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Originally Posted by megamom
What about sewing a layer of medium weight fleece over a layer of PUL for the outer? Will that work?
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I'm sure that would work, but not sure why you would want to do it that way unless you really liked the fleece print, but didn't want the bulk of two layers of fleece.
I agree that the link listed is great! Here is another one I found incredably helpful when I started out
http://www.diapershop.com/index.php/action/glossary/ All those glossaries offer a wealth of information. Here's my two cents
Fitted diapers need a cover to be waterproof, all you have to worry about is making them absorbant enough. You can make them with anything 80% cotton or higher or hemp or bamboo (which are also absorbant) Anyfabric will do, but if you are using a thin fabric you need a LOT of layers. 8-10 for flannel, 6-8 for interlock (think about a heavy tshirt), 5-6 for hemp or a heavy fleece. The amount of layers necessary also depends on your child because some kids pee normally (not sure quite what that is) and some kids FLOOD, a newborn usually doesn't pee a whole lot just very, very often, but you still want a decent ammount of layers. You can test layer absorbancy by seing how much water you can pour onto it before it drips, I would think that if it holds 1/4cup you would be doing good for a newborn, but someone may correct me on that. Adding cute cotton prints is SUPER easy when working with fitteds, just cut the print as the outer layer.
Pocket diapers are diapers that have a waterproof/ resistant outer, a microfleece or suedcloth inner and a place for you to stuff absorbant material in. You can use PUL or fleece as your outer. Microfleece is a special type of fleece that lets moisture through it and then feels dry giving your baby that dry feeling on his bum, suedcloth does the same thing. You can use the same stuff in the fitted diapers to make your inserts for pockets. If you see a print on these it is because someone bought print PUL, check out
www.diapercuts.com for lots of great print PUL. If you just try to add a cotton print outer to a pocket it usually will wick (carry wetness through it) horribly and you will have a drippy wet baby to change.
AIOs have the waterproof/resistant outer and the insert of absorbant material sewn in. Depending on how you make these you can add a cotton print to the outside and have it work, but you still need the fleece or PUL layer to make it waterproof. If you use FOE (fold over elastic), then it will work becuse the cottonlayer is blocked from touching the absorbant material by the PUL and FOE. I know there is another way to make a cotton print outer AIO, but I'm not sure how it works someone posted about it here with some great instructions, but I don't make diapers that way so I don't remember them.
HTH
