me back in just a moment okay so once you've done your chain we're going

to go ahead and start working a double crochet so that's a UK term in the US

this is known as single crochet we're going to do this in the second chain

from the hook so you're not the one that's on the hook this is the first and

then this is the second so go into that chain and then yarn over and pull

through you'll have two loops on your hook yarn over pull through both of

those loops on the hook you're then going to take a stitch marker and mark

that very first stitch so I'm just going to go ahead and pop that in the top of

that stitch and then we're going to work all the way across the chain except for

the last chain so we're going to do double crochet into each stitch all the

way along so insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two so go

ahead work those double crochets or single crochets if you're in the US all

the way across until you reach that very last chain pause the video and meet me

back in just a moment so now you've worked those double crochets were then

left with that last chain and we're going to actually turn our work so we

can work around the opposite side of the chain now so you're going to go into

that very last chain and do three double crochets one two and three and out of

those three double crochets you want to go ahead and mark that Center stitch so

we've just done one two three I'll do the middle one and mark that stitch just

there now we're going to work back along this chain and we're going to be working

into the opposite the other side of the chain basic

so as we pull this apart here you can see that this is the chain that we've

just worked into and the next one is just here so we're going to leave that

tail end out because we're going to use that for sewing on our buttons and you

want to do a double crochet into each stitch all the way along so into the

back of that chain so go ahead pause the video work those stitches until you meet

yourself at the stitch just before the stitch marker so it will be the second

to last stitch just here so pause the video and meet me back in just a moment

now you've worked your way all the way along we're then going to do an

additional two stitches into that very last stitch because we've already done

one in there so we'll do one and two and that completes our end we're going to

remove this stitch marker now and move on to round two we're not going to join

with a slip stitch we're just going to work in a spiral so into this very first

stitch we're going to do three double crochets one two and three and then

we're going to work one double crochet into every stitch all the way until we

meet the stitch marker so you're going to work a double crochet up to the

stitch marker so the stitch just before pause the video work those stitches and

meet me back in just a moment so now that you've worked your way up to that

stitch marker you're going to remove that stitch marker and do three double

crochets into that stitch one two and three and then you're going to work one

double crochet all the way until you reach your very first stitch so go ahead

pause the video work your way around to the first stitch

of this round and then meet me back once you are ready

okay so I've met myself at my very first stitch you can tell because it's the

three double crochets what you want to do here is slip stitch into that first

stitch and chain one and snip off your yarn and then you can go ahead and pull

that out so we're going to use these tail ends for sewing in I'll just show

you this one first because we're going to do something slightly different with

this one you want to thread up your darning needle and then you want to

bring it through to the place where you want your buttons to go so I'm just

going to bring it to this section just here so that I can bring that round to

the front like this I can place my button on and pull through this

obviously only has two holes the button yours might have four depending on what

size button or what type of button you choose but you just want to sew that on

like so so that it sits at the end of the adapter and then go ahead and sew

that in so I like to put a little knot there and then I use my rule of three

for sewing ends in so I go one way back the other trying to catch different

fibers this is cotton yarn so it's quite easy to go within the fibers

and then back the other way once more so again trying to catch different fibers

you can go ahead and snip off and then we can do the same with this one this

one's sat in the right place this time because that's where the chain started

so you can go ahead and sew on your button in exactly the same way

so there you have your face mask adapter as I say I think these are brilliant for

healthcare workers they can still wear the proper masks but it helps them out

by taking the elastic off their ears so that they don't get such sore ears please

share this with your friends don't forget to take a look at the Facebook

group in the description box below thank you so much for watching stay safe and I

shall see you again next time bye