In my very last hurrah for my current job, I’m spending a week in South Korea. While the travel time is only 13 hours in total and not 30 hours I still want to be comfortable. So I made my own eye mask on the basis that I’m not likely to be upgraded to business class where they have the really soft and comfy kind of eye masks.
I was thinking about this during my trip last year to the Netherlands so I kept my eye mask to use as a model. Here’s how it went.
Firstly, I just traced around the eye mask to get the shape. I cut out two fabric pieces (right sides facing).
I used quilt batting for cushioning and cut that 1cm inside the fabric line.
I planned to layer the pieces then apply bias binding. To keep the batting in place, I basted it to one of the fabric pieces.
The next step is to put the elastic in place. Again, I basted this since I’d be machining one side of the bias binding down. I cut the elastic from the airline eye mask and reapplied it to this one.
I forgot to take a photo of the bias binding step so it we’ll jump straight to the finished product.
I could have gone for the usual kind of black bias binding but I remembered the soft, Nani Iro binding from cotton double gauze. Why not?
