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Tweak says, "SHUT UP!!!"

Number Eight (notinorder) wrote in paradisocomm,
@ 2016-06-15 20:11:00

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Right, so, good. Glad to see that everyone's having such a good time this week. Yay sex, amirite?

But I was kind of hoping also we could have a serious conversation as a community. Because we are a community, right? We're not just a bunch of people gathering here to go our own ways, we're in this together and we need to work together to get things done. At least, that was what I thought when I agreed to come here.

So. Ruby said something about it last week, and I'm going to bring it up again this week. We have several projects ongoing, right? What's left with the medical center? If I'm right we have our first babies arriving in about two weeks and we need to be ready for that.

Also, someone was working on a sewer system, right? Were they sent home? Not glamorous work but I'm definitely willing to help with that.

What else? What else do we need done? What do we need to make this island the kind of place we all want to live?

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onearmedbandit
2016-06-16 01:30 am UTC (link)

We'd need safety pins for the diapers ideally. It's a little more than cutting, you have to hem them and how you cut the shape matters and the size of them. We'll probably want some type of wrap type thing for people to carry their babies in. I've never made that but maybe some of the women have? We didn't really do that in my time. We had the babies in the dresser drawers taken out and put on the floor with blankets and padding in them. Then they slept with their siblings or the parents when they got too big for the drawer.

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chapelrn
2016-06-16 01:34 am UTC (link)

I'm from the future so I wouldn't know how to make a cloth diaper but if someone showed me, I could do it. We can figure it out. I know what you're talking about with the slings, there might be some women here who've seen them enough to be able to figure out a basic pattern. We didn't have those in my time either, what we had was a little more like a backpack and wasn't cloth at all.

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onearmedbandit
2016-06-16 01:39 am UTC (link)

Maybe we can ask Arva for some safety pins for the diapers. I don't know what we'd do instead. We don't have nearly enough fabric to do too much. If you can knit, that's what people used to make the hats, blankets, and booties. We'd sew the gowns and shirts and then my gran would knit the baby hats, blankets, and booties. Same for our own winter gear.

We just carried the babies in our arms mostly. Didn't have money for a pram or anything. So I don't know about the wrap things, I saw them in modern times, they look useful.

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	chapelrn 2016-06-16 02:00 am UTC (link)
	That might be our best bet. I can't think of a way to make pins. I can knit so if I had some yarn, I could make some things. We've got a little time before the first babies are born and then I believe everyone else conceived recently so that gives us three months. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	onearmedbandit 2016-06-16 06:18 pm UTC (link)
	I'm working on some diaper patterns this afternoon if you want to come by and tell me about the needles. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chapelrn 2016-06-16 06:20 pm UTC (link)
	Sure! I'll be glad to do that. Where can I find you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	onearmedbandit 2016-06-16 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	I'm outside my shelter that's on the far west side of camp. It's rock with mud covering the rocks. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chapelrn 2016-06-16 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	Oh okay. I've seen it, I know where it is. I'll come by this afternoon. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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