Pinkle Bottom Cloth Diaper Pattern (with Aplix closures)

What you will need:

• Sewing machine
• Polyester thread (in your color choice)
• Scissors
• Pins
• Crochet hook
• PUL (or outer fabric)
• Absorbent Inner (I used minky)
• 6 1/4” buttons
• 1 yard of button hole elastic
• 7” loop aplix (velcro)
• 4” hook aplix (velcro)

Instructions:

1. Print out your Pinkle Bottoms Diaper Pattern (at the bottom of this post) and make sure that the 1 inch block measures at 1 inch on all sides. If it does not measure at 1 inch you need to make adjustments with your printing options.
   
2. Make sure to align the round diamonds and tape the diaper pattern together.
   
3. Once your pattern is put together, lay the pattern on your folded outer fabric, trace and cut making sure to cut out the outer tab marked “Cut here for outer fabric”. If you pin the pattern to your fabric be sure not to use too many pins because you don’t want many holes in your waterproof layer.
   
4. Do the same for your inner fabric but make sure you cut out the small tab marked “Cut here for inner fabric”.
   
5. Turn the diaper inner wrong side facing up and mark where the yellow suns are on the diaper pattern onto your diaper inner. This is where your buttons will go. Go ahead and sew on your six buttons to the wrong side of your diaper inner fabric.
   
6. On the outer fabric you cut out earlier, fold the tab at the top of the back of the diaper over and sew it down with a 1/4” seam.
   
7. Then place your 7” loop aplix (or velcro) on the top of the front of your diaper outer fabric and pin into place. Then sew with a zigzag stitch onto your diaper outer.
   
8. Cut your hook 4” hook aplix (or velcro) in to 2 2” pieces for the tabs. Place each tab into place on the right side of the inner fabric, pin, and sew with a zigzag stitch.
   
9. Place both diaper pieces right sides together and pin. Be sure not to use many pins because you don’t want many pin holes in your outer waterproof layer. Sew the diaper together with a 1/4” seam all the way around the diaper starting and ending at the back waist tab.
   
10. Turn your diaper inside out and mark (or place pins) where the blue flowers are on the inside of the diape3r. (This is where the elastic will go later).
    
11. Sew a 1/4” seam around the outside of the diaper and when you get to your mark stop, backstitch, and cut off your thread. Then begin sewing again at the mark with a 5/8” seam until you get to your next mark. Then stop, backstitch, cut off your thread, and begin sewing again with a 1/4” seam around the outside of the diaper. (Be sure to not sew the pocket together in the back where the back waist tab is).
    
12. Sew a zigzag stitch on the open part of the inner fabric to prevent fraying.
    
13. Cut 3 pieces of buttonhole elastic: 2 that have 15 holes and 1 that has 11 holes.
    
14. Thread a 15 holes elastic piece through one of the openings in the side of the leg using a crochet hook. To make sure you don’t loose your elastic through the opeing, go ahead and button the elastic to one of the buttons you have previously sewn on.
    
15. Button the elastic on the other side of the leg opening and stretch the elastic to make sure it is completely in the leg opening.
    
16. Apply this same concept to the other leg opening with the 15 hole elastic and to the back waist opening with the 11 hole elastic.
17. You can button the elastic on different button holes to customize the fit of the diaper on your baby. (For my 2 month 13 lb. baby I like to button the elastic on the 5 hole on both sides for the legs).
    
18. Be sure to wash the diaper at least once before using it in diaper safe detergent.

Pinkle Bottom Pattern: To Print, click the image and save to your computer. Make sure when you print the image to select "Fill Entire Page" (Please comment if you have any problems).

♥ Mrs. Suzie

Making the Bun in the Oven a Blanket

So lately I've been hard at work making things for our soon-to-be addition to the family. As of this past week, it has consisted of brainstorming what the baby's quilt should look like. I know I wanted to do something with elephants and the colors blue, white, and gray so I searched the internet for ideas. I finally just decided to make up my own because their weren't very many on the internet that looked fit for a nursery.

I started with my elephant cookie cutters that I bought a couple months ago, some white fabric paint, and an old gray sheet. I dipped the cookie cutters in the paint and stamped them onto the fabric longways in variating rows. Once that dried I added a 4" white border from another old sheet I had lying around.

If you have watched my Cloth Revolution Diaper Tutorial you would know about my blue and white polka dotted "microfleece"situation. Well after having to find a use for it I felt like this quilt was perfect for the use of that fabric. So I sketched out half of an elephant on the back of it, cut it out, "heat bonded" it to the fabric I just got finished stamping, and sewed a blanket stitch around the border in a dark gray thread.

Here's a close up so you can see the endless hours and hurt fingers I put into this simple border.

Then I decided the quilt needed something else. So I took some more embroidery floss and made rough thick stitches with 1/2" places in between. Here you can see it getting started and the quilt as a whole.

Here's a close up of the stitching. Needless to say there were more soar fingers involved in this process (I guess that's why people wear thimbles?).

So I eventually added enough stitching to the border to make me satisfied using a pattern of: Light blue, Blue, Dark Gray, Dark Gray, Blue, Light Blue. Then I pinned the back of the quilt to the front. This was just a piece of white fabric (left over from the sheet I cut up) so I didn't take pics.

Then I got to work pinning the binding around the quilt. I choose light blue because I didn't want the quilt to be predominantly gray.

Once I got that stuff sewn on using my sewing machine (might I say binding isn't as easy as it looks to put on) I was finished. I think it turned out just gorgeous. Now I just have to work on the mobile, the bumper, and the lamp. Good thing I still have until January!

♥ Mrs. Suzie

Cloth Revolution Diaper tutorial

I FINALLY have made a cloth diaper tutorial using the Cloth Revolution pattern. I used 1 1/2" velcro in the tute while following the directions for the pocket diaper. I absolutely love it and will make more! So here is the video, let me know what you think :)

♥ Mrs. Suzie