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    This document provides instructions for making reusable pads in 3 to 2.5 hours. It outlines the necessary materials, which include fabric for the covers and soakers, sewing tools, and snaps. It then details a 5-step process to make the pads: 1) collecting and preparing materials, 2) optional pattern-making, 3) cutting out fabric pieces, 4) stitching the covers and soakers together, and 5) attaching snaps to the wings for closure. Followed correctly, these instructions allow one to construct reusable menstrual pads from readily available materials with only basic sewing skills.

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    This document provides instructions for making reusable pads in 3 to 2.5 hours. It outlines the necessary materials, which include fabric for the covers and soakers, sewing tools, and snaps. It then details a 5-step process to make the pads: 1) collecting and preparing materials, 2) optional pattern-making, 3) cutting out fabric pieces, 4) stitching the covers and soakers together, and 5) attaching snaps to the wings for closure. Followed correctly, these instructions allow one to construct reusable menstrual pads from readily available materials with only basic sewing skills.

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    Making Reusable Pads: Learning Guide

    Uploaded by

    Kathy Mae Daclan
    This document provides instructions for making reusable pads in 3 to 2.5 hours. It outlines the necessary materials, which include fabric for the covers and soakers, sewing tools, and snaps. It then details a 5-step process to make the pads: 1) collecting and preparing materials, 2) optional pattern-making, 3) cutting out fabric pieces, 4) stitching the covers and soakers together, and 5) attaching snaps to the wings for closure. Followed correctly, these instructions allow one to construct reusable menstrual pads from readily available materials with only basic sewing skills.

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    Making

    Reusable Pads
    LEARNING GUIDE
    2 TO 2.5 HOURS:
    ESTIMATED TIME
    TO FINISH 1 PAD

    www.deped.gov.ph
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: WITH
    SUPPORT
    We thank the FROM: Implemented by:
    DepEd Regional Office VI
    and the Division of Cadiz City
    for their support.
    1a Collect materials
    TOOLS & MATERIALS

    snaps
    needle metal or plastic
    tailor’s chalk threader thimble (size 14/16/20)

    pencil and scissors pins & pin cushion tape measure hand sewing needles fabric pliers awl
    paper and thread to push the
    snaps together

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    1b Collect fabrics
    GUIDELINE:
    COVERS: SOFT FABRIC SOAKERS: ABSORBENT FABRIC NUMBER OF SOAKERS

    Cotton prints Bamboo, hemp, cotton flannel, 3 LAYERS


    cotton terrycloth – even old towels light to medium
    Cover for one reusable pad flow pads
    – 1 topper and 1 bottom: 4 soakers for one reusable pad
    18 inches x 12 inches or 1.5 ft x 1 ft – medium to heavy flow pad:
    18 inches x 12 inches or 1.5 ft x 1 ft

    18 inches (1.5 ft) 18 inches (1.5 ft) 4 LAYERS


    medium to heavy
    flow pads
    12 inches 12 inches
    (1 ft) (1 ft)

    5 LAYERS
    heavy flow pads
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    2 Pattern up You can skip STEP 2 by looking online for free cloth pad pattern pieces.

    COVERS: EXTERIOR PIECE SOAKERS: INTERIOR PIECE


     A Stick your favorite pad onto a piece of paper.  A Measure the length and width of your pad.
     B Trace the outline of the pad onto the paper.  B Draw a rectangle of those measurements.
    
     C Dot 1 cm around the entire perimeter of 
     C C ut out your interior pattern piece and
    the pad outline. Connect the dots. trim the corners to shape the soaker.
    
     D Cut out your exterior pattern piece
    with connected dots as a guide.

    SOAKER PATTERN
    COVER PATTERN

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    3 Cut out
    YOU WILL NEED
    1 TOPPER, 1 BOTTOM, 4 SOAKERS FOR ONE PAD:
     A Stick your pattern to the fabric.
     B Trace the outline of the pattern.
     C Cut out.

    2 COVER PIECES:
    1 topper, 1 bottom

    ABOUT 4 SOAKERS
    See Guidelines above

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    4 Stitch it

     A  B  C  D
    Take one piece of the Stitch the soaker and Take the other piece of the Sew all the way around the
    cover and lay it face down; topper in place by sewing cover and place it face up cover with about ¼ of an inch
    the wrong side of the fabric around the soaker edges. and place the cover with from the edge. Stitch around
    should be facing you. Double sew the soaker. soaker on top of it. the outside of the pad
    Tack the soaker and cover Pin the layers together. leaving a 2-inch opening.
    together using pins.

     E  F  G
    Make tiny snips in the corners Turn the pad inside out through Stitch the pad to the opening
    and curves to make it easier the unstitched part, push out the where you turned the pad.
    for the curve to fold in. wings and the corners. You may use
    a tool or a pen to poke the corners.
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    5 Put snaps

     A  B
    Fold the wing. Poke using the “Awl”
    where the snaps should be placed.
    Attach the snaps to both wings.
    Press the snaps using fabric plier. 6
    Final
    NOTE: If you are using a metal snap,
    product
    hand sew these on the fabric.

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