it took a few pages of etchings to work it out,
but here it is,
the skull mat
a 3mm doubled line makes a coaster or mini mat.
it holds its shape when left alone,
but can scrunch easily if, say, washing it,
so thanks to PatD’s share of using a soldering iron,
the mat is easily stabilised with a few dabs of the iron!
another thing i noticed is that it’s cord made in australia,
with yarns likely from japan, and when melted it doesn’t smell as badly or as much as the chinese polyester.
i’ve made a shirt patch,
just glued it on after buying all that fabric glue!
with a zipper tab (single-line version),
it definitely needed the melt welds so that it’s not pulled out of shape
p.s that’s a great idea,
halloween is not a big deal in australia,
so it didn’t occur to me as a theme,
but anyway i just tied a triple line skull, that’s the about size of a mask ready to go - !
definitely on the each of the two ends
and then the x shapes, under and above the ‘nose’ space.
that was the original plan,
but then it was so easy to also tack any and other convex ‘outer track’ points.
so i just about weld them all
especially for, say, a triple line mat,
as you probably noticed, the eye and nose spaces are so gappy there’s more movement than a usual mat
but tie, and see what you think
