cloth doll diaper

[Ideesmom]

I want to make some cloth doll diapers for my daughter for christmas. Anyone have a good pattern or ideas? We are expecting our 2nd in Dec. and she wants to help change diapers soooo bad.

[Mel L]

How big is the doll? Some dolls are big enough for preemie or even nb sized diapers. If the doll is smaller, you could always reduce a preemie diaper pattern.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sewingdiapers/

This group has a free diaper pattern in its files. I don't know if I can link it if you are not a member.

[love2bmom]

If you have any commercial baby layette patterns (Buterick, etc.) they often have a diaper cover pattern with them. You could use that and just shrink it on a copier if needed.
I've made a few doll diapers, I wish all of dd dollies has similar sized bums...

[Granny Anny]

There is a doll napppy pattern on the Wee Weka site -- I like it best of the 3 I've tried so far.

[alreilly]

I just made some mini-cloth diapers for fun - sort of a diaper bag bling... and I never sewed an acutal diaper before.

All I did was eyeball what I "thought" a cloth diaper should look like in mini form.... or you could take a cloth diaper (all in one, pocket, fitted, etc.) and just eyeball in making it smaller.

I drew my shape on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper (I really only needed a portion of that paper), cut it out - and used that as a a pattern piece. Then taking that pattern piece I cut two - one from an old stained onesie that someone gave me, and one from some old flannel fabric I had lying around. I put right sides together and stitches around it.... making some puckering around the legs (since a baby isn't going to wear it - it didn't need to be elastic), leaving an opening at one end.

I then attached velcro and it was done!

So...... what you could do is after eyeballing it, drawing it, and cutting it out - you can measure the paper against your DD dolls to see if they would fit. Adjust the size from there and you should be good to go - sewing one in less than 10 minutes.

If you have questions - PM me and I'd be glad to help... I am no expert by any means - just a crafty person who has to try everything once!

:-) AL

[Ideesmom]

thanks for all the ideas. I played around last night and made one with some flannel scraps that turned out quite well. I just have to get some velcro, which I thought I had and cant find now !!

[Lissybug]

I think Chloe Toes has a free doll diaper patter on their site too.