2014-September: Embellished OS Pocket diapers (covers)

Another upcycled diaper project!  I got two "play condition" Blueberry pockets on Spots' Corner, which turned out to be in better condition than described.  They really only needed some elastic replacement, so I did that and decided to have more fun with them.

I embellished them wing-to-wing with fun woven quilting cotton prints!  It was tricky to cut everything to size, AND keep the edges from fraying, AND keep the snaps exposed and usable, but I did it!!

I really like how they came out.  The only weird thing was I couldn't sew across the front of the woven (by the rise snaps), so they had a little "pocket" there on the outside.

With the woven cotton NOT touching the edge of the leg, I thought they wouldn't wick like most hidden-PUL diapers do.  Well, they did end up wicking a bit, and if I didn't add enough absorbency, they did leak out the top through some very sneaky cracks in the PUL.  They were OK as covers.  I ended up donating them!

2014-September: Upcycled AIO Cloth Diapers

So, at this point I was pregnant and made a bunch of wacky diapers to both "test out" on my friend's twins, and then eventually use on my girl!

These two were Franken-diapers made from some old size small Sposoeasys that I got off Spots' Corner.  They were AIOs and in pretty bad shape, so I pretty much took them 100% apart and completely changed them.  They had had cotton inners with a sewn flappy soaker, but none of that was salvageable since it was just thin and crunchy.

My Franken-diapers!

To both of the diapers I added a wing-to-wing woven print, and a front knit panel out of my old T-shirts.  Why the front panel?  For fun and MORE COLORS!  The diapers had had velcro closures, so I got rid of that and snapped them instead.

This one had pink PUL, which is still visible on the finished design.

I added a microfleece inner (water-repelling -- and also upcycled since it had been a baby blanket!) and snapped in a modified trifold insert I had laying around (Cocalo).  So this one was more like an AI2.

The Cocalo insert had a booster, so I added snaps for that, too, and cut everything so it would all lay flat.  The insert came with a center section of stay-dry, so I wanted to keep that on top and not fold the sides on top of it.

The second diaper was a pale purple PUL, but that got completely hidden.  I think this one came out a wee bit better.  It wasn't as bulky because I disassembled it in a better way.

I added an inner of stay-dry suede material that I got at a yard sale. I made this one into an AIO/pocket design, where the Cocalo pad was snapped to the inner and flipped into the pocket.

Of course it was a sleeve design (my favorite)!  Anything else you put in there would agitate out in the wash.  To really take the design up a notch, I'd cover those insert snaps so they wouldn't touch baby, but hey, she didn't seem to mind it.

I'm completely blanking on which one my friend liked better, but once my little bun was here, I liked the yellow and striped one.  Hubby liked how narrow the tabs were on the pink/purple one.  I like that, too -- there is something to be said for not having excess material in your tabs/wings.

Hooray for giving new life to old stuff! :)