[PDeSoToK]

I saw the thread below about purchasing wool liners and wondered if someone could describe how to use them?

Does the wool liner go between the material against the baby's skin and the diaper?

If this is how it is put in the diaper, then the fitted diaper can be worn without a cover?

I know how to crochet and it would be easy to make up some wool liners...if they keep the fitteds (like CuddleBuns) from leaking. I would

to be able to take my baby girl out in a pretty fitted without a cover!

TYVM!

 

[grisandole]

You can use them in a fitted diaper w/out cover! You put it in the diaper, and then I put a fleece liner over it, so the fleece is next to baby's skin. The fleece wicks the moisture to the wool soaker, which soaks it up!

HTH

Kristi

 

[PDeSoToK]

Wow! That sounds awesome!

I am going to have to find some wool to crochet a liner or two and try it out.

Would you happen to know what type of wool should be used? I am thinking it would be just *wool* and I should just find *wool*, but thought I would ask anyway. I've never crocheted with wool...LOL!

TYVM!!!

 

[sweetladyaz]

Would wool jersey work the same way as well, I wonder? And for that matter, has anyone ever used a dipe where the soaker was make of wool? Is it more absorbent than hemp or cotton??

LOL..sorry for the dingy questions, but there is so much to remember for a beginner like me!

 

[Artisan]

I love my wool liners! Wool is naturally water resistant, so the first thing it does is force the absorbent material to hold EVERYTHING it can. (If you're using a pocket diaper, you would put it under the insert or CPF. If you're using a fitted or quick dry diaper, you would put it under a doubler.) Once the absorbent material is saturated, it starts to soak up moisture, and it can absorb about 40% of its weight before feeling wet.

The liners I use are crocheted from 100% virgin wool. This is important -- it needs to be 100% wool, and it can't be superwash wool. You can machine wash and dry the liners, and they felt up and become even more moisture resistant. You don' have to lanolize, and you only have to wash them when they start to smell.

I would imagine sewing a doubler from wool jersey to go UNDER a regular diaper would work *ok*. I think the thicker, felted wool would do much better. I also don't think a doubler made of wool would work -- because it's naturally moisture resistant, you'd probably have leaking, as it takes a while for wool to start absorbing. (If you drop water on a wool cover, it immediately beads up, and takes a minute to soak in. You don't want that next to your baby's skin.)

HTH!