Mama pads - will this work?

[mackysmama]

Hi! I am VERY new here (the last time I sewed was junior high home-ec!) and am trying to make some wool longies and some mama pads.

I searched the archives and found some great patterns for mama pads. I was going to use felted wool as the waterproof baking but I don't have enough. So, can I do this instead...

top layer of microfleece
layer of flannel
layer of thick part of chinese prefold (or two for heavy flow)
two layers of microfleece for the bottom

Question - will the bottom layers of two microfleece serve as a moisture barrier? I know malden mills 200 would be better but I don't have that either. So, does double microfleece equal regular fleece?

Thanks!

Heather

[xenabyte]

If your machine can handle sewing that many layers together, I'd try it! I change often, so I've never had a leak issue, even without 'typical' barrier layers... I'd just sew up lots of them, so you can afford to 'change often'.

I'm not sure if two layers of micro would equal 200wt, there are 100 wts that are similar to the micro, but are a bit thicker and two layers of that would. But even 200wt can 'leak' if left too long or compressed enough.

The only really good wt that I know works great (without special coatings to stop moisture wicking) is 300wt (which I have on the bottoms of some of my pads).

I think if you have all those other layers you should be fine!