Goods 4 Girls-- sanitary supplies....

[bunnyjadwiga]

After having spent a goodly amount of time thinking about sanitary supplies for menstruation in pre-modern cultures, I feel obliged to talk about the movement to donate new, unused, reusable sanitary pads for young women in developing countries. Crunchy Chicken came up with this idea:
http://www.goods4girls.org/

Great idea. However, I've never tried to make/use something of this sort, so the instructions she points to are driving me batty. I want something that tells me what kind of fabric and where I can likely get it, as well as patterns. I think this is a great idea, but I really am not in a position to research the entire reusable hygiene supplies movement before doing this.

If someone who is familar with these has clearer instructions or comments on a particular pattern that make them easier to figure out, maybe we can get a group together to make a bunch of these and ship 'em out. (P.S. what keeps them from twisting around, by the way?)

Comments

[thalionar.livejournal.com]

hi! diy_pads has a lot of folks who make their own (i'm not one yet), and mostly it looks like they use cotton flannel, terrycloth and microfiber, you can get the first two at any craft store, and microfiber can be found in automotive and hardware inexpensively.

I haven't made any, but I own a few that are closed by snaps instead of hook and loop tape. When you ask "what keeps them from twisting around" I'm guessing you mean so that the pad is on the underside of the undies? I don't know *what* keeps it from doing so, but I've never had a problem!