Slumber is serious business when it comes to health and maximizing your beauty sleep. Artist, illustrator, and maker Sanae Ishida shows you how to whip up an easy and luxurious sleep mask. Learn how to use a template to cut your fabric pieces, work with fusible fleece, and sew the curves of your sleep mask with a sewing machine. A simple strip of foldover elastic provides a comfortable fit around your head. The best part of knowing how to DIY a sleep mask is how easy it is to tweak the shape to your liking, and you’ll have so much fun making more in a variety of colors and fabrics, whether they’re for special gifts or all for you.
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![Four sleep masks displayed on a pink background; two are furry and two have fabric patterns.](https://glensidepld.org/files/Sew-a-Sleep-Mask-2.jpg)
![Close-up of hands sewing a gray fabric piece on a table with scissors and paintbrushes in the background.](https://glensidepld.org/files/Sew-a-Sleep-Mask-3.jpg)
![Components of a DIY sleep mask, showing a grey fluffy mask, a grey fabric mask, an elastic band, and a pattern template.](https://glensidepld.org/files/Sew-a-Sleep-Mask-1.jpg)