Our third
child is due to arrieve soon, and this time I going to try cloth diapers. I
have never used a cloth diaper for any of the boys. For our first son we bought
ordinary baby wet wipes and diapers, and his little bottom often went red. Then
we replaced the wet wipes with terry cloth wipes which we soak in water and use
with vegetable oil to clean him, and his skin was much less irritated. So, the
next step is to try the more breathable cloth diapers.
I want to
avoid non-natural fibers, like PUL-fabrics. However, this means that I have to
get my hands on wool soakers. I would like to knit the soakers, but I don’t see
that I will have time to make them!
Fortunately, my mother, grandmother and mother-in-law have stepped in to assist
me!
My grandmother made the first three diaper soakers:
For the covers without legs she used
the free diaper soaker pattern from Ottobre Design, size 0-8 month.
And knitted
in “flossagarn” from Lankava, Finland.
Flossagarn
is yarn that is unspun and very delicately threated to maintain the natural wool
fat, lanolin.
The diaper cover with legs are made after the pattern "
Samuels ullbyxa".
My
mother-in-law has made this diaper cover, using the same flossagarn as above and the Ottobre pattern:
*** Picture is coming soon ***
We have
left these pair of knickers unsewn. I intend to insert KAM-snaps in order to
make them adjustable.
Since the
Ottobre pattern is rather large in size, I wanted to try another pattern and
another yarn. I ordered a pattern and yarn from Askeladen, Denmark.
During the holidays
we have spent a few hours in our car, and I took the opportunity to try the
Askeladen pattern myself:
I did the
soakers a bit smaller than described in the pattern. There are 60 stitches
around the waist.
So, now I
will go on and make/source diapers.
