Easy peasy: Cloth nappies inserts from old towels

First of all buy pinking scissors or zig zag scissors, then choose your towel, in my casa kitchen towel made of thick cotton and cut some stripes as long as you wish to make your nappy insert. You can cut them in a straight rectangle like I did or in an anatomical shape like a pad.

Then with the sewing machine following the line of the cut, 1cm away from it, more or less, sew two or more layers together.


Cut the eventual eccess fabric with the pinking scissors after sewing the borders.

There you go, ready to use (if the towel was clean of course...) =)

REUSABLE NAPPIES PART TWO

Almost a year has passed, full of events, and busyness, at first one does not realizes how fast your child grows and the evolution process he goes through is very much taking time that was before dedicated to other activities. Less than a year ago he was still a baby, now he's a walking-almost-running toddler that is almost stronger than mummy here and has almost a full set of theet. Still using mixed nappies unfortunately as mummy, having to work as well as taking care of him, the house and daddy, could not make more washable nappies but 2 and together with the ones received as gift, they are still not enought for a full cycle of washing-drying-wearing-washing. But at least we do not make as much environmental damage as other people using solely disposables.
We're on the right road and will get there eventually. Soon enough my little one will hopefully also be out of nappies although EC is not an option at the moment giving the lack of possibility to monitor him closely enough (mummy works in the afternoon and daddy works in the morning and all 3 of us are doing all sort of things like tidying, playing, washing the dishes, sleeping, eating etc at different times).
But let's go back to the main subject, how the nappy was finished.


After the elastic part was done, i procedeed with applying, on the oustide of the nappy and between the plain and the patterned fabric, a layer of plastic cut out from a frozen mixed vegetables bag (obviously washed properly and dried) in order to have a barrier for the pee not to come out and then finished applying the outside patterned fabric in order to have a rather good looking nappy.

I'll be posting the picture as soon as i find it in my immense computer memory... LOL

Another nappy I made was out of a small cotton towel with some added velcro and was very much simpler. With this nappy I can use a number of inserts that I use with the other nappies and also those created by me with recycled fabric such as soft cotton, cotton flannel or cotton towel. I always need a proctective plastic or microfibre pant on top as this very simple nappy has no other protection for pee.