When I bought the PUL to make T's wet/dry bags, I accidentally ordered two yards, when I only needed less than one yard. So I have a ton of leftover aqua PUL, and I figured it was time to turn it into some diapers. Round one...
Outer is PUL from fabric.com, inner is butter suedecloth from Hancock Fabrics. The pattern is Darling Diapers Unlimited. Last time I sewed this pattern, the pocket that I made was too narrow for easy stuffing. Luckily, the pattern has an option for a slightly wider diaper (you cut the pattern with color sides -- if you've ever seen the pattern before, this will make sense!), so that's what I did this time and it worked out beautifully.
The hook & loop is aplix from Verybaby.com. I ordered some aplix and touchtape from them a while ago, and used the touchtape first. I haven't been impressed... the loop side is super sticky, to the point where it is hard to actually get the hook unhooked. Also, the selvages have tended to unravel on the diapers I've made so far. I finally ran out of it and switched to the aplix for this diaper, and oh my goodness! So much better. It is soft and not too sticky. Love it.
On the bum...
It is a little bit "bubbly" in the back, and I'm not quite sure why. It's not too too bad, but not as trim fitting as the Bum Genius pockets that we usually use.
After I finished that one, I pulled out some sandwich PUL that I bought from the Swaddlebees clearance section last summer. They had a bunch of discontinued PUL, including prints, which are very hard to find! And it was selling for basically wholesale pricing, $6/yard. (They still have some left at that price, but all solids, no more prints.) I got that and some microfleece for diaper inners and also some wool. But they told me that they had oversold the PUL, so I cancelled the entire order, figuring microfleece was no good without the PUL and, well, I didn't really need the wool. They came back and said, "Can we substitute a different print for you?" So rather than the discontinued "Blue Martini" print, they sent me the current "Blue Summer" print. And as I mentioned in a previous post, they threw in an end cut of "Blue Martini," which I've been using to make wetbags. Big score!
Anyway, here's what I sewed up. Same pattern and suedecloth inner as the previous diaper:
The pattern calls for sewing a small strip of lining fabric at the back to create the casing for the back elastic. I made it a little bit wider than the pattern called for (2" wide instead of 1.25") and added a snap socket:
Now I can either stuff the diaper's pocket or snap in a soaker to use it as an AI2, just like my Softbums Omni. Here it is with a snapped-in soaker. This is the "fake pod" that I made for my Omni a week or so ago.
On the bum... excuse the runny nose. He is teething:
I've always found sewing diapers to be a little tricky -- the elastic, in particular, gives me fits -- which is why I don't do it a ton. But doing two back-to-back seems to have helped, as the second diaper came together a lot faster than the first. I'm about to go on a one-week business trip and won't be able to sew, but I have some more diaper ideas when I get back, so I think I may knuckle down and churn them out!
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