How long does it take you to make a dipe?

[lisahas2cats]

Not counting all the time spent getting up to rescue the baby after rolling over and trapping her arm under herself, then feeding said baby (because I haven't yet learned how to nurse while sewing...LOL), then hanging out a load of laundry before coming back to your sewing

I'm thinking that in actual dipe-making time, it takes me about an hour!! I think I'm really slow though, and am still pretty much a beginner.

What things do you do that make you more efficient and hence speedier?

Lisa

[msrog]

it seems to take me a week to make a diaper, with twins needing me and housework and errands and homeschool... ugh. I can get quite a bit done while they sleep, but last week they seemed to be on sleep strike.

[amysuen]

Well, I've never timed it, but I have about 1 1/2 hours a day to sew and I make a diaper start to finish in 2 days. I also have to get out and put away my machine and supplies every day, so actual cutting and sewing time is probably 45-60 minutes. I wish I had a day to sew with no interruptions, then I could really fly!

[momof2tadpoles0104]

baring no interuptions maybe an hour give or take but ya usually its more like a full day goes by before i finish one lol

[MoMommy]

I can usually finish one in three days but if I had no interruptions I think it would take two hours.

[Jillbob]

I have a sewing room so everything is always out, and I have a serger which cuts diaper sewing time waaay down. If I've already ironed the fabric, I can make a pocket fitted in around 30-45min from cutting to snaps. A quick dry (snap in) fitted takes me around an hour. Of course, this is only if I have NO interuptions. Usually it takes me around 3-4 hours to make 2 diapers (I always make 2 at a time for some reason) because I have to nurse the little one, or dh needs something or something like that. The first diaper I made took me about a month, and it was a MESS!! lol I'm not too picky about diapers for my kids, if the serging runs off, or the snaps are a little crooked, I don't really care as long as it's functional. Now diapers I make for friends is a whole 'nother thing. I'll spend hours making sure every thing is perfect.

[Jachut]

About an hour. I also have to put away my stuff when I've finished as I use the kitchen bench and the dining table, plus there's all the vacuuming of snipped threads etc. I wish I had a sewing room!

I do it in a kind of production line - I cut out two or three, put put the snaps in, sew the label on, then do the elastic one after another, then baste the edges closed with sewing machine, then serge them, then I make the soakers with my overlocker, then I do the snaps. Three takes me about 2-3 hours work, a nice afternoon pasttime on the weekend.

[lilyka]

It takes me about 20 minutes to cut and about 15 minutes to sew. that is with no interuptions. and having all my supplies handy. If I have to search for a bobbin or that peice of elastic I droped on the florr . . . .

[Sophiasmomma]

I only sew after DD goes to bed so I always start and finish in one night. I have something in me that wont let me sleep till a sewing project is completely done. From cutting to sewing the aplix on it takes me about 30 -40min to make a VB AIO or fitted. But to make something from my own pattern or a new pattern it can take up to 2 hrs for me to figure it out and complete it

[AngelBee]

I am so jealous of all of you! I want to learn how to sew!!!

[scrapadoozer]

I am still in the process of learning to sew. It took me a little over two hours to make a pocket semi-fitted.

[cyncyn]

Originally Posted by Jachut

... plus there's all the vacuuming of snipped threads etc.

I do it in a kind of production line - I cut out two or three, put put the snaps in, sew the label on, then do the elastic one after another, then baste the edges closed with sewing machine, then serge them, then I make the soakers with my overlocker, then I do the snaps. Three takes me about 2-3 hours work, a nice afternoon pasttime on the weekend.

Don't let my dh see that! I vacuum up my scraps and snipped threads about once a month! I do have a sewing area so things can stay out, but it is also the stair landing and gets lots of traffic.

I also do a production line but might do all cutting one night, aplix/snaps the next, then do the seams, elastic and the rest of the sewing another night. If I have stuff ready to go, then I can pop up there for 15 minutes when I get a chance. I usually do 2 hours at night though. Takes about 1 hour from start to finish for most of my diapers, but I have done some in about 1/2 hour (pockets).

When I am using the same pattern for a bunch of diapers I like to group my cutting by type. For example, I will cut out a bunch of soakers, inners and outers and then match them up later.

[jillyofthevalley]

It takes me about 1 hour start to finish to do one fitted serged diaper with a snap-in soaker. I think that is about average. There was a thread in the WAHM forum a while ago with this same question and most of the wahm's said 1 hour. That made me feel much better! :LOL

[scheelimama]

I'm guessing it takes me 1-1.5 hours. I'm not that fast. I don't care much for making diapers for other people, but people always seem to be asking me. I really love to make diapers for my own children, but I think the reason I don't like to do it for others is b/c it takes me so long and I don't feel like I really make much profit. And I really put a lot of love into it, so I like to keep them around, ya' know. Anyway, that's a long answer to an easy question. Of course, it's never really an hour. It's usually days or even weeks, b/c of kids, life, etc. And, I hardly ever do one diaper at a time. I usually start and have several in the works at any given time, so it's really hard to say exactly how long it takes.

[jmreinke]

Uninterrupted - to make one of my PreFitteds (w/o fabric down the center) about 20-30 min, but I usually do them assembly line style and make 30-50 at a time, so that takes a couple of days (more like nights) to get all those done. It take a bit longer if I'm making a FabFold PreFitted. For some reason, adding that strip of fabric just sucks the time.