Have you made your own diapers?

Willow27 · 04-13-2012, 03:55 AM

I was gifted with a sewing machine for my birthday

I've found a couple of AIO cloth diaper patterns but wanted to know if any of you had a favorite pattern or fabric to use. I've also found PUL fabric and flannel online (my fabric store doesn't carry PUL or the aplix velcro, and I might as well buy from one location and shipping is cheaper than the gas to drive to the store).

Any tips?

MomtoJGJ · 04-13-2012, 04:20 AM

My favorite thing to do is to take a pocket diaper and use that for a pattern. Then I make a pocket diaper out of flannel and use whatever (prefold, insert, etc) to stuff it... this helps drying time immensely over my fitteds that I made.

I never had much luck with making true pockets or true aios... they always leaked. But I'm also not super talented.

Chaos Coordinator · 04-13-2012, 04:26 AM

Watch ur thread when stitching the hook side of the Velcro. Mine always gets tangled

Top stitching fixes a lot of aesthetic issues and minor glitches.

Pre-stretch your elastic before stitching it in place (or use upcycled elastic, I always cut the elastic off of old undies

)

If it looks "not quite right" don't be discouraged. I always have to remind myself that even if the seams are uneven or the tabs aren't identical, it still does a dandy job at catching poop!

---------- Post added at 07:26 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:22 AM ----------

If you're using pul, your thread has to be 100% polyester or else it will wick moisture badly.

After you finish it, run it through the dryer on HOT to help it seal back up at the seams.

To speed up drying time I like to make the absorbent part (soaker) snap in instead of hidden. This way it can also double as mama cloth.

SweetCaroline · 04-13-2012, 04:29 AM

oh! there was a really awesome pattern for an AIO that you could flip in side out exposing the inner pad so it would dry faster...

i'll look

making fitteds out ofprefolds is a worthy use of time as well

i really like my one fitted i made

doh! cross post

04-13-2012, 03:55 AM	#1
Willow27 Rose Bush Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 394	Have you made your own diapers? I was gifted with a sewing machine for my birthday I've found a couple of AIO cloth diaper patterns but wanted to know if any of you had a favorite pattern or fabric to use. I've also found PUL fabric and flannel online (my fabric store doesn't carry PUL or the aplix velcro, and I might as well buy from one location and shipping is cheaper than the gas to drive to the store). Any tips? __________________ Bought by Christ. Coffee addict. INTJ. Married to a handsome ESFP. Longing to be worthy of these gifts God has given me: DS1, my spirited explorer (4 yrs) DS2, my dairy-free snugglebug (2.5yo) DD1, my sweet pea (8 mo) Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~ Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ

04-13-2012, 04:20 AM	#2
MomtoJGJ Rose Garden Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 10,139	Re: Have you made your own diapers? My favorite thing to do is to take a pocket diaper and use that for a pattern. Then I make a pocket diaper out of flannel and use whatever (prefold, insert, etc) to stuff it... this helps drying time immensely over my fitteds that I made. I never had much luck with making true pockets or true aios... they always leaked. But I'm also not super talented. __________________ Lora Beth Jayden Elizabeth (10) Grace Angeline (8) Julianna Mabel (6.5) Evangeline Isabella (4) Penelope Reagan (7mo)

04-13-2012, 04:26 AM	#3
Chaos Coordinator Rose Garden Bring your normalcy to the edge and watch it drown in new horizons... Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: in my head. tra la la (zombie, zombie, zombay ay ay) Posts: 15,203	Re: Have you made your own diapers? Watch ur thread when stitching the hook side of the Velcro. Mine always gets tangled Top stitching fixes a lot of aesthetic issues and minor glitches. Pre-stretch your elastic before stitching it in place (or use upcycled elastic, I always cut the elastic off of old undies ) If it looks "not quite right" don't be discouraged. I always have to remind myself that even if the seams are uneven or the tabs aren't identical, it still does a dandy job at catching poop! ---------- Post added at 07:26 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:22 AM ---------- If you're using pul, your thread has to be 100% polyester or else it will wick moisture badly. After you finish it, run it through the dryer on HOT to help it seal back up at the seams. To speed up drying time I like to make the absorbent part (soaker) snap in instead of hidden. This way it can also double as mama cloth. __________________ Ood Married to my Rory The moon is on my side, I have no reason to run. The angels never arrived, but I can hear the choir. Mothering Stormageddon, Dark Lord Of All, 4 and the Weeping Angel, 2 "Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink." Babysitting the tiny Starwhale, 2.75 Mentoring Melody Pond, 16 And teaching the Adipose on Sundays I don't actually hate milk, it just needed more chocolate.

04-13-2012, 04:29 AM	#4
SweetCaroline Rose Garden a little Attachment Parenting will fix that Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 3,943	Re: Have you made your own diapers? oh! there was a really awesome pattern for an AIO that you could flip in side out exposing the inner pad so it would dry faster... i'll look making fitteds out ofprefolds is a worthy use of time as well i really like my one fitted i made doh! cross post __________________ Gently mothering 5 babes one day at a time, only by the help of my Lord - ages 11,6,5, 4, & 2 Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. ISFP Last edited by SweetCaroline; 04-13-2012 at 04:31 AM.

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