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| Sewing Circle Tips; make items for Baby Care |
Nappies or diapers are needed all the time. These are items which are invaluable for use in baby care. If you have started a Sewing Circle, or are considering starting a Sewing Circle, this is an item you can sew which is always in demand. Also, diapers wear out or reach the end of their shelf life when baby becomes independent. So it is an economically good product to make.
When cutting the pattern, remember that the sewing pattern does not have a seam allowance (area for material where you sew the seam) added. Draw around the pattern with your pen or pencil, then on your pattern add a quarter to half inch seam allowance on it (half an inch is 1.27 centimetres). Cut your pattern around the seam allowance. You can make your pattern on a piece of brown wrapping paper or dressmaker's pattern paper. If you are in a squatter camp, your nearest local cafe/ supermarket store will be able to give you brown or white paper from new paper bags. Or you can get a new diaper/ nappy from a store, unpick the seams (take the stitching out) and use it as a pattern.
Nappies/ diapers can be used in the following ways;
- in gift packs for squatter camps, ante-natal and post-natal clinics in underprivileged areas, as a gift for a new mother or mother-to-be. My mom taught me how to make this gift pack. Get a small plastic baby bath in which you can bath the new baby. Place a pack of diapers/ nappies neatly folded in one half of the bath. In the other half, put items such as hypoallergenic baby wash and baby shampoo. Place a few items for the mom, such as a lovely face wash, light face moisturiser, breast pads, a hypoallergenic bath or shower gel, and a little treat such as a pretty lipstick. Wrap the bath with gift wrapping paper, and place a card from yourself with a little bow on the outside. If funds allow, and the mom is in hospital, add a magazine or interesting book.
- or you can donate piles of cloth diapers/ nappies which have been hygienically wrapped to a squatter camp/ favela/ slum/ shanty town committee for distribution as needed to the mothers in need
- or you can sew and sell diapers/ nappies from your new home industry Sewing Circle
- you can donate boxes of bought nappies/ diapers to a nurse/ social worker in an underprivileged area working in squatter camps/ favelas/ slums/ shanty towns
An excellent tutorial has been made available on Youtube by Ms. Caitlin. Please find the link;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh84LK19VNE
Ms. Caitlin has a link on her tutorial to a downloadable free diaper/ nappy pattern by Ms. Rita at this blogspot;
http://handmadebyrita.blogspot.ie/2007/10/httpwww.html
The link on Ms. Rita's blogspot to her pdf dowloadable 'Rita's Rump Cover pattern' is
http://www.mediafire.com/?eqhrvm9mjwo
With many thanks to Ms. Caitlin for her informative video and tutorial, and to Ms. Rita for her free RRP diaper pattern and instructions on her blogspot.
*Photograph taken by Catherine Nicolette. Please feel free to use copyright free for any worthy purpose
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