How To Make Flannel Round Makeup Pads

These DIY Reusable Cotton Rounds are a great fashion to use fabric scraps and perfect to use on face or as reusable nursing pads, likewise!

Last fall, only earlier Christmas, my 12-year-old started sewing zippered pouches to sell at a local craft fair. After doing over 140 of them.. she moved on to baby blankets, then chapstick holders.

What started with piles of material paved the way for cloth scraps all over the business firm. Piled up on tables, scattered in tubs, and taking over my closet shelves. She is ever looking for ways to use up scraps. In efforts to reduce our waste consumption at habitation, she decided to make reusable cotton fiber rounds.

These reusable cotton rounds can exist used for face, or as reusable nursing pads. They are super like shooting fish in a barrel to make and a wonderful gift thought. If you have a immature teen learning how to sew together this would exist a fabulous DIY item.

Here'southward how y'all tin can make your own:

DIY Reusable Cotton Rounds

Making these reusable cotton rounds is as easy as obtaining cotton flannel (snuggle textile) and machining thread. It helps to pre-wash and dry your fabric so that it softens before you lot start working with it.

JoAnn fabric often has the cotton flannel on sale for $2.49/chiliad – sometimes even less. You lot can even find remnants in the fabric section for inexpensive, too.

You'll demand:

1/2 yard cotton flannel (snuggle) fabric – remnants work well as well
matching thread
sewing machine
optional: cotton batting (non required!)

Step 1: Wash and dry your fabric. A half m of textile volition make anywhere from 25-thirty rounds. Washing it helps soften the fabric earlier y'all start working with it.

Stride two: Use a regular mouth canning jar (for facial rounds) or a wide mouth canning jar (for nursing rounds), trace the rounds on the wrong side of the fabric with a pencil.

Tip: Fold the half yard of fabric with the expert sides "in", then trace your circle on the wrong side. When you lot cut, you'll cut 2 pieces at one time.

If you are using batting (not required), trace circles on those too – 1 piece of batting for every 2 cotton rounds.

Step 3: Sew the circles together with the incorrect sides facing each other. If you don't have a serger, use a zig zag sew together and stitch correct around the circle as close to the edge equally yous can. This will prevent them from unraveling when you wash them.

If you lot are using batting (again – it's non required), place the piece in between the 2 cotton fiber rounds similar a sandwich.

That's it!

And just like that, you're done! Put these reusable cotton rounds in your bath and use them in identify of your dispensable pads.

Use them to remove makeup or cleanse your face each morning/night
Place v-10 in a souvenir bag as a gift to a friend or family member
Or use them as nursing pads

Just toss in the wash once or twice a week (a mesh handbag would be dandy for this).

These DIY reusable cotton fiber rounds are quite a unproblematic project for a beginner sewer. .. but if y'all find this too challenging, don't worry. In that location are plenty of Etsy shops you can buy them from. Mitch N Run up is one of my favorites — she fifty-fifty makes handmade cloth pads too.