Fluff Talk Thursdays

I saw this blog and thought - wow! What a coincidence!

I had been dying to blog about my cloth diapers and it is Thursday - the exact day that Happily Dometic decided to devote to cloth diapering. Woohoo!

So I am blogging one week early. Her Fluff Talk Thursdays start next week...oh well :)

My foray into the world of homemade cloth diapers didn't last long. I kept reading about how to make your own, how fun it was and how much money you could save. So I tried. I even rallied the support of my mother in law and aunt. We spent a couple weeks buying fun fabric and a weekend making fitted diapers for my daughter. They really turned out quite cute!

Here is a photo of Josh's favorite - he is an avid Star Wars fan so I thought of him when I saw this fabric!

But after putting them on Lizzie I noticed I didn't like the lack of absorbancy. I can't work with cotton knit fabrics since I don't have the expertise and had no idea where or how to get a snap press.

Eventually I just bought diapers from Work at Home Moms. I loved the fact that I was helping a mom stay home with her children. And let's face it - their diapers were 10 times nicer than any I would ever make! So after making 6 diapers I gave up the dream and let other moms live it instead :)

Then my mother in law got a serger. I started to make cloth wipes - woohoo! That was fun! Sergers are quite the adrenaline rush :)

Then my mother in law helped me make some prefitteds. I bought some Tinkle Traps prefitteds and thought "I can do this!" So I tried to copy the design - putting elastic in the legs and extending the tabs so they overlap in the middle, thus eliminating the "I can't snappi cause my baby is too chubby" prefold syndrome. These worked alright, but sure didn't stand the test of time like those wonderful Tinkle Traps.

I am simply not a seamstress. I'll just stick to what I am good at - writing and making my kids laugh - and let the talented hardworking WAHMS make the diapers for me!