Comments on: Homemade Thursday: draft dodger

By: Gloria

Gloria — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:45:00 +0000

Thank you!! I bought one of these on TV and love it. Wanted to make more myself and you saved me all the “figuring”. Really appreceiate you taking time to share this.

By: Tammie

Tammie — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:02:37 +0000

I was really surprised to see that no one mentioned it keeping out the heat too! im going to make this for that purpose! I live in Tucson, AZ and it gets Hot here. Everytime i walk by the front door I can feel the heat at my feet! so… Thank you for the wonderful instructions Dodger!!

By: kimc

kimc — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:15:26 +0000

Dorothy Leo,
Thank you for the input. I have added a Print button that should allow you and others to print only the portions you want, saving ink, paper and energy. I hope you’ll find it useful, and I hope you enjoy some of our other articles and posts.

By: Dorothy Leo

Dorothy Leo — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:29:58 +0000

I enjoy and welcome so many of the projects shown on this site, but it is so frustrating to not be provided with a “print” link as a way to print just the individual project without wasting all the ink and paper involved when one must also print out all the ads, other superfulous print and even every comment.

Consequently These instructions and patterns are not “free”, in fact they add up to a considerable expense and truly defeat the movement to encourage a greening of the environment.

By: Jacque

Jacque — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:28:03 +0000

Thanks for your comment. We have used cloth diapers off and on since Amanda was a baby, so it has been 19 years. We started using them exclusively with Isaac, number 6, and now we are using them for nighttime diaps too, instead of pull-ups.

This draft dodger is great! Jocelyn made one as a craft idea on Growing in Grace, but it is not double like this one. This one looks like it would be great for our drafty old farmhouse front doors. We have these beautiful, oval-beveled glass windows on two of the doors, with beautiful carvings in them, but they are SO old and drafty!
Love the idea for using the pipe insulation. I have been thinking of what else we can use besides the lumpy old socks we have! LOL
THIS would work great! Thank you for sharing the idea!
blessings,
J

By: Mother Hen

Mother Hen — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:53:14 +0000

Thanks for participating in Mother Hen’s Homemade Thursday. Come aboard the Ship. I’m handin’ out awards and your name is on th’ list!
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By: Shelbi

Shelbi — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:55:07 +0000

THANK YOU! You saved me from a few hours’ experimentation on my own -I have an old raggedy Vellux blanket that I meant to recycle into one of those, but I never thought about using the tube insulation. I was thinking of stuffing it with sand or rice or quilt batting –the foam tube would work MUCH better. Thanks again for sharing!

By: emilyg

emilyg — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:42:00 +0000

Very cool! I’ve been freezing here lately, now if only I could sew…

By: kimc

kimc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:50:27 +0000

Mother Hen,
You’re right. We saw it over the holidays at the in-laws.

Stacy,
It’s usually pretty warm here too, but on cool nights it’s nice to keep the cool outside!

By: Stacy

Stacy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:36:33 +0000

I saw those on TV and figured it would be pretty easy to make one- I’m glad you figured it out.
Granted here in Phoenix it was in the 70′s today, so we don’t really need one.