First homemade fitted diaper
Jun. 27th, 2007 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
same_skyI did it! I finally did it! I sewed my very first diaper, using ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mayna's tutorial and a template that I knocked off from a FuzziBunz diaper. It was pretty easy, even for someone with my limited sewing skills. It even fits her, sorta! I started to make one before she was born and I actually had free time on my hands, but I got stuck on the template and left it all lying on the table for a month. Another tutorial I saw recently inspired me to use the FuzziBunz as a basic shape. There are several things I don't like about the shape (too pointy) but I know what to change in my template now, which I didn't before. I put it on her this afternoon--it doesn't fit super well, but she wore it and it didn't leak. What more can you ask for?
Mine is the multi-colored one on the right. It's pictured with the diaper I copied the template from. The fabric is mostly flannel from the $1/yard table at WalMart.
I also took a picture of our little changing table basket in the bathroom, because I think it's kind of nice. You really don't have to be so fiddly with putting diaper laundry away, but I enjoy it because it's so cute. I rearranged the stack of wipes to feature the recycled Hawaiian-shirt wipes I mentioned yesterday. Usually, by the way, we just wet them from the faucet before we use them--there was a discussion before she was born on how the wipes would be used. Sometimes I fold a few and put them in a disposable wipes container wet. I made a water/witch hazel solution today. I need to keep wet ones ready more than I do, because I would like to limit how many times per day I get my hands wet--they've dried out and are cracked and bleeding just like it was winter.
The ones on the bottom left are the ones we use the most, Kissaluvs 0s. M loves them, which I think is cute. I expected him to like the ones that are most like disposables, but he likes the ones that require extra covers.
I was extra tired tonight, so what did I do? Bonus points to whoever answered "stay up later than usual"! Why am I such a dork about going to sleep? I need to wrap this up, so much as usual, I would like you to insert your own brilliant conclusionary paragraph here. I have always been bad at tying it all together at the end.
mayna's tutorial and a template that I knocked off from a FuzziBunz diaper. It was pretty easy, even for someone with my limited sewing skills. It even fits her, sorta! I started to make one before she was born and I actually had free time on my hands, but I got stuck on the template and left it all lying on the table for a month. Another tutorial I saw recently inspired me to use the FuzziBunz as a basic shape. There are several things I don't like about the shape (too pointy) but I know what to change in my template now, which I didn't before. I put it on her this afternoon--it doesn't fit super well, but she wore it and it didn't leak. What more can you ask for? Mine is the multi-colored one on the right. It's pictured with the diaper I copied the template from. The fabric is mostly flannel from the $1/yard table at WalMart.
I also took a picture of our little changing table basket in the bathroom, because I think it's kind of nice. You really don't have to be so fiddly with putting diaper laundry away, but I enjoy it because it's so cute. I rearranged the stack of wipes to feature the recycled Hawaiian-shirt wipes I mentioned yesterday. Usually, by the way, we just wet them from the faucet before we use them--there was a discussion before she was born on how the wipes would be used. Sometimes I fold a few and put them in a disposable wipes container wet. I made a water/witch hazel solution today. I need to keep wet ones ready more than I do, because I would like to limit how many times per day I get my hands wet--they've dried out and are cracked and bleeding just like it was winter.
The ones on the bottom left are the ones we use the most, Kissaluvs 0s. M loves them, which I think is cute. I expected him to like the ones that are most like disposables, but he likes the ones that require extra covers.
I was extra tired tonight, so what did I do? Bonus points to whoever answered "stay up later than usual"! Why am I such a dork about going to sleep? I need to wrap this up, so much as usual, I would like you to insert your own brilliant conclusionary paragraph here. I have always been bad at tying it all together at the end.
