Ingenious uses for muslin cloths??

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Pregnant with DC1, and for some reason I've been inundated with muslin cloths as gifts! Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head.. Just wanted to know your crafty uses for them other than mopping up dribble and vomit!

Straining jam / syrups
Making cheese

Aside from all the baby related suggestions, I still use mine as cleaning cloths, the children use some as blankets for dolly, I keep one in my bag as an emergence hankie/cloth. Some are in the car incase we need to wipe anything. I’ve also used them to strain fruit-they’re v useful!

Roll up and put under enormous boobs to help get a good latch when breastfeeding.
Hold under boob to catch random milk spray when baby randomly comes off mid feed.
Rolled up and wrapped in u shape round baby's head for extra comfort at nap time..... Baby now 3 and still needs a muzzy at bedtime. Got to wean them off before no 2 arrives!

Please don't drape them over the pram in hot weather. It makes it into a mini greenhouse and is actually really dangerous.

Drape hood to handle so air can circulate underneath

Anything and everything - DS is 10 and we still buy them now!! There's always a muslin lying around in the Frangipani house

• cloths for wiping surfaces
• drying floors after being mopped
• napkins to wipe hands on during meals
• mopping up spills did to amazing absorbent powers
• snot rags lol

Ooh also makeshift ice pack when your a douche in a slip in the bath (don't ask!)

They are the best multi purpose item.

I would prefer a range colours or patterns so that I can keep track of bum muslin V face muslin in current usage. Eg. in the bedroom, which one is currently being used to pat bum dry after baby wipe and which one is for drool.

Really useful in cookery. There are lots of vegetables thar have a high water content that you need to extract and a muslin cloth is ideal. You can also turn yoghurt into philadelphia by straining it through muslin

Roll up and put under enormous boobs to help get a good latch when breastfeeding.

This is ingenious!

My daughter is 3 and a bit and I have only just stopped carrying a muslin everywhere.

Giant bib that covers everything. Just add a waterproof little one on top. Even covers your own lap if eating out with baby on knee. Much easier than washing clothes. Also breastfeeding cover, light blanket for warmer days, something to lay baby on, drying wet playpark equipment and all the other things already mentioned.

If they get horribly stained dye them a bright/dark colour with machine dye.

When weaning, use one to as a bib, then to clean baby's face, chair, table and last of all, the floor and then into the washing machine.

When baby is poorly - which will happen sooner or later - cut a hole in the centre of a muslin and the baby wears it as a poncho. It will help a little when there is projectile vomit everywhere

Mine are past the baby stage now so no need for drool catchers. I still keep a couple by their bedside in case of nighttime vomiting bugs etc.

Other than that...

straining jam, syrup and milk when making cheese.

Dampened, I use it instead of clingfilm when proving bread dough in a bowl. Also as a lid for my kefir jar.

I am also wondering if something can be made with them, as in clothes... some summer pyjamas maybe, with shorts and a boxy, sleeveless top? Has anybody run muslin under a sewing machine? Maybe reusable teabags?

Anyway I only came here for pictures of the bulldog wearing bandanas

Ooooh you guys are the best I'm now super excited to use them in all manner of ways Thanking you! Also debating whether my cat would entertain the idea of wearing a bandana... Watch this space!

Lie under babies head in pram / cot wherever to protect from sick
Throw over shoulder to protect from sick
Use as hanky
Wipe down wet playground equipment
Roll up and use behind babies head in sling, to give more support
Stick under bra straps and over babies head as a makeshift hood when in sling and raining
Sunshade on pram (also stops people stopping you in the street to coo over baby)
Can use to cover boob or belly when feeding if you care about that sort of thing.
Play peek a boo
Use as face flannel or to wash baby / keep them warm in Bath.
Dry babies bum
Use on public changing mats under baby
Put under baby on changing mat to keep them warm
Nappy, in a pinch (I once locked myself out of the house with no nappies on me - luckily I use cloth anyway so baby already had the waterproof outer on)
Stick in bra when boob starts leaking and you have forgotten to use breastpads

I am also wondering if something can be made with them, as in clothes... some summer pyjamas maybe, with shorts and a boxy, sleeveless top? Has anybody run muslin under a sewing machine? Maybe reusable teabags?

DM used to make us nighties out of old muslins.

Use them to lie baby on in cot, pram, bouncy chair etc. That way if Baby is sick it might only be the muslin you need to wash.

It's basically just a rag, really.

Our grandmothers were on the money.

A bit later on... but every mealtime I have a damp muslin to hand for cleaning mush off of babies face and hands, then giving surfaces a quick preliminary clean and then the splash mat... genius things! Which is good because I have loads and I never really used them in the early months as he isn’t/wasn’t a very sucky or dribbly baby!

*sicky!

Sleep with one.
Put it in your baby’s crib the next night. They will be comforted by your smell.
Have several on rotation.

Inflate some 'light up balloons'
Tie thread round the end bit and attach needle

Get your muslin cloth, draw on creepy eyes with market pen
Thread onto the balloon.
Hang in trees
Instant floaty ghosts for Hallowe'en

Also good for HotCloth Cleanser .

Fab at cleaning Windows. Yellow ones make great chicken wings to sew fethers on (Ds2 was a chicken in his yr nativity)

Its dangerous to use them as sunshades on a buggy