Someone to make inserts..
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Topic: Someone to make inserts..
Posted By: MissCandice
Subject: Someone to make inserts..
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 2:58pm
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Anyone here that can sew??
I dont want to pay for inserts as they cost heaps to buy so was wondering if there is anyone here that would make them for me.. i will supply the fabric.. Oh and whats the best material to buy? Im looking at greenbeans and the have hemp, hemp towelling, and hemp terry?? Oh and how many inserts would you get out of 1 metre? ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 3:32pm
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You won't want to just have hemp inserts..
Hemp holds a lot but takes a while to soak it up so you would need some microfibre inserts as well. Microfibre soaks pee up like a sponge, very quickly but doesn't hold as much. Can't really help ya on how many inserts you would get out of a metre. I guess that would depend on the size of the inserts and how many layers you were going to do. |
Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 3:35pm
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Hey,
Do they need to be made with more than one type of fabric? Like for example a layer of microfibre and a layer of hemp.. ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 3:38pm
| You can make them that way or you can just have the one fabric. I generally use microfibre inserts (3 layers) and hemp inserts (2 or 3 layers). |
Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 3:42pm
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oh that works.. il do that
thanks   ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 7:00pm
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I got 1 metre of microfibre from Greenbeans and my mum made me some before she left. I got 9 3 layer inserts and 6 2 layer inserts. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 7:12pm
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Awesum, i think i will get 1 metre microfibre and 1 metre hemp, just gotta find someone to make em.. ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 8:33pm
| If you are willing to pay postage I can sew them for you. Do you want 'single' inserts, or trifold ones? |
Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 8:37pm
i am more than happy to pay postage..  
ummm which are better? ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 09 September 2007 at 8:41pm
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I don't know if I would say either is better but kebakat had a point, hemp is pretty slow to absorb but awesome at holding the moisture in once it's there IYGWIM
A combo of the two fabrics is probably your best shot, which is easily done. |
Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 10 September 2007 at 8:24am
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ok well i can buy the fabric and just have it delivered straight to you.. do i get hemp and microfibre? or.. oh theres 3 kinds of hemp how confusing..
Thank you tho.. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 10 September 2007 at 6:02pm
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Flick me a PM and we can sort something out I'm sure
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