Velour wipes?

[Cherished]

Hi, I'm wanting to make some nice wipes and am wondering if anyone has cotton velour or bamboo velour ones? Are they a good fabric to make wipes out of and do they dry quickly?

[skybie]

thats all i use, theyre awesome and dry quick

[Cherished]

thanks skybie, do you have cotton velour or bamboo velour? How are you going anyway, you must have a nice bump by now

[luna moth]

I have some of each. They don't dry that quickly, but they're soooooooooo lovely to touch and feel.

[Cherished]

ohhhh now I don't know which to get, do they feel basically the same? Could you also use them as a prefold? I guess the perfect size for a wipe is much smaller than what a prefold would be but it'd be nice to be able to use them for either... like if I run out of other prefolds (ummmm ok so that's not likely) lol

[skybie]

some of each, cotton dries quicker.
not sure abt the prefold idea, never used them personally.
bump is growing nicely. he has a heart defect that will need fixing once he's born, but other than that all good.
i cant believe H is 6 weeks old!!

[luna moth]

You couldn't really use them for prefolds, I don't think, because they'r a little too small. You *could* probably use them for pocket stuffers, though, if you were desperate?
Both velours are a lovely fabric for breast pads, too, while you're at it! Cotton will dry faster because it's less absorbent. Bamboo feels divine though, so so so so lovely.

[Cherished]

Thanks girls, do either of you know what GSM the BBH's bamboo boosters are? I've come across 2 bamboo fleece's one is 280 and the other 400. Obviously the 400GSM would be the thickest/most absorbent. I guess I'll want to make the prefolds at least as thick as the BBH's boosters so I don't know how much fabric to purchase without knowing how thick it will be when it arrives. Am I making sense?

Skybie hon I hope everything is ok with bubs. You must be worried like crazy. You know you have all the BB girls for support though. I"ll be thinking of you xo

[luna moth]

The BBH stuff isn't that thick, it's just sandwiched together. That's only what I know from pulling some BBH stuff apart.

Also, bamboo shrinks a little when you wash it.

[Cherished]

hmmm so maybe it's 2 layers of the thinner 280gms put together. I've found some that is 430GMS and prewashed so maybe one layer of that would be think enough and I can then fold it either in half or thirds to make a prefold. Thanks for your PM too