(I will place updates on this post as we crochet and test out the earsavers. Sometimes there is need to adjust the instructions depending on the experience of those using them.)
Yesterday, I came across the Facebook post of a friend. She had reposted someone’s crochet pattern for earsavers for frontliners.
It turns out that there are groups of crocheters who are organizing to crochet earsavers for frontliners.
To be honest, I never heard of earsavers so I had to do some googling. It turns out that earsavers are strips that you place at the back of your head to which you attach the face mask ear loops instead of looping it behind your ears. For our frontliners who have to wear masks for long hours, earsavers literally save their ears from the pain and discomfort of those ear loops.
In the US, most earsavers are plastic and disposable.That does not appeal to me because one, it’s plastic. Two, it is often single-use. I am trying to cut down on plastic waste. So crocheting one appealed more to me. Besides, I had so much thread left over from crafting days and they are actually beautiful two-toned ones.
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