Category — Diaper Making

So, you’ve decided you want to try making cloth diapers for your baby yourself, but you have no idea where to start.  Hopefully, I can help you get started by providing you with some useful information in this post. [Read more →]

If you’re wondering why I haven’t been making cloth diapers for sale anymore, you’re not the only one.  I’ve had some wonderful customers contact me asking when I’m going to start making cloth diapers for sale again.  To tell you the truth, I’m still trying to decide whether I should go back to diaper making.

Some of you might think that I gave up because I wasn’t successful enough at what I was doing.  The truth is, my diaper sales were rising quickly (mostly outside of Etsy) when I decided to take a break.  Now I’m trying to decide whether this break should be permanent.

Those of you, who know me in person, know how passionate I am about cloth diapers.  I can talk about anything related to cloth diapers for hours.  However, the truth is, I prefer to design diapers rather than to make them.  I’m always more curious about the design of a diaper than anything else.  Maybe it’s the engineer in me that always wants to know how something works.

The second reason for wanting to leave diaper making behind is that I miss the field of technology a bit.  I miss some of the challenges I was faced with on a daily basis.  I miss working with software.

And finally, the main reason why I do not want to make diapers anymore is that I want to spend more time with my daughter.  I already missed a lot of valuable time with her.  The past year has gone by in a flash and I find myself wishing I had taken more time to play or relax with her.

So these are the reasons why and I hope you understand…

Organic Bamboo Velour

For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been making bamboo cloth diapers, doublers, inserts and cloth wipes for a few months now.  I fell in love with bamboo fabric, when my daughter became a heavy wetter and cotton diapers failed to hold the HUGE amounts of pee that came out of this little baby at night.  We actually ended up using disposables for a couple of months until I discovered bamboo fleece.  Around that time I started making diapers, so I decided to play a bit with different fabrics and try to find out which one would work best for us.  After doing some online research, I decided to order some bamboo velour, bamboo fleece, bamboo loop terry, and bamboo french terry.  I also tried hemp fleece, but never got hooked on that stuff.  I found it too rough after a few washes and it stained more easily.  It also has a tendency to get a bit more stinky than bamboo.  That’s my experience though.  I know a lot of people out there LOVE hemp fleece.

After some extensive testing courtesy of my daughter, I decided to go with bamboo fleece because of its absorbency and softness.  Bamboo velour felt softer than bamboo fleece, but it just wasn’t absorbent enough.  Although velour is a a great fabric to have as the inside layer of a diaper, right against baby’s skin.  I also love the fabric for cloth wipes / washcloths.

If you’d like to read about the benefits of bamboo, check out the following article:

http://www.articlesbase.com/home-and-family-articles/benefits-of-bamboo-fabric-547961.html

I just love that bamboo does not require pesticides to grow and that it’s anti-bacterial.