Welcome to Diaper Sewing!
December 7, 2006 by nutmeg
Our Mission — to bring the world of cloth diapering to the mainstream world, free of charge
Thank you so much for taking the time to check out our site. This is an international project, with contributors from all over the globe. If you’d like to be a part of our author’s list, please reply here after reading what we’re all about.
How is this different from most cloth diaper info sites?
For one thing, no ads. I will have links if you’re interested in purchasing cloth diapers, but no ads here.
In addition, all this information is free for you to use. So long as you don’t charge anyone for anything you print or copy here you’re fine. You can use the patterns to make diapers, make them for sale, just leave the Creative Commons ‘chicklet’ and link to here with your information about the diaper when you send them to customers and you’re good to go. Sounds pretty good, huh?
Most diaper sites have copyright regarding their information and posts. Which means nothing can be copied and used or passed around. They retain all copyright. If you want to copy something you have to ask permission.
Here at Diapersewing.wordpress.com , you don’t have to ask permission. It’s free to use for anyone who wants to use it.
If you’d like to contribute to Diaper Sewing
Thank you so much! Please e-mail me with what you’d like to add (materialmama at gmail dot com), where you heard about us, and your e-mail address. Send your pattern to me in Word, .pdf or email, with pictures attached.
You can also send in pictures of cloth diaper sewing techniques. Please don’t send in pictures with your children in them. I’d like to stay off the fetish radar as much as possible. There is a Flickr group for pictures of cloth diaper making, you can see it to the left. Flickr is a free photo hosting site, and it’s really great!
If we already have a fitted diaper pattern, please feel free to add your own. We all know that babies come in all shapes and sizes. The more the merrier! Please feel free to email me at materialmama at gmail dot com and I’ll get your article up asap.
How do I use this site?
If you look to the left, you’ll see the categories. You should be able to find what you’re looking for there. We’re not complete by any stretch yet, and some images need to be uploaded. If you’re interested in helping by hosting pictures on your site, please let me know.
This is a work in progress, thanks for all the help along the way! We need more helping hands, so if you have something to add, please send me the article you’d like to have hosted here. So long as you’re the originator of the sew along or pattern, and are okay with people making it and selling it, you’re good to go.
– Meg aka Nutmeg from materialmama.com and CookiePants.com
Diaper Sewing is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0
You are free:
- to Share — to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
- to Remix — to make derivative works
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- Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
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You CAN use the resulting products (diapers, slings, etc) to sell or manufacture so long as the Creative Commons license (above) accompanies each item sent out.
I’d love to help contribute! Off the top of my head, here is some information for wipes and wipe solution:
The most basic wipe solution is: water! You do not need to add anything to it, although you can. Small spray bottles can be purchased in any Walmart or Target, located in the travel/trial section. You can also add a few drops of tea tree oil (located in the pharmacy) to the solution as an antibacterial agent.
Wipes can also be very simple and affordable. A package of baby washclothes work great, and who didn’t receive a million of these at their baby shower? You can also cut up receiving blankets, or sew your own by taking one or two layers of fabric (flannel works really great), and stitching along the sides.
Someone cross posted your link and I’m interested in contributing to your cause. Please contact me and we can go from there!
Good Luck…and what a great idea!
I’d love to contribute as well. And I greatly support WAHMs!!!
Microfleece wipes are starting to be the new fad… all you have to do is get some microfleece in whatever color or pattern you choose & cute and get started. I use a roller & measuring board to make them exactly 8″x6″ but you could make them any size (or shape) you like.
Andrea
These all sound great! If you write them up, add a picture to the Flickr group, I’ll post it here for you.
I have sent everyone thus far an invite to be a contributor. You should be able to add articles as soon as you sign up for a WordPress account. You don’t need to create your own blog, just add to ours!
Thanks mamas!!!!
Hi, I’m so excited about this site but am having trouble navigating. Can’t find the cloth diaper instructions. Is there a different home page?
If you look to the left, you’ll see the catagories. You should be able to find what you’re looking for there. We’re not complete by any stretch yet, and some images need to be uploaded.
This is a work in progress, thanks for all the help along the way!
MEG!
This is cool, cool, cool! Love it. Thanks so much for the CD of podcasts. They’re just fabulous.
Much love.
I found your site when I was looking up where to by nursing bra clasps and I love what I see! I have bookmarked this site and plan to try making some things suggested here. I just need to learn how to sew using my sewing machine… = )
Emily if you go to http://www.youtube.com, they have free tutorials there on how to begin sewing on a sewing machine. There are alot of free sewing videos there.
Now my question is, my daughter is about to have a little one in December, and she is against cloth diapers, wants to use all disposables ( to my horror). I told her everything I could, what would you tell her to help her feel more comfortable about using them.
She’ll be raising her child alone with her parents help, her husband was shot & killed months ago. I thought cloth diapers would at least save her money lol. I guess she is just fearing the unknown….
You can email me anytime at decorbydee [at] aol.com
Thanks Diana Dee
hI! I’m not sure where to post this question…so I’m posting it here! I am a beginner/Intermediate crocheter and I am really hoping to be more successful at cloth diapering my second child (coming in 2 months!!). With my son I had major problems with diaper covers (didn’t have the $$$ to buy nice ones, so I ended up using old school “plastic pants”- gross!!).
Anyway, I found a pattern to crochet wool diaper covers (tickle turtle wraps) which is great (I’ve made three!). But now I’m hoping to makepull on ones (without having to use pins or snappi’s) and more importantly I want to make “longgies”/diaper cover pants. Does anyone know of any FREE & fairly EASY patterns?? I’ve only found one (by Yvonne Wolfsen). I started it and just got totally lost and confused!!
Ok, I’m rambling! Thanks for your help!!!
-Melissa
Hi… I can’t seem to find the diaper pattern. Could you tell me how to find it and print it out? I love this site ~
Blessings & Peace to all Kim
Please tell me what you need i am happy to help
I had a bunch of old towels that were at the bottom of the stack in the linen closet (because they had holes and stains) so I just cut and sewed soakers out of those. No need to buy any fabric
I also made many stuffable cloth diapers out of old flannel shirts and T-shirts and then used snappi fasteners and bummis covers. The scraps from those, like the sleeves and such, made great wipes and diaper liners for when you need the diaper rash ointment (which is not all that often if diapers are changed shortly after they are soiled).
I made extra wipes that are now used as hankies (from the t-shirts and flannels).
Cloth diapers have saved us a ton of money and our daycare provider is fine with them. She just changes our little one and puts the dirtys in a waterproof bag. We do not ask her to rinse them at all. We take them home every night and wash them up. We did not use them right away - we waited for the “stump” to fall off (about 3-4 weeks).
We do use disposables when our little one has diarrhea (so we do not have to use bleach) or when we will be gone from home for more than 2 days.
I would recommend a sprayer on your toilet. We use it for 101 things around the house too. It has been so handy.
Hope this is of interest.
the towels were made into doublers not soakers - sorry for any confusion…I interchange the two terms.
You can reuse regular babywipes by just washing them with your cloth diapers. I take them straight out of the dryer in a big ball and get them wet and put them in a wipe warmer. They can be washed again and again. My favoriots are the Costco Kirkland wipes,but I have re-used huggies as well.