However, I am very proud of some recent projects.
I've been making diapers!
"Out of what?" you ask.
Well just about anything that says 100% cotton. I've made some out of flannel bed sheets (My favorite because they are so absorbent!) and old t-shirts and old socks and old pillow cases... if it sucks up water, then I'll try to turn it into a diaper.
The best part is that I've have 7 new fitted diapers and it's only cost me $1.75 for the purchase of elastic.
Actually, I started making prefolds because that seemed like an easy way to up my diaper supply the quickest. Then, while disassembling some fitted sheets I found some elastic. A few experiments later I had new fitted diapers. I quickly went back and turned the 3 prefolds I had made into fitteds. I love the fitted because there is no folding and they hold in poop a lot better... which saves my covers...
Which brings me to my wool covers. John has been in cloth since he was about 2.5 weeks old but I hadn't experimented with lanolized wool until recently... as in yesterday. I knitted a cover before he was born out of Fisherman's Wool from Hobby Lobby, but recently I bought an 100% wool skirt at a garage sale for $1.00. Considering that one wool cover goes for about $30-$50 and I can make 4 covers out of my skirt... that was an AMAZING deal!
I turned it into a one sized (I know, fancy right!) diaper cover using my Bumgenius as a guide/pattern. Right now the one cover is in it's "testing" phase and I will make the other 3 after it passes.
Here are some pictures....
I took one t-shirt and made TWO fitted diapers with just a small amount of scrap.
Here is the diapering process...
Put fitted diaper on baby, fasten with snappi
(I opted out of using Velcro because I didn't want it sticking to different things in the wash and it was a lot cheaper to just use one of the six snappi's I already own).
((note the strategically places Texas A&M symbol, courtesy of Steve's old dorm days shirt... it's currently my favorite diaper))
Then wrap up lanolized wool diaper cover made out of skirt.... and PRESTO! A diapered baby ready for a nap!
It's so fun to have an actual baby to do all the modeling for me... I'm glad he's a good sport. (And sorry, Mom, that I cut out his face... the camera took a better picture of just the diaper)
Okay... coming soon... a really, really, REALLY long post about our entire diapering system!
you. are. amazing. have you heard of the FREEGAN movement?
ReplyDeleteThank you! And yes, I have heard of Freeganism. Oprah did a show on it and it was fascinating. I'm not brave enough to eat food out of dumpsters, but we do believe in anti-consumerism because it's anti-spending-money.
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