I think I’ve finally perfected my pad pattern!! When I can get to a scanner, I’ll post a pattern. For now, I’m going to post a tutorial on making this one.
You will need 3 layers of terry cloth for the center of the pad.
1 layer of waterproof material
2 layers of flannel for the top and bottom
Stack the material in this order. 1st layer is 1 flannel piece wrong side up. 2nd layer is the waterproof material, waterproof side down. The next 3 layers are the terry cloth. This is the “sandwich”.
Zig zag stitch all around the pad “sandwich”, just around the terry cloth pads (don’t go around the wings yet, just the terry cloth center panels).
This is what it looks like after you’ve done the zig zag around the terry cloth.
This is a close up. I would suggest going around the terry cloth at least 2 times in zig zag stitch.
Place the last piece of flannel on top of the terry cloth, right side facing up. This finishes the “sandwich”. I trimmed any mismatched areas and then zig zagged all around the pad, wings and all. I zig zagged around the pad twice. Then I straight stitched between the terry cloth center pad and the wings. This makes the wings fold easier and makes the pad look neater overall.
This is what the finished pad looks like.
This is a close up of the final zig zag stitching.
This is a picture of the pad with the wings folded in.
This is a picture of the pad all folded up for storage or travel. For travel, I will store them in zip lock bags.
Aug 22nd, 2007 at 2:07 am
Hi Susan - looks good and so pretty !
The last 8 years I have been using the organic wemoon pads- and there are great
- but making your own ones must be very satisfying.
Instead of terry - bamboo or hemp might be useful
- they soak up quite a lot of liquid and is less bulky than cotton.
Only bad thing is that it takes a while to dry !!!
After I have started to use the wemoon I have had no rashes or UTI ´s -that used to be a pain in the…
every month after a day or to they came back- not any more!
Aug 24th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
That is really cool, how you posted this, not to mention the product is awesome. Looks soft and comfy.
Ingenious!
Best,
Karen
Aug 26th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Your gorgeous little moon pads remind me of the first time I started using ‘rags’ again. I was twenty two. The feeling of squeezing the bloody soaking water out as I put them in the washing machine was surprisingly very enjoyable. I felt like I had my life in my hands again and I loved feeding my plants my nourishing body. The body of Christ. Funny but my moon cycle evened out to a perfect 28 days. In my early twenties, doing this and posing nude for art classes, did much to undo the damage done by media, friends and female family member’s dumping shame on my body and my sex.
Sep 16th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Wow you make your own pads! Well I shouldn’t be amazed because when I was short of I cut of the sides of my son’s disposable nappy. That was a very fat fit but I wasn’t leaving the house with it. Maybe you could start a business. For the moment I content myself with the pads from my organice shop and tampons for days when I’m wearing something slim fitting.
Cheers Christy