…and a Bubba Jcustom order too!
All happened to be ordered or completed at the height of our 10-day winter flu saga.
Sewing was therapy during that very trying ‘cabin-fever’ time.
These Bubba J nappies now have a home in Narrogin WA
These ecoBumba nappies will go home to Australind WA very soon
Four little bundles of ecoBumba fluffiness one their way home to Woombye QLD
Which bundle would you love to take home?
Sometimes I’m very tempted to keep them all
We’re all feeling much better now, thanks for all your sickie and pamper-mummy tips and support on the Bean Sprout Bubba Facebook page.
I’m just now catching up with spring promo deadlines, the End of Financial Year paperwork and other necessary evils of running a fledgling business.
In case you were wondering, I’m happy to take simple custom orders for ecoBumba or Bubba J right up to around early August for mid-September delivery, to give me time to prepare for Little C’s arrival in early October (Baby #3).
The store will still be open for you to choose from the current range, and I will still be sewing but for in stock nappies.
In the mean time, stay as warm and as dry as possible, it’s been a rather cold winter this year.
I’ll be back with more pictures, nappy info, hints and tips, there’s so much to share, so little time!
In February I took part in a blog review promotion ‘Dumping the Disposables’ at Hip Little One, and gave away one Bubba J pocket nappy to the winner of the promotion.
tartankiwi was the winner, who resides in NZ.
She picked out this lovely print for me to make a large Bubba J Deluxe pocket nappy for her.
I overlocked the insert with matching brown thread, and used a combination of blue and brown snaps on the nappy, something that you’d be hard pressed to find in mass-produced nappies.
All in all it turned out simply lovely. I hope tartankiwi likes it!
NOTE: Simone at Hip Little One is a mother of twins and she reviews all things hip and trendy for her littlies, and then gives them away as prizes.
This was a package of 18 Bubba J Basics pocket nappies for a lovely customer in Perth.
So nice to be able to sew for someone in the same state as I am
This mumma only needed pocket nappy shells, and fell in love with the dusky pink PUL from a previous batch.
She also requested for microfleece inners instead of the usual microsuede liner, and also for some white nappies to be made up.
With all this in mindd I cut up numerous white microfleece and white PUL for the order and set them aside.
The dusky pink PUL had to be specially ordered in as it was not a current in stock colour.
It took a week longer than I expected to arrive at my doorstep.
When it did arrive, it clashed with market day preparation and a whole week of doctors’ appointments and speech pathologist assessments, so I could only work on the pink nappies after the week ended.
It took about 2 days to get this order sewn up, snapped, and expressed off.
I hope it has arrived safely before Easter long weekend.
I am thankful that this mumma has been very patient.
My elder daughter (who’s only 3) observed how the snaps were installed into each nappy and proceeded to ‘help’ me when I wasn’t looking.
I’m only glad she practiced on a nappy that was less than perfect that I had put aside to be fixed.
I have a few more orders for ecoBumba nappies waiting to be sewn up, I will blog them when I get some pictures taken.
Note: I’m happy to take custom orders for nappies that are not in stock, or suggestions on what prints/sizes to sew next. For fabric choices please check out the photo album at the Bean Sprout Bubba Facebook page.
Some of you know exactly what it entails and are nodding furiously. But I can guarantee most of you may not have even heard of lanolising, let alone use wool as a very effective nappy cover.
If I mention about using wool as a cover over an absorbant cloth nappy, people would look at me quizzically, and wonder what I’m going on about. It works extremely well as a nappy cover, due to the properties of the wool fibre itself, plus the added lanolin (‘wool fat’) in the wool.
Wool absorbs up to 30% its weight in moisture without feeling wet. Great for heavywetters at night, they won’t feel wet unless they outwee the nappy and completely saturate the cover.
Lanolin neutralises odours and protects the wool fibre from the wetness. It makes wool a very low maintenance nappying item: it only needs a wash and lanolising (replenishing lanolin) every 2-3 weeks or if whiffy. In between uses it just needs to be aired like all wool items should be stored.
The fibres are also hydrophobic (‘water-repelling’) due to the lanolin, a bit of an oxymoron hey… therefore whatever moisture it touches and absorbs would be transferred to the area of lesser moisture. In nappy terms, a wool cover would absorb moisture from an absorbant fitted nappy yet not feel wet, then transfer whatever moisture that is touching the inner surface of the cover to the drier outer part of the cover.
This property of wool, plus the inherent breathability of wool due to the structure of the fabric makes wool covers a cool option, even in summer. In fact, from experience, on a hot day the nappy under a wool cover dries out really quickly and keeps baby’s bottom dry.
Alright, so now we’re full bottle on wool nappy covers and how it works with nappies.
How do we care for them? Simple.
Hand wash with a little wool wash and warm water, gently squeezing the solution through the cover.
Let soak for 15-30min, then rinse in clean water until it runs clear.
Next step is to lanolise: melt a little lanolin in hot water, dilute this with cool water to make a warm lanolin soaking solution. Squeeze through and soak your cover in it for at least 30min, then remove excess water by rolling in a towel and dry flat in the shade.
A visual learner? Here’s a video I made a few months ago, washing and lanolising a handknit wool soaker.
On the shop front: Currently I still have some Bubba J wool nappy covers in medium and in small. The large size is sold out, and I intend to make them again after tweaking the pattern a bit following feedback from previous customers (especially around the legs). If you are after any wool covers and can’t find the size you are after in the shop, simply contact me and I will do my best to make you one or two or three.
I made another video the other day, with a bit of help from my three-year-old.
One of our best-selling products is the Bubba J Pocket nappy. They dry quickly as the absorbancy unfolds to a maximum of 2-3 layers, and are easy to use and care for.
Pocket nappies are a really easy concept to understand, but if you’re new to modern cloth nappies it may seem difficult to understand from words on a webpage. Which is why the video was produced to provide this information visually.
Here’s the video. It is a bit rough around the edges, and I am thinking of getting it redone when I get some spare time around Christmas time.
Check out the feedback on the Bean Sprout Bubba Facebook page. Thank you ladies for your valuable feedback, not just on the video but on product issues, requests for nappy prints and of course the positive encouragement that you give.
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