Hi All,
Hope you are all well. It's been a long time between posts, however I have been keeping up on what's been going on round here in parts - time permitting *lol*.... and we now have #2 on the way due 1st week August 08!
Ok - just to update, in the end I purchased microfibre towelling, microfleece and french terry hemp fabric.
I ended up making pockets nappies out of the existing ffies. A bit of work but that was the best option in the end of making the best out of what was gifted to me.
Pocket inserts:
x3 layers microfibre towelling (contoured shape)
+ x3 layers hemp terry (rectangle centre strip)
+ 1 layer microfleece (this was put at the back of the nappy - contoured shape)
Insert was snappied to the back of the inside of the nappy.
With the different fabrics I overlocked the microfibre layers together separate from the layers of hemp terry and then just sewed a cm or 2 dart across the top to hold them all together instead of sewing them as one chunk. I found that by
not sewing all 7 layers completely together into one insert helped with drying time as the air was able to circulate as such between the layers and the most that had to dry was 3. Gosh, I hope that makes sense *lol*...
Other pocket inserts I made were 6 layers of microfibre towelling + 1 layer microfleece as well as the microfleece liner (ran out of hempterry *lol*) and same concept above about sewing them together.
Liner used:
x1 layer Microfleece. I actually cut this much larger than the contoured insert.
I've been able to use the same inserts in the larger nappies also, saving me more $'s. I have a good 20 terry nappies still in packaging intentionally left over that haven't been 're-engineered' *lol* or used, so I will see how I go with #2. Given it's the opposite flavour to Morgan he may be a completely different poopadooper-wee'er!
Above is just what worked for me and may give some ideas as I know I found it quite overwhelming getting my pregnant brain around all the lingo and gathering ideas and info on what others were using/making/what worked and didn't etc before she was born... Of course each bubba is different and what may work for some some may not for others.
Cheers,
L
