Working progress

Hello everyone

I had been thinking about making my own nappies/diapers for a while. I use them on my daughter and love them, I have far too many for Emily once you buy one you can not stop. I use fitted nappies, nappies that require a waterproof wrap, fleece wrap or wool as in knitted. I also have birth to potty (BTP) nappies also known as onesize nappies, some may require a wrap and others have a waterproof layer built in. There is also a lot of choice of nappies.

I work as real nappy adviser for lollipop children’s products ltd.

I love the nappies they have. Emily my daughter skin is easily effected and make’s it hard to buy nappies for her. We mainly use fitted nappies and use wool over the top. I can not knit but I can sew. With this problem and the fact when you have a wriggly baby some times getting a nappy on can be a chore. I put my thinking cap on to come up with an idea for a new nappy. I thought and thought about it, maybe I could use bamboo or maybe cotton. At the time of me trying to think of what material my nappy should be made of. I was getting Emily some custom made wool soakers, wool longies(trouser), and crops from www.Knitterarty.co.uk

I had been speaking to the lady who was knitting for me and she was a great help. I then went looking for material and prices from different shops and came back with black fleece material.

So I got down to business first with cutting the material in 50 by 50 cm I got 5 cuts enough to make one nappy and a pack of a second nappy. Then I use a nappy that I had for a template to get the shape of the legs and an idea for the sides of the nappy. I cut out the first part of the nappy and used it for the second part and then cut it out to. I then moved onto the elastic for giving the nappy some stretch and fit for longer. I came into problems with this part and having no pins, to pin the elastic in place I tried a few different ways and had no luck. I want to have E for Emily on the back of my nappies, silly me use red thread for sewing with. So it is not easy to see. So for next week I will have to buy some pins and embordary thread to countine with the nappy.

The second items I am working on is 2 white cotton tots bots nappies. They are here to be dyed ocean blue for a friend, this will be my second lot of nappies to dye. I started off with dyeing my own nappies pink and they turned out well.

The plan is for 1 nappy to be solid blue
and the other to be different shades of blue, I will be dyeing these later and will post a pictures of the nappies being dyed and once they are finished.

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