"In an emergency, anything is a diaper"

[Mynn]

So we're growing out of our NB prefolds (nicely decorated with flannel panels, sniff!) ... can I just sew them into a larger flannel "pocket" to make them bigger (kind of like just making them 2 inches larger on each edge) to keep using them? I've got like a metric tonne of flannel and might as well get some use out of it ...

[PheobNFam]

sounds easy enough to me.

My problem was less that they didn't fit, and more that they weren't absorbant enough.

[Kari_mom]

Go for it!

[love2bmom]

Post a pic when you get some made

[newlywaaz]

you could trifold them so the pretty side is facing out and use that as the middle of a larger prefold made out of the flannel you have... Or trifold them with something absorbant like microfleece in the middle and use them as a doubler... I suppose you could add a strip a couple inches wide to each end of the prefolds, but I 'm not sure it would be worth it in the long run.

[Mynn]

Huh, just make them out of flannel rather than try to extend the life of my newborns? That's a thought ... and I do have some hemp bits that could be made into middles ...

Now to actually find time to sew!