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Reusable menstrual pads

Tutorials, guides, and photos for sewing your own cloth pads. This section collects my experiments, fabric tests, and step-by-step sewing methods to build your own cloth pad stash.


Corky is holding a reusable menstrual pad with the wings snapped closed.

Close-up of sewing a cloth menstrual pad on a sewing machine, with the needle positioned directly over the drawn sewing line on the back of the topper fabric.

Sewing Line

Close-up of brightly dyed bamboo fleece fabric folded with visible fuzzy texture, showing soft pastel and orange tones.

Bamboo fleece

Hand holding two layers of 500gsm bamboo terry fabric showing the looped texture used for absorbent cloth pads and diapers.

Bamboo Terry

Corky holding a cloth pad with the wings snapped behind the pad.

Versodile

Close-up of pinking shears trimming the seam allowance on a cloth menstrual pad before turning it right side out, showing the zigzag edge that helps reduce bulk in curved seams.

Pinking Shears

Corky is holding a yard of bamboo fleece up while standing in her living room.

Prepping

Sewing the layers of a reusable cloth menstrual pad on a sewing machine

Make Cloth Pads

The front and back texture of 400gsm bamboo fleece fabric from Nature’s Fabrics.

Bamboo fleece

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