New nursing pad set up in Oliver’s Treasure Chest; my favorite set so far. Im trying everything in my power to not snatch these up for myself. And theyre my softest yet; made from gorgeous Anna Maria Horner Voile!
So pretty!
Available now and can do custom orders.
I am happy to announce that Olivers Treasure Chest is now in stores! In addition to having product in a local secondhand baby store, I also put product on the shelves of Eco Bambino! And its 100% organic product to boot! I hope I can grow a bit more with them and bring in more to share with San Luis Obispo.
100% organic nursing pads
100% organic wee wee huts
I have 2 sets of 7 pairs of nursing pads, 5 sets of single pair nursing pads, and 4 sets of three wee wee huts.
Im also in the process of getting a wholesale order from another local store involving 100% organic bamboo/cotton burp cloths! As soon as the details are ironed out and product is being made Ill keep you updated.
As some of you know, my honey is a professional photographer. He specializes in weddings and events, but can do a wide range of shoots. In fact, he shoots just about all of my photos for all of my Etsy shops. He is pretty talented!
The camera strap he was using was from my dads old camera from the 90’s that he gave to Richard. It was neat seeing the very camera that shot our trips to Yosemite and the Grand Canyon when I was a kid. So since the strap was from the 90’s and on a camera that weighs about twice as much as the one my dad gave him, it broke.
Tonight I sewed him a new one out of the very popular chevron.
I also got all of my product ready and packaged to be placed on the shelves in Eco Bambino. Im just waiting for my stickers and then Friday I’m dropping them off. So excited!
Eeeeek!
*Reminder! We are having a giveaway for the month of September to celebrate National Sewing Month! Anyone who comments in a post tagged ‘National Sewing Month’ will be entered to win! Please see our Giveaway section at the top of the blog for more information on the giveaway. Comment away!*
**I have since updated the design of the nursing pad and will correct {in bold and or/with asterisks*} what has changed. The reason for my design change is that they are now being sold in stores!!!***
Disposable nursing pads are convenient, but cost a ton of money! Even the cheapest ones are $6.00/box and if you spread that over a year you’re paying $72! You can save yourself money by making you’re own and being eco-friendly at the same time! Plus they’re really easy to make.
Here I will show you how to make a pair of nursing pads
Here’s what you’ll need:
-a piece of scrap fabric that is 100% cotton, I prefer organic – this is the part that will touch your breast
-a piece of 100% cotton batting, I prefer organic{has to be cotton to be breathable} – for absorbency
*a piece of fleece, I prefer organic – to ‘wick’ the milk from leaking through
*the fleece I got is fuzzy on one side and woven on the other. some fleece is fuzzy on both sides
-scissors
-pinking chears {not pictured}
-marking pencil
-a round plate or bowl that is 5-6″ in diameter
Take your plate or round object and trace around on the wrong side of the fabric, batting and fleece with your marking pencil
Cut out the circles
You should end up with two cotton fabric circles, two cotton batting cirlces and two fleece circles {one for each pad}
Take your circles and fold them in half, right sides together
Sew a straight stitch at a slight angle along the straight edge of the half circle to the top, starting about an inch down
Repeat with all of your circles, folding each in half
Trim off the excess fabric
Unfold them and stack them together like so
Fleece fabric, fuzzy side up, cotton batting, cotton fabric right side facing up
Sew a zig zag stitch around from the raw edge of the fabric, or if youre lucky enough to have a serger, serge the edges
Take your pinking shears and cut off the excess fabric
Repeat for the other pair
Tah dah; you’re very own pair of nursing pads. These are totally wash/dryable and pinking the edge {or serging the edge} will prevent fraying in the wash.
You can make more with just little scraps of fabric and have enough for a whole week or even two!
These will be featured in my Etsy shop at the end of summer so watch for them!
For todays project, I sewed up two pairs of nursing pads for myself
All organic too!
Two reasons I sewed these up tonight: 1. I was already sewing up a set for Eco Bambino and 2. I totally left the house today with out a nursing pad and was to be gone for 9 hours+ in another town!
Which brings me to showing you a quick fix {with a last resort option} to a no nursing pad dilemma. If you have found yourself with out nursing pads, this will definitely help in making sure you don’t wet your shirt and look stupid the whole day. It will also help you avoid whispers like ‘look at that dumb lady with all those kids. you’d think she’d learn with how many she has to not leave home with out nursing pads’ or ‘hey, that dumb lady forgot nursing pads. she looks silly with those wet spots!’ Ok, no; I didnt hear any of that.
Luckily I was able take the kiddos I was baby sitting down to the local fabric store!
I got 1/8 yard of organic cotton batting. You definitely won’t need any more than that – In fact, that whole strip made me 10 pairs tonight, including what I conjured up.
Look! Her name is Ashley too! But she doesn’t cut as well as me. {If you didn’t know, before I became a SAHM, I slung fabric at Birch Fabrics in Paso Robles}
Then we quickly went back to the kiddos house and I gathered these materials up
Cotton batting, scissors, tracing pen, and a bowl about 5-7 inches in diameter
Trace bowl on batting {two layers}
Repeat and cut them out. You should have four single layers of batting.
And you’re done! Put two layers in each bra and you’re saved!
You coukd also cut up an old terry towel or if youre a clothwipe mamma like me, fold a wipe over and use.
Now, if you can’t drop by a local craft/fabric store and you absolutely cannot be home or somewhere with old terry towels or clothwipes, then all you need to do is take two pieces of paper towel or two napkins {like, say you’re at Panera or something}, fold them so you have 2-4 layers, and stuff them in your bra. They’re not as soft and are kinda bulky, but they work! Trust me. Because I had done just that before I had the chance to walk out the door, which was good because I had two letdowns!
What have you sewn today?!
*Reminder! We are having a giveaway for the month of September to celebrate National Sewing Month! Anyone who comments in a post tagged ‘National Sewing Month’ will be entered to win! Please see our Giveaway section at the top of the blog for more information on the giveaway. Comment away!*
Happy Sewing!
Tomorrow I will be listing two new products in Oliver’s Treasure Chest. Here is a little sneak peek for you!
Nursing pads!
Let me tell you, these are incredibly comfy! I made some for myself {less the cotton fabric – I’m a money saver!}
I’m also adding these bundles of cuteness
Aren’t those patterns adorable? I love the Teeny Tiny Zoo by Alexander Henry!
I received a couple gifts today from a friend of mine that I’ve known for 23 years!
I love having a little group of crafty friends where we can all gift each other with lovely handmade things. And now that I’m all about baby items and gifts for mommies, it makes it so much easier since all of my crafty gals are moms!
I’m a lover of owls. I collect owl tchotchkes, fabric and more so its no surprise that she made this {for Oliver}
Owl quilt!
In each square the little owls are playing peek – a – boo
Plus a whole weeks worth of nursing pads 🙂
Thank you Cora!
❤
Strange title, I know. But those were the two main materials used in my two separate projects I worked on today.
First, I planned on making some washable nursing pads and construct a tutorial on them – fail. I’m still working out the kinks of my original cuts and need to perfect the pattern first before I hand my secrets over to the public. I used three layers of organic cotton batting and some cute fabric as the main fabric. I think I might omit the fabric entirely and just use the organic batting. My main problem; my cuts were too small resulting in a set of nursing pads that I feel don’t fully cover me. Another problem, that won’t be able to be remedied before I throw the tutorial up, is I do not have a working serger. Although the zig zag stitch works along with pinking the edges, its just not as great as a serger. But I’ll do what I can with what I have. So I will try and work on making bigger cuts and perfecting the pattern the rest of this week and will hopefully post a tutorial by Sunday.
Second project was a zippered pouch, but not like the ones I normally make. This pouch required about 10x more zippers!
The entire front of this pouch is zippers!
While browsing for a great nursing cover tutorial I came across this zippered pouch tutorial at Zipit’s Blog and decided to try it out.
She makes it look super easy and I pride myself on being excellent at sewing zippers, but let me tell you; sewing 10 zippers together isn’t as easy as it seems. Eventually I was able to stitch them all together and sew them on to an amazing Melody Miller scrap piece of fabric from her Ruby Star Shining collection.
I’m not 100% pleased with the pouch, but it was a neat little project to do. It is kinda cool and cute, but hers is much better constructed.
The blog I found this tutorial on is run by the girl whom I purchase all of my zippers from for my pouches. Over the past year I have accumulated over 100 zippers in an array of colors so now I am looking for new projects to use my zippers on. One I found is a zipper flower to use as a brooch or attach to a headband, etc. Will probably make one or more of those tomorrow.
If you have any ideas as to some new crafts/projects using zippers, please leave a comment and a link if available and I will try it out.
Hopefully I can get the nursing pad tutorial to you this weekend – just depends on how much baby Oliver will let me accomplish by then.
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