Make-Your-Own Frugal Cloth Menstrual Pads
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An environmentally-safe, economical alternative!
Are you ready to give up those expensive disposable paper pads, and switch to cloth pads - but worried about the cost of purchasing enough cloth pads?
(See article links below to why you should consider switching to cloth.)
Here's a Frugal Baby Tip for Mom!
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Round corners. Pile together.
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Cut out two wings 6 by 6" (15cm x 15cm), shaped sort of like like this: =O= - see picture on the left:
Fold each wing in half, and zigzag or serge stitch all raw edges.
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Looks something like this [_[)(]_], though the wings will be overlapping - see picture on the right.
Sew a straight seam, catching in the wings, 2.5" (6.5cm) from both long edges.
Either sew Velcro® on wings or use hammer-on snaps.
Fold the pad in thirds, and fasten the wings underneath the fold.
Now you have a super-absorbent 9-layer menstrual pad that opens up for easy washing and quick drying!
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Pad laying flat, with wings folded back over outer flaps of pad | Fold under one flap, the part under the wing | Fold under other flap. The center panel is the part that will be next to your skin | Back of folded pad, the part that goes next to your panties | Back of folded pad, snapped together |
Thanks to Catherine for this Frugal Baby Tip!
NOTE: This is a copyrighted design, originally designed by Catherine McDiarmid-Watt in 1993.
Photo credit: Catherine McDiarmid-Watt, on borntolove.com
All rights reserved
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More ideas:
🧵 Make Your Own Cloth Menstrual Pads Pattern🧵 How To Make Homemade Feminine Pads: Free Pattern List
🧵 Cloth Menstrual Pad Database | Free Patterns and Guides
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Menstrual Articles:
♻️ Menstrual Products and Health♻️ Feminine Ecology Notes
♻️ Women Taking the Initiative for a Safer Environment
♻️ Fast Facts from
Whitewash
♻️ Backgrounder: What Are Organochlorines? And Why Are They So Dangerous?
♻️ What Women Can Do to
Stop the Whitewash
♻️ More On-line Articles
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Category: Crafts, feature, Mom Clothing
Nice pattern. I like the length of your pads. I included it in a
roundup post on my website. Thank you!