Sewing Cloth Diapers

I am currently working on sewing cloth diapers for Little Man. 

He is 10 months old (WOW! How time flies!)

I prefer using cloth diapers because it is waaaayyyy cheaper than using disposables and I don't have to lather all this chemical-filled stuff on their booties.  My Little Lady is now 2 years, 9 months old AND she's POTTY TRAINED! Woooo!!!! 

*I couldn't have done it without my husband. He was so helpful!*

I watched a lot of youtube videos and read through quite a few tutorials before diving into making cloth diapers. I went out on a limb and purchased the RocketBottoms One Size Fitted Diaper. I bought it on etsy from a 3rd party, but that was before I knew she had her own website and shop. I've sewed one *turned and top stitched* and I love it! It is a great pattern and comes with wonderful instructions and WITH PICTURES! I want to try making one with fold over elastic. I am hoping it will be faster since I don't have to feed and tack down elastic through the small casings. Which isn't hard to do, it's just time consuming. And in this house free time to sew is VERY limited. The only problem I had, and this was TOTAL user error, was that I forgot to take out my safety pin (used for feeding the elastic) and sewed the diaper shut. I only realized it when my thread broke as the needle got too close to it while top stitching. Oops! And that was headache to remove.

I used an old receiving blanket for the outside layer and two t-shirt layers inside.

There is a snap for the prefolds I converted to inserts.

 I am using Little Lady's old, small prefolds as inserts. I simply snap them into the diaper. Works great!

GMD small prefold converted into an insert. Pictured here is one outer section zig zagged onto middle piece.

I also made some fleece covers to use with the snap inserts. I used this pattern and this tutorial to make my side-snapping fleece covers.

 I made three using an old fleece blanket and anti-pill remnant I found on sale at JoAnns. I really like using these fleece covers at home. I want to make more! 

I've purchased some PUL from JoAnn's and am in the process of making some covers. I hope to finish at least two this weekend as well as two more cloth diapers using the RocketBottoms pattern and this pattern I found over at prefold2fitted.blogspot.com