Cloth Diaper Sewing 101 Links: April 2013

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Fitteds, flap wraps, and prefolds Tutorials

Tutorials for making fitteds, prefitteds/prefold fitteds, flap wraps, prefolds, and flats. None of these are waterproof; see the cover tutorials post or the trainers and pull-on covers post.

Monday, April 22, 2013

Tutorials that can be used for any kind of diaper

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Sewing Machines and Learning to Sew/Serge

Sewing machines:

Buying a sewing machine, tips and reviews
Sewing machine information and reviews at PatternReview.com
Sewing Machine Needles - a chart from Feather's Flights
Craftsy's overview of 12 different types of sewing machine feet
Sewing machine basics video on creativebug
Craftsy's Sewing Machine 911 class - free
How To: Clean/Oil Your Sewing Machine at Make It & Love It
She's A Sewing Machine Mechanic's guide to cleaning and oiling your machine
How to Attach a Walking Foot: A Picture Tutorial at Vanilla Joy
Checklist of common sewing machine troubles (PDF)
Common sewing machine mistakes and how to fix them at Tilly and the Buttons

Learning to sew:

And serge:

Other Patterns

Mama:

Mama Cloth:

Baby/Toddler Clothes:

Nancy's Couture t-shirt trunks, shorts/underwear
Green Mommy's Easy up and down pants
Attached skirt and ruffle-bum leggings
Crap I've Made's Butt Ruffle Onesie Tutorial
This Mama Makes Stuff's Heirloom bloomers newborn pattern and tutorial
Sew A Straight Line's Boxer brief tutorial with size 3/4 pattern
Dana Made It diaper cover/bloomers pattern and tutorial - free
Indietutes Happy Bum pants tutorial
Maxiloones pants pattern (PDF) - $9.95
Opulent Monster Monster Bunz pants mega pack (PDF e-book)- $14.99
NICU smock for micropreemies-newborn size pattern and tutorial on Craftsy - free
Baste + Gather's Baby Got Back leggings for cloth diapered babies - free
House of Estrela's newborn onesie pattern and tutorial - free
Anna Maria Horner's knick-knack Knickers pattern, sizes 3 to 18 months (PDF)- free

Shoes:

Other:

Articles for all types of sewing
think liz free pattern roundup, including maternity/nursing and baby patterns
Jan Andrea/Sleeping Baby Productions carrier patterns and other tutorials
Schamelot no sew K'Tan style upcycled wrap carrier tutorial
Small doggie diaper tutorial
Large dog diaper pattern
Snapazoo animal
Pretty Prudent's DIY fabric crown tutorial with 6 templates
Pajama pants drafting and sewing tutorial at Riley Blake

Diaper Related Tutorials

Not diaper making tutorials, but for diaper accessories.

Wetbag tutorials

All Things Knitted and Crochet

Knitted or crocheted diaper covers 101
Wool 101 including wool care
Knitting Help learn to knit videos
New Stitch a Day learn to knit and crochet videos and tutorials
Loom Knit loom knitting tutorials and patterns
Tricksy Knitter's How to knit ruffles at least 8 different ways

Patterns:

Knit:

Arfy’s Freebie Longies/Shorties Pattern (Ravelry)- free
Curly Purly Soaker knit pattern (PDF) - free
Knitted soaker tutorial with optional ruffles
Little Fire Crochet Soaker & Skirty Pattern - free
Lil Aries knit soaker pattern with ruffle butt and skirty options - free
DROPS Design Wooliam ribbed longies for sizes 3-12 - free
Goodnight Sweet Dreams knitted gown pattern (Ravelry) - $5
WHW plain wrap knitted cover pattern (Ravelry) - free
Little Seedling knit wrap cover (Ravelry) - free
Ruffle skirted soaker (Ravelry) - free
Monster longies (Monsterbukse) (Ravelry) - free
Snapdragon soaker (Ravelry) - free
Pimp my Longies pattern - free
Spud and Chloe triangle style knitted soaker pattern - free
DROPS Knitted pants - free
Pa Avigsdan knitted pants - free
Sling-style extra wetzone layer for knit longies/longie doubler (Ravelry) - free

Crochet:

Dandelion Daydreamer crocheted cover, shorties, longies (Ravelry) - free
Amy's crochet diaper wrap - free
Mammy Made crochet longies Pattern - free
Zoe stretchy ribbed crochet soaker - free
Cat's One Piece Wonder crochet diaper cover (Ravelry) - free
Easiest Crochet Wool Soaker Pattern (Ravelry) - free
Little Fire Crochet Pants pattern - free
Cloverchild's Super Bum Tunisian crochet soaker - free

Sources for yarn:

Knitmap local yarn shop finder
WEBS Yarn
Paradise Fibers
KnitPicks
Check Amazon, Etsy, Hyenacart, and Artfire for yarn as well, especially if you want a particular color combination
Unraveling sweaters for upcycled yarn tutorial on About.com

Fabrics and Other Supplies - what to use and where to buy

There are many fabric choices for making diapers. These resources will help you figure out what to use and where to get it if you can't find things locally.

Online sources for fabric:

Kids in the Garden diaper making fabrics and supplies including fasteners and FOE
Nature's Fabrics natural fiber and organic fabrics
Diaper Sewing Supplies.com
Emerald City Fabrics mostly quilting fabrics
ShuShu Style quilting fabrics
The Fabric Fairy
FOE Your Diaper.com
KAM snaps, pliers, and presses
Wazoodle diaper making fabrics and notions
Kinderel Fabrics bamboo, cotton, and hemp
Simplifi Fabric organic and designer knits
Very Baby diaper supplies and patterns
Girl Charlee fashion knits
Mill Yardage outlet for Malden Mills poly fleece

Dyeing Resources:

Paula Burch's All About Hand Dyeing
Dharma Trading dyes and dyeing tutorials

Trainers and Pull On Covers

Patterns and tutorials, wide range of sizes

KatrinaStyle soaker, side snapping soaker, and longies patterns (Google Docs)
WitteyBums Soaker
Arfy's Katrina soaker tutorial
Little Bundas how to sew Katrina longies video tutorial, part 1
Little Bundas how to sew Katrina longies video tutorial, part 2
Upcycled Wool Pants PDF Tutorial
smorgan's DIY double layer shorties tutorial
Fleece Pocket Trainer Tutorial
Goodness Gracious Trainer pattern - free
Arfy's Upcycled Wool Shorties tutorial
Arfy's FOE Plus Cased Elastic Trainer tutorial and templates
Arfy's FOE Trainer tutorial and templates
Arfy's Cased Elastic Trainer tutorial and templates
Wool in 2 EC pants/trainers free pattern and tutorial
New Conceptions side-closure trainer pattern $12.95
New Conceptions Sleep Dry Briefs pattern - up to size 16! $12.95
Easy up and down pants
Ditto Daddy girls' trainer patterns - $8.95
Ditto Daddy boys' trainer patterns - $8.95
Easy on potty training pants pattern and tutorial
Trimsies Diaper or trainer Pattern $8
Do-it-yourself EC blog with wool, PUL, and non-waterproof patterns
Pull-up style cloth training pants video tutorial
Bella Bums Boy Undies and Trainer - $8
Adding feet to longies
Side snap fleece soaker or pocket trainer tutorial
Elysium Underwear Style Training Pants sizes 6-9 months to 8-10 years - $7.50
Je M’appelle Bébé Tiny Panties (PDF) sizes 3 mos to 3T - free
KCK Snap-On Pull-Off Trainer Patterns, infant to child sizes - free
KCK Snap-On Pull-Off Trainer Patterns, large child to adult sizes - free
KCK One OS pattern in large children's, tween, adult, and large adult - free
Mamma Can Do It Special Needs Diaper pattern, 22"-58" waist/hip - $10
Mamma Can Do It Sized Adult Diaper pattern, 22"-75" waist/hip - $10
Fishsticks Designs Little Fishies Undies - $9.75
Small Dream Factory 2T-4T bikini style underwear pattern and tutorial - free
The Mom Road's Pull-on training pants pattern with PUL in the wet zone - free
Aquarius swimmer swim diaper tutorial
chrissyrang's Grovia/Flip style wipeable trainer tutorial
OwlHaven's PUL pull-on covers with FOE tutorial and sm and med patterns
Leap! Semi DIY training underwear tutorial
Pajama pants drafting and sewing tutorial at Riley Blake, suitable for longies

The Wee Weka patterns are from The Nappy Network, who asks for a link back to their site if you link their patterns. They have some helpful tutorials as well.

Wee Weka Trainer free pattern and tutorial (PDF)

Diaper Patterns - Duo Sized

The fourth and final installment of diaper patterns, these are duo-sized:

Arfy's M/L Ruffled Fitted - Free
Arfy's NB/S Fitted - Free
Rocket Bottoms 2 Step Complete Diaper Pattern - $10
Rocket Bottoms Totally Squared OS and NB/S Pattern -$8
Baa Baa Baby Large fold down rise Fitted Pattern - Free
Baa Baa Baby Small fold down rise Fitted Pattern - Free

The following Wee Weka patterns are provided by The Nappy Network. Check out their site for tutorials and pattern reviews.

Wee Weka S/M Fitted or Pocket (PDF) - Free
Wee Weka S/M Pocket with Gussets (PDF) - Free
Wee Weka S/M Side Snapping Pocket (PDF) - Free
Wee Weka M/L Side Snapping Pocket (PDF) - Free
Wee Weka NB/S FOE Cover with Gussets (PDF) - Free

Diaper Patterns - One Size

Here you'll find many different one-size diaper patterns.

Fattycakes Side Snapping Pattern - $6
NykiBaby One Size Diaper - $9.75
Arfy's OS Squaretab - Free
Arfy's OS Squaretab AIO with Inner Cutout - Free
Arfy's Longer Wing Squaretab - Free
Arfy's OS Round Wing - Free
Arfy's Multi Wing Fitted - Free
Arfy's OS Flat Wrap Fitted - Free
Arfy's OS Ruffled Fitted, xs-xl - free
Arfy's OS FOE Cover - Free
Arfy's OS T & T Cover - Free
Arfy's Flip style template - free
Arfy's Mock Grobaby template - free
Archived OS Pattern from Clothbaby (PDF) - Free
Rita's Rump (RRP) Diaper and Cover Patterns - Free
The Hippy Snappy Nappy OS (PDF) - Free
Heather's Hipsters OS- Free
Rocket Bottoms Totally Squared plus bonus NB/SM Pattern - $8
Rocket Bottoms OS Fitted Diaper Pattern - $5
Rocket Bottoms“OS” Petite Fitted featuring the OS soaker system - $5
Rocket Bottoms Twist Pocket OS Diaper Pattern -$7
Rocket Bottoms In A Snap Cover OS Pattern - $6
Baa Baa Baby Infant Size Prefold to Fitted (PDF) - Free
Baa Baa Baby Premium Size Prefold to Fitted (PDF) - Free
KCK One™ infant OS pattern - free
WittyBums OS Hip Close - Free
Ittybittybums AIO/AI2 cloth diaper pattern (PDF) - $10.00
Erickson & Co. OS pocket diaper with adjustable buttonhole elastic tutorial and pattern
Krystal Querner's Simplex style AIO pattern and tutorial - free

These are patterns for sized diapers, as opposed to OS (one-size) patterns. Here is a chart of the average measurements of several newborn, small, large, extra large, and one size (OS) diapers for comparison. The OS patterns and tutorial links will follow in future posts.

Quick Snap Flap Wrap - free
Quick Snap Flap Wrap short wing version - free
Winged Prefold - free
Arfy's sized squaretab templates, xs-xl - free
Arfy's NB/S Fitted - free
Arfy's Sized Fitted test pattern - free
Arfy's Sized Flat-wrap Fitted - free
EZ Dipe 2, xxs-xl - free
THE HIP SNAPPY NAPPY XL - free
CookiePants small and medium sized patterns (PDF) - free
Cloth Revolution - free
Baa Baa Baby Side Snap Diaper Cover Pattern (PDF) - Free
Baa Baa Baby Large fold down rise Fitted Diaper Pattern (PDF) - Free
Baa Baa Baby Small fold down rise Fitted Diaper Pattern (PDF) - Free
Chloe Toes side snapping FOE cover pattern (archived PDF) - free
Aquarius Swimmer pattern (PDF) - free
Teri's medium sized side snapping diaper with rolled elastic - free
LaDiDa pattern - $8.50
Trimsies Diaper or trainer Pattern - $8, both patterns $15
Rocket Bottoms Side Snapper Pattern - $5
Rocket Bottoms Totally Squared NB/SM and OS Pattern - $8
Rocket Bottoms Twist Pocket Diaper Pattern, Complete (5 sizes nb-OS) - $14
Rocket Bottoms Twist Pocket Sized Pattern - $9
Rocket Bottoms In A Snap Cover Pattern, Complete (5 sizes nb-OS) - $10
Rocket Bottoms In A Snap Cover Sized Pattern - $8
Rocket Bottoms 2 Step Complete Diaper System Pattern - $10
Fishsticks Designs Green Beginnings cloth diaper pattern - $9.75
KCK Sized Cloth Diaper Pattern - free
Tighty Whitey hipster - free
Not So Flat Wrap - free
Little Grabby Hands rear-snapping diaper pattern sizes M and L - free

The Wee Weka patterns are from The Nappy Network, who asks for a link back to their site if you link their patterns. They have some helpful tutorials as well.

Wee Weka S/M fitted or pocket (PDF) - free
Wee Weka S/M pocket with gussets and FOE (PDF) - free
Wee Weka S/M side snap pocket (PDF) - free
Wee Weka M/L side snap pocket (PDF) - free
Wee Weka S serged fitted, contour, and snap-in insert (PDF) - free
Wee Weka NB/S FOE cover with gussets (PDF) - free
PaddyPants LG fitted and FOE cover - free

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Newborn Diapers

Next up is info on newborn diapers, including tutorials and patterns for newborn and preemie sizes.

Newborn pattern review project (Rachel O's blog) with comparisons of most of the currently available newborn size range patterns, including OTB shots.

Patterns

Patterns suitable for newborns can also be found under sized patterns and duo sized patterns.

Arfy's Newborn Squaretab - free
Arfy's Universal Newborn Squaretab template - free
Arfy's NB Serged Fitted - free
Arfy's NB Serged AIO/AI2 - free
Arfy's NB/S FOE Cover - free
Arfy's NB/SM Tuckable cover pattern - free
Arfy's NB/S fitted - free
Arfy's preemie pattern for 3 to 4.5lbs - free
Arfy's preemie pattern for 4.5 to 6.5 lbs - free
Arfy's newborn prefitted template for prepped prefolds - free
Darling Diapers Unlimited newborn pattern (PDF) (Darlingdiapers.com) - free
Baa Baa Baby newborn fitted pattern with snap down umbilical notch (PDF) - free
Je M’appelle Bébé Preemie Pattern (PDF) - free
Rocket Bottoms Preemie/XS Pattern - free
Rocket Bottoms Newborn Diaper Pattern - free
Little Green Bear PreMe Pattern - free
Little Starter XXS (PDF) - free

The next patterns are from the Nappy Network, who requests a link back to their site.

Wee Weka NB/S FOE cover with gussets (PDF) - free
Shar's newborn pocket with umbilical scoop (PDF) - free
Shar's newborn pocket for chubby thighs or hip harness (PDF) - free
Shar's newborn side snap pocket (PDF) - free
Shar's newborn fitted (PDF) - free

Tutorials

While these tutorials are specific to newborn patterns, the tutorials for each type of diaper also work with the newborn and newborn/small patterns below.

Making your first diaper

From the CD Sewing 101 board on Babycenter.com, here are the links we chose for making your first diaper. You can make your very first diaper for cheap or even free! You just need a free pattern, an old cotton or bamboo t-shirt, some elastic, and a needle and thread. Sewing machine optional but it does go much faster with one. ;)