Okay.

[conuly]

So how much fabric would I buy, to make one pad?

Assume it's quite large (I tend to leak front *and* back) and that it has enough liners in it for a very heavy day. I can estimate down from that, but it's hard to estimate up.

So how much flannel for the top, and something waterproof for the bottom, and what's good and cheap and how much of whatever-it-is for the middle?

And all these patterns want me to serge. Can I serge with a sewing machine? Can I get by without serging? What *is* serging?

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[gingembre.livejournal.com]

The option you're talking about (and I don't think it's the same as what your mom suggested which is great for this project) is using a French seam, which is essentially sewing the seam, tucking it back into a pocket of itself and then sewing closed the edge of that pocket. It is a bit time intensive but really much MUCH easier than my above description makes it sound lol. (I should know - I used it on my very first sewing-machine project ever!)