make your own panties/trainers?

[Adasmommy]

I want to try my inexperienced hand at making panties and training pants (dd is 5 months). I'm going to ask in the sewing forum too, but wondered if anyone here knew:

A. if there are any free patterns out there and
B. what fabrics I'm looking for

I don't know fabrics well. I'm thinking I could use any cotton fabric, even old t-shirts or receiving blankets, right? For an absorbent panel in training pants (between two pieces of cotton), what would be best?

[ktmama]

I used a pattern like this one:

http://doityourselfec.blogspot.com/2...-trainers.html

but I made mine out of microfleece (for the outside) with three layers of flannel for the soaker and one layer of rip-stop nylon. I called them one-pee undies because they could hold one pee.

It took a bit of tweaking of the pattern to get it right but it was literally my first ever sewing project. Always remember to sacrifice your first attempt to Learning!

[dogretro]

The way you sew it is going to depend on what you are looking for in a trainer. I sewed a bunch of waterproof side-snapping trainers when dd1 was a baby. I used PUL fabric for the outer, organic bamboo velour for the inner fabric, and two layers of microfiber for the soaker. I came up w/ the pattern myself after drawing it out based on the shape of an open diaper cover & tweaked it as I sewed my first few pairs. I sent them all out to a WAHM to have the snaps put on. They worked really well & I am still able to use the couple larger pairs I made as swim diapers for dd1 right now (they are too tight to pull up and down on her now, lol). Finished, they resemble Daisy Doodles and Megaroos.