Adventures in Cloth Diaper making

Here is my adventures in Diaper making. This is the first diaper I have made so far. It is so soft that my baby is going to be sitting on a little bit of heaven. The inner layer is made from Suedecloth and after feeling how soft it is, perhaps I will be making a pair of suedecoth undies for myself!!. ....and yes it is a very dark Grey (I got a really good deal on it), and besides the grey won't show the stains all that easily. The suedecloth is great because it is a wicking fabric meaning when you get it wet the water doesn't absorb into the fabric but goes through it and is absorbed by the insert of absorbant fabric and the moisture doesn't come back up through the seudecloth and so the baby feels dry.(I hope that makes sense)

The outer layer is a breathable soft waterproof fabric (tested with water yesterday) You can see up at the top there is an opening for layers of absorbant fabric to be inserted in before you put it on the baby. It will make cleaning these diapers a cinch!! Just pull out the inserts and throw it all in the washing machine. All layers get nice and clean and I don't have to spend a crazy amount of money on disposables each month. These have lovely snaps on them so they close very nicely and as easily as any disposable diaper out there.

I am seriously so excited to finish making them. I had a few challenges with this first one. But now I know what I'm supposed to do the others will take less thean 1/2 hour each to finish. I can see why people get addicted to diaper making! They are seriously the cutest things.

Outer Layer

Inner Layer (the little bit of heaven on my baby's bottom)

Belly Picture

For all the friends requesting it...........here is a picture of my belly. This was taken about a month ago or so..........I am a bit bigger than that now. I had to stand on the bed because it was the only place i could get a shot with a white wall background.

And i'm due in May........about 1 month from now.

4:30 am Ramblings

I woke up at 4:30 this morning and it wasn't because of my bladder. I tossed and turned trying not to disturb Corey. Finally an hour later I just rolled out of bed and decided I might as well get up. There is no point of lounging around in bed if your mind is totally on the GO. In the hopes of possibly relaxing enough to fall back to sleep, I put on the movie "Persuasion". Although I have watched it about 5 times in the last month, It is still one of my favorites.

If you have ever seen the cover picture of this movie it looks like it would be a bit promiscuous. One of my friends, who had borrowed it, was carrying it around for a couple of weeks in hopes of returning it to me. She had many people ask her what movie it was and instead of saying a Jane Austin movie, she left it pretty vague and just said the movie was mine. Leaving to the imagination of all those friends that I watch "certain types of movies"...... Gotta love it.

Last night we were watching the March Madness final game. It was a bit of a disappointing tournament for the Bjarnsons. By the end of the final four round our brackets were completely determined. It doesn't add to the excitement of the final game when you know who has already won the bracket pool. Anyway.....they were showing a flashback from an old win where the team was cutting down the hoop. In all my sports ingnorance, I asked Corey if they always cut down the hoop when they win the tournament, to which he replied that they cut it down and the whole team gets a piece of it. I thought about that and wondered what would you do with a small piece of Hoop? It is not llike it is a medal or trophy to display. It would look like a piece of junk just sitting on a shelf. Do people have it framed or put it in a jar? Then I thought it is pretty comparable to me receiving a piece of thread (not a spool of thread) for winning a quilting or sewing contest. I thought that was pretty silly to say the least and was laughing about it. Corey just rolled his eyes and decided that I wasn't as far along as he had thought in my appreciation and knowledge of sports. What can I say.....Silly traditions call for additional silly thoughts and exagerations.