2015-October: Cloudy Sky Halloween Costume

I call C. my little cloud, so I thought I'd make her a little sky costume for Halloween!

It was pretty simple; I found a really nice (organic cotton on huge sale!) romper on Amazon, and appliqued on a bunch of fleece clouds.

The hat is a knit cap (again, thanks Amazon!) with pretty shoddily-made sun rays coming out.  The rays are an old T-shirt colored with yellow Sharpie! Yes, I can get pretty fancy. ;)

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Look at this cute little bun!

The romper is huge and she still fits it, though we don't really put her in one-pieces anymore.  But it's getting colder -- maybe I'll bundle her in her cloud suit on an upcoming outing!

2015-October: Rainbow Scales and Buzzy Bees AIO Diapers

I made two size medium diapers from a modification of Arfy's pattern -- my new favorite!  These fit C. really well!

This is the only good pic I have of the bees one

I had a lot of fun with all the rainbows!

Star snaps are where the inserts snap in

These diapers had the first version of my snappy AIO design: a pocket diaper where the inserts agitate out, but they are snapped on for no-confusion stuffing!  Inserts are made from hemp-bamboo-cotton blend fabric, and sewn together at the top.  The inner of  Rainbows is suedecloth, Bees is microfleece.

I used both of these until they didn't fit C. anymore!

2015-September/October: Unicorn Rainbow Pants!!

These pants were epic!  They ARE epic!  I made them as per E's request, one leg rainbow and one leg unicorn.

She wore them a bunch until a "bright" idea of mine started bothering her: the snappy hem!

I thought it would be oh-so-clever to make these superlong pants (The Parsley Pants again! Take 1, Take 2 This time made in size 8 knit so they'd actually fit!) with an adjustable hem.

Because they were about 8"+ too long for E, I added two levels of snaps, so they could easily unsnap as she grew!  And the snaps look cute! What a great idea, right?

Nope.

At first she didn't mind, but ultimately the hem really bothered her.  Both the scratchy snaps (girl plays outside/scrambles about/falls down a lot) and the "loose" part of the hem inside (remember, it's only held on by 4 snaps per row) made them annoying to wear and difficult to put on.  Sadness!  These pants are so cool!

Luckily she didn't complain about those aspects until a few months had passed.  She had them in heavy rotation at first, but NOW (when I could probably unsnap them at least one level), she wants nothing to do with them.

This will require some thought!  Obviously a simple REAL hem would do the trick.  But if I try to take the snaps off, there will be icky holes.  Perhaps a lining of some sort is in order.  I'll update you when I get to it!

AND . . . . WAIT FOR IT . . . .

I totally forgot that I had made her a shirt with the same fabrics, and she paired them one day this past March.  EPIC I TELL YOU!

***Update!! The Parsley Pants pattern is not small!  Read this!

2015-September: Snowflake Fold-In Fitted Diaper

This project was two ideas coming together:

1) I had gotten some hemp-bamboo-cotton blend fabric, and I wanted to see how it worked in a nighttime fitted!

2) I was checking out Arfy's fold-in fitted pattern, and it looked so cool and different, I had to try it.

So I made this!  It just has a knit print outer.

Ultimately it didn't work out so well, because it STILL didn't hold enough and was on the snug side.  The absorbency issue could be that I didn't prep it enough.

Still, it's a cute diaper and I like the fold-in design in theory.

The shape of the fold-out "inserts" is limited by the curve of the diaper itself.  (See below)

In progress, turned, no elastic

Otherwise, I think longer inserts may have worked better.  Or sewing more layers into it, but then it would take too long to dry.  Anyway, it wasn't quite what I wanted!

That hemp-bamboo-cotton blend fabric turned out to not be my favorite, either.