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25. I made my own masks. Here is what I did:

I crocheted them from a pattern. I then took tightly woven material and cut it to fit the inside of the mask. It may not be the best there is, but it seems to works better than having no access to masks at all. The material I used to line the mask clings to the yarn (bed sheets soaked and washed in bleach and dried) and can be reused over and over. I have about 7 of these masks and keep the liners either washed or with cutting up and old bed sheets, just dispose of them after use.

Here is the crochet pattern:

Crochet pattern has been altered by me to be made much larger by the use of a J-hook (I crochet rather tightly) and by adding 2 rows of single crochet around the sides after the last row in the pattern:

http://myyarnspot.blogspot.com/2014/09/my-first-pattern-and-blog-post.html