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Tutorial | How to Make Reusable Nursing Pads

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DIY Reusable Nursing Pads

Hello! I’m 24 week pregnant now. No picture of belly this week, but instead, I would like to show you how to make reusable nursing pads. The thought of breast feeding the baby kind of scares me. I never look at my boobs as a source of food for a human being, and I’m not sure what it’s like. I know breast feeding is really good for the health of baby, so I want to nurse. Making cute nursing pads is my attempt to reduce the intimidating factor of breast feeding..:) Also it saves a lot of money, instead of using disposable nursing pads.

These pads are super easy to make! I used cute cotton prints that I found at a quilting section of fabric shop, Okadaya.

You will need:
– flannel (you can also reuse flannel shirts or blankets if you have them!)
– Some fun cotton print fabric
– vinyl or thick zip lock bag (or shower curtain)
– bowl or cup, 4-5 inches in diameter (mine is 4 inches in diameter)


1. Using the bowl, cut out 4-5 inch diameter circles of flannel, vinyl, and cotton. For one nursing pad, you will need 3 flannel, 1 vinyl and 1 cotton circles. Vinyl will prevent leaking.

2. Pin the circles in the following order – 3 flannel, 1 vinyl and finally 1 cotton on top.

3. Sew them together with sewing machine. I first sewed with straight stitch and then serge the edge.

4. You are done!

P.S. Please link to this post when you use this tutorial or tag me on instagram (@vivatveritas) to show what you made.

Related post: How to make nursing cape

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Tutorial | How to Make a Cotton Sack Dress

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Tutorial | How to Make a Cotton Sack Dress

I love working on custom orders. Custom orders are a lot of work since it often requires me to make something out of patterns I don’t have, but give me fun challenges. It is an opportunity to expand different variations and patterns of work.

I was recently asked to make a modification of this dress. Her request was to keep the big front buttons, add rolled up sleeves, and big pockets. Before I made one for her, I made one sample to make sure the patterns work. It turned out the dress was pretty simple to make. The dress can be adjusted to fit different sizes easily.
Although I added darts for the previous dress, this custom order dress has none. It is all straight line sewing.

You need measurements of your:
♥ shoulder to shoulder measurement (16″ for me)
♥ from your shoulder to the top of the bust measurement (mine was 9″)
♥ desired length of the dress (in this case, I made it for 34″)

Material:
♥ About 1.50m of fabric
♥ covered button kit
♥ invisible zipper

Pattern:
1. Top panels
♥ Take your shoulder to shoulder measurement (mine is about 16″), and add 3″ each side. So the total width of the top front panel is about 23″.
♥ The length of your top front panel is the measurement of your shoulder to the top of your bust.
♥ Now your have a rectangle fabric, 23″ ×9″. Cut two (one for front, and one for back)
♥ Adjust the neckline, you can make it like boat neck, or round neck.

2. Skirt panels
♥ Take the length of your shoulder to shoulder measurement (16″), and multiply it by 1.5. In my case, this is 24″. This becomes the width of your skirt panels, front and back.
♥ The length of your skirt panels should be (your desired length of the dress) – (length of your top panel). In this case, 34-9=25.
♥ Now you have a rectangle fabric, 24″ ×25″.
♥ Gather the top of this skirt panel fabric, and shorten it (gather) so it becomes your shoulder to shoulder measurement (16″). Then sew this into the top panel, leave 3″ both sides for the sleeve.

3. Pockets, roll up sleeves etc.
This is your preference. Make many different variations!

4. Zipper should be added to the back middle, and I would cut the back top and skirt panels 0.5″ longer so it has extra seem allowance for installing zipper.

Please link to this post if you make a dress from this tutorial. Happy sewing♥

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