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Fluff Talk Thursdays: Show Your Stash

 

My stash, from left to right, top to bottom:

Lily’s small-size Huggabuns diapers (this particular version is no longer made) with liners underneath
Bumgenius 3.0 snapped to fit Lily with liners (also snapped to fit Lily) underneath
Johnny’s medium-size Huggabuns diapers (also no longer sold in this incarnation) with liners underneath
Imse Vimse training pants for Johnny with home-sewn [...]

Fluff Talk Thursdays: Why Cloth?

When my oldest daughter Emma was born, a couple of my friends were trying to use cloth diapers with their babies. I admired their eco-friendliness but stuck with disposables. We were living in a tiny (under 400 square feet) apartment. We had a washer but no dryer, and I couldn’t face the idea of having [...]

Baby Wipes

MATERIALS:

flannel
scissors
sewing machine

STEPS:

1) Tear flannel into baby wipe-size pieces

2) Serge or zig zag edges

I’m using these as inserts for Lily’s newborn diapers also (I’ve made one more cover and plan to make a few more). There are various baby wipe solution recipes on the internet, but I use plain [...]

My first cloth diaper (cover)!

Mike took the kids to the Children’s and Science Discovery Museums in Acton on Saturday and I had a quiet morning at home. It’s amazing how much I can done without two toddlers underfoot! I decided it was the perfect occasion to tackle my fear of sewing cloth diapers. I decided to start off [...]