She hated sewing the velcro, she fought with the elastic, she doesn't really get the point of fancy cute diapers (she just used prefolds when my husband was little), she kept tweaking the pattern--but something in her couldn't quite resist the challenge, and so here they are, my new grandma-made fitted diapers--ten of 'em! Well, fifteen, actually, but I got ten today.
Most of the stash, showing the three cute prints
A closeup
On our lovely model
Hooray! Good containment at the legs!
They're turned and topstiched, using these directions, at least as a starting point, and a fairly heavily altered Mama Bird pattern.
Ostensibly, this was "our" project, but in the first two days of working on it, we managed to wring out one less than perfect prototype, and I mostly contributed by cutting things up. That day she took home four cut out "kits" and made them up on her own, and then she took home the rest of my filler-flannel (a yardsale sheet set) and added cute fabric from her stash and old towels, and surprised and delighted us by making ten more! They fit well, and they absorb like crazy. Considering that she usually only quilts, and considering how much the various quirks and imprecisions of the process irked her, I can only repeat--
My MIL rocks!
Oh, and she also made the awesome quilted ball you can see in the picture of the whole stash, and she's also working on a custom-designed diaper bag for me. And she never tells me how to raise my kid. Yeah, be jealous!
Most of the stash, showing the three cute prints
A closeup
On our lovely model
Hooray! Good containment at the legs!
They're turned and topstiched, using these directions, at least as a starting point, and a fairly heavily altered Mama Bird pattern.
Ostensibly, this was "our" project, but in the first two days of working on it, we managed to wring out one less than perfect prototype, and I mostly contributed by cutting things up. That day she took home four cut out "kits" and made them up on her own, and then she took home the rest of my filler-flannel (a yardsale sheet set) and added cute fabric from her stash and old towels, and surprised and delighted us by making ten more! They fit well, and they absorb like crazy. Considering that she usually only quilts, and considering how much the various quirks and imprecisions of the process irked her, I can only repeat--
My MIL rocks!
Oh, and she also made the awesome quilted ball you can see in the picture of the whole stash, and she's also working on a custom-designed diaper bag for me. And she never tells me how to raise my kid. Yeah, be jealous!
awesome!
