Rough Draft
April 8th, 2007
Just when I think I’ve got it right, I change it again. The pattern, that is. The article is coming along very nicely, and thanks to Erin’s comment yesterday, I even remembered to talk about how many diapers you need (not less than three dozen, if sanity is a long-term goal).
The silly pattern is coming along. I thought I had it done, and even got it onto the computer and everything, then I decided to tweak it a bit more. I made a few more test diapers, changed my instructions a bit, and now I’m pretty happy. There’s still something a bit funky with the leg elastic, but I’m working on that. Here are the test diapers, with the latest version in front.
annie,
what a great concept, to make a pattern with the idea to make cd sewing and using accessible and easy for everyone. the dipes looks lovely and i hope you are on the road to feeling better.
Do they still sell plain diapers?—not the prefold but the kind you fold up yourself into your favorite shape. My “baby” is 31 yrs. old so I’m way out….I had five children though and I bet I could fold a piece of oblong birdseye into a fluffy trapazoid shape in ten seconds!!!
Barbara C.
Such cute and adorable looking cloth diapers!!! My what a change from the old style of cotton fold flats I used on my little ones!
I remember we had three children in diapers at the same time- a toddler and twin baby boys… then along came our adopted baby girl!
Suddenly I was thrust into the world of multiples, and I kept all four in nothing but plain old cotton cloth diapers (rectangles), with pins and rubber pants! I had to… it wasn’t an option but rather a neccessity!
With four little bums in diapers I quickly mastered the fine art of assembly line diaper changing, and in a real hurry!
Once I had all four babies spread out and lined up on the floor or on my bed in a neat row side by side, I would swiftly whisk off everyone’s rubber pants one after another- setting each baby’s pair of rubber pants off to the righthand side of them, so as to keep track of who’s rubber pants I was putting on who again, when I got done doing all the diapering and pinning!
Then with the speed and dexterity that only the hands and fingers of a well honed and experienced cloth diaper changing mama could possess, I would go about unlatching and plucking all the diaper pins from everyone’s diapers- as if removing petals from a flower, change all the diapers, re-fasten everyone’s diapers again with pins- two per baby- (one on each side) and without ever poking anyone may I add, then pull everyone’s rubber pants back on again… and in most cases I was able to accomplish the entire feat in under 5 minutes flat, providing I was dealing with wet diapers only!
I could literally make those diapers and rubber pants sing when I changed them, because I changed them so fast! Those were the days!
Keep up the great work making all those lovely cloth diapers! Great blog!