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How to Make Wool Soaker Pants From a “Felted Wool Sweater”

July 5, 2011 by Linda Lanese

The host of “The Sewing Dork” Blog has an interesting and planet friendly tutorial on making Wool Soaker Pants for little ones. From “The Sewing Dork”: “Wool Soaker Pants, aka Longies, are what Ma Ingalls was using before plastic diaper covers were invented in the 1970s. Wool has some amazing properties: it’s naturally anti-bacterial, it can absorb moisture without feeling wet, and best of all you just need to air it out between uses (unless soiled of course). You only wash it every 2 – 3 weeks. That’s my kind’a laundry! There are many different kinds of soakers to make – shorts, skirties, and pants. I plan to do tutorials for them all over the winter. Let’s start with the sweater arm pants”.

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