Yaay - lots of reconstructed cloth nappies!

In Nappycino, I issued a sewing challenge to make a cloth nappy made out of recycled materials. Oh my, some of the stuff people are coming up with! They are amazing! I particularly liked Marnie's creation - making a pocket nappy out of a Size 4 t-shirt her older child has grown out of. The sleeves became the wings of the nappy and the neck hole the pocket opening. Very clever. To check out everyone's creations, this is the actual thread with everyone's stuff: Our Reconstructed Nappies Thread

I'm also going to cross-post my own creation here:


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Yaaay I actually finished something EARLY! Anyway, here's mine. Construction is:

Outer:

• Acrylic Machine Wool - former single bed blanket and washed in hot prior to sewing just in case it was going to go all weird on me - it didn't.


• 2 Layers of Polar fleece - scraps from a former ugly jacket which got turned into a wet bag.

Inner:

• 3 layers of denim - scraps from a former pair of jeans I had cut up and made into other stuff


• 1 layer of cotton - scraps from a second-hand t-shirt


• 1 layer of microfibre - from cleaning cloth we don't like touching cause microfibre felt "icky" to touch.


• 1 layer of polar fleece - scraps from a pair of fleece pants I made a long long long time ago.

Elastic was recycled from a project that went wrong. Touch tape were scraps from Kristymumto3 - Thanks Kristy!!!

Sewing stuff - its my first shot at making my own pattern!! Yep, I made it using my daughter's undies as a first template then modified to have wings, widened the crotch etc etc..... only problem was that I forgot all about seam allowance. So it ended up a lot trimmer than I wanted it to be. Ooops. Well, at least it fit. Its been on now for 1 hour and no wees yet. I want my son to wee in it so I can see if it works!!!

ETA: Well my son's wee'd in it and the nappy held it all in! Admittedly it was only a medium wee but I'm just so stoked that the whole thing held up! Wooohooo!