Well it's been a very long road but we're finally here!!!
Joined up in 2006 thinking getting preggers and putting some cloth on a baby's bum would be a piece of cake ... what nieve little fools we were ...
After more poking and prodding (and normally NOT by my husband!
) than should be allowed, we got told that IVF was the ONLY option for us ...
So off to the IVF clinic we went ... only to discover that we'd FINALLY managed to do what comes naturally ... even after years of pills/potions/proddings and surgeries!!!
We now have a lovely little son and we just couldn't be prouder ... and I get to finally delve into the addictive world of cloth!!!
Now I "was" going to make a whole heap of MCN's ... have the moolah
, have the sewing expertise, even have the pattern (wee wakka with gussets).
However in my research I've noticed that some patterns don't work on some body types, some babies don't like PUL or FOE, some aren't absorbent enough, others are too absorbent and therefore take days to dry, the elastic in them can "go" with multiple washings, they can get expensive with all the extra bits and bobs you need to buy and so on and so on.
Now to be perfectly honest I'm far too lazy to be fiddle f@rting around and wasting time, money and energy with mountains of mock ups to get it right, and even if I do get it right, who's to say that they'll work equally well on the next bubba we have?
So we've (Ok I lie, I'VE decided, hubby couldn't care less as long as we're not forking out for disposables anymore!) to go down the flat road, and thought I'd just make up a heap of bamboo flats and need some of your sage advice.
I was thinking of using the Snaps Australia bamboo fleece ... it seems to have twice the gsm (grams per square metre) of bamboo towelling, so I'm assuming this would mean that it's thicker and thirstier???
As it is about 400gsm would doubling it over be too much??? I wouldn't want to go any thicker than double, as we live in Tassie and quite regularly get fortnights of torrential rain, we don't have a dryer and don't really want one!
If I was the ultimate in lazy (and I so wannabe
) and just cut widthways, folded it over and sew around the edges, I'd get squares of about 70cms ... is this too big?
How "stable" is bamboo fleece anyhow??? If I doubled the fabric and sew round the edges, would "quilting" the layers together with some fancy sewn design be enough?
How would I fasten it? Would snappies work? I don't mind using old fashioned nappy pins if need be, mind you I'm pretty handy in the crochet department and have quite a few knitted/crochet nappy covers/pants patterns, so finding one tight enough that could hold the nappy together without any fastenings would be a breeze.
If you've made it through the ramblings of this new nappy nut then you deserve a medal ... or at the very least some chocolate and the nappy you've been lusting for ....
Eagerly looking forward to your replies ... would like to get honest opinions from all quarters ... the good, the bad and the ugly ....