sounds like lack of respect for your time and effort. not a great friend..sounds like more of an acquaintance. You have a right to require payment for your worth. She has an option to buy online if she can find any. She might think she is doing you a favor giving you money, but when a dollar amount gets attached to your efforts, it becomes more of a burden as opposed to enjoying an act of love and goodwill.

Tell her you reconsidered, and will trade the masks for them coming over and painting a few rooms of your house. While you sew, they paint, and when you're done they're done.

I made masks out of hepa vacuum cleaner bags. They are N99

I've been making them for myself, as I work in a hospital. I have found that taking 3 christmas ornament hangers and twisting them together makes a serviceable nose piece. Just a suggestion for the mask makers. Stay safe, yall.

Well now I feel badly. I did not pay anywhere near that amount for the masks I ordered from friends.

Good for you for being up front about the costs you incur.

Can i order two hundred please. LOL

At the risk of putting a downer on things, if you charge someone for a mask, and it doesn't offer the protection hoped for, you would be making yourself susceptible to legal action. A little caution might be in order here.

Very good honey a wonderful woman here makes them for police and healthcare workers, she sent me some for working on Delaware reserve medical corp

You are doing great custom work. People have no idea how long it takes or the cost of doing any work at all. I sat down one day with several others at lunch and figured out that we should charge about one-hundred dollars for the first time we turn a saw on. This sounds a little much, but one has to think about the time it took to figure out what the customer wants, the quality they want, then one has to get the material and get it to the point where the saw can be turned on just to make the first cut. Then if something bad happens insurance has to be thought of. My mother used to make all my shirts, she would buy the material, cut out the parts, sew them together, you know the process better than I. She loved doing it and I told her many times that I appreciated her efforts and the money spent. I sat down with her once to figure out what she would have to charge to make one shirt and we cam up with about one-hundred dollars, She made them six at a time and it took a day. She said the most expensive part was the buttons, she put an ad in a sewing magazine and received about fifty pounds of buttons, some correctable. I know what it takes to do what you are doing, thanks from the bottom of my heart.

I would just give the total including the cost of material. If they don't want to pay it, then don't make them.

I have made 200+ masks so far. I decided on what the cost would be per mask and that factored in the cost of materials and labor. I wouldn’t have them itemized as separate costs. The only thing I have added is shipping if I sent them out of state.

It is easier for people to know one amount up front. It’s up to me to determine what that amount should be and up to them to determine if they want to pay it.

If someone wanted some specialty pattern that was more, I would consider special pricing for them and tell them so up front. That has come up as an issue, though. People just choose from what I have available.

Six times $20 isn't $110. She thought she offered you plenty. You didn't. That's business.

It's not like you're charging for labor.

People suck, always wantin' somethin' for nothin'..

Just tell them you no longer have any material and have looked but can not fine any replacements.

That's what I'm wearing in my picture. "Mask made out of thin air." (If anyone asks.)

(Kidding! That pictures like 2 years old now? but the same amount of gray hair in the beard)

You may need to re-think referring to her as a "friend."

Yes, the unspoken rule is it should be free. By all means, charge for it, you are putting time and money in, you should at least get your material costs covered. Tell people how much it will cost, so there are no surprises.

IMHO asking for material costs is not outta bounds. What you might want for your labor and what you might get are 2 different amounts. THAT said, they are washable and reusable so they would save money over the disposable ones - if you can even find those.
I have no idea how many masks you can get out of a yard of fabric. But I know for me since I can not saw well it would make me a very fussy person.

Sounds like you have a cool process. Any pics of your masks?

Some things are just not worth our time. I’m a writer, and I’d hate writing for a friend or acquaintance ... it would eat up all my free time. I’d have to charge a ridiculous fee to even consider it. I’m sure then they wouldn’t need my services. LOL.

Yup theres a reason very few people sew any more. Thanks for the reminder about how much it actually costs.

It sounds like masks you make are much higher quaility than avg. Maybe in a year people will understand the difference, but right now youre trying to convince people that 3-ply TP is worth more than single ply, when no one sees anything but the letters, TP.