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Flannel Fabric for Cloth diapers?

JCM083009JCM083009
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Hi ladies :)

Anyone know of anything I could make w/ flannel for something to do with cloth diapers.  DH has this (newly found?) love for monkeys, which I am not so much a fan of (or any themes or animals in nurseries really), but I did find this adorable "sock monkey" fabric that I think is pretty cute.  I told DH I would order some and make wipes out of it (w/ terry cloth on the other side).  He was sad that his beloved monkeys would be used for such a thing and asked if there was anything else I could make out of it... 

Is there anything else CD related I could make? or could I use it to make some sort of blanket? I'd think it'd bepretty easy to possibly make a swaddle blanket of it, but I am not really sure - any cool ideas to fill DH's monkey void? ;) 

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  • mjonette@gmail.commjonette@gmail.com
    If you are making diapers, you could use it as an inner on a pocket dipe, or use it as an outer for a fitted. That's all I've got...:)
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  • RichInLoveRichInLove member

    Make a baby quilt with it! :)

     

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  • JCM083009JCM083009
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    Make a baby quilt with it! :)

     

    The more I think about it, the more I think about doing something along the lines of a blankie... not sure about an actual quilt per say (that seems hard, I am a new sewer!) but if you were going to make a blanket out of flannel fabric, would you use another fabric with it? Would you just "stuffing"? 

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  • RichInLoveRichInLove member

    You can make squares of it and then get a coordinating fabric for the other square. They have pre-quilted backing you can get and then instead of 'quilting' it, you can get some yarn and pull it through each square to make it quilted... I bet you can find simple instructions online.

    If not quilting, I'm not sure what you can do with it other than just serge the edges?  I have some flannel baby blankets that are just two sided and the edges are sewn together.

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  • GladToBeMrs.SRSGladToBeMrs.SRS member

    I wouldn't even bother making a quilt.  I'd just buy a yard and a third, make a square, and sew a big receiving blanket.  All you have to do is hem the edge.  Big receiving blankets like this are fantastic for swaddling. 

     

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