I posted earlier about making my newborn stash of fitteds with wool covers! Well I have been working hard to upcycle 2 knit sheets into some Darling Diaper fitteds for a newbie and now I'm going to show them off!
I made these with the free Darling Diapers red pattern from her site here: http://www.darlingdiapers.com/Darling%20Diapers%20Free%20Newborn%20Fitted%20Pattern2009.pdf
I made one diaper from the xs newborn pattern and one diaper from the larger newborn yellow pattern. When I was done, I noticed that the xs newborn pattern was about the same size as mainstream newborns and the yellow pattern was more of a size small. I wanted a true newborn sized diaper so I went with the red pattern.
Total cost for this project was $4 dollars for the knit sheets, I used scrap pieces of cotton velour for the tops of the doubler so around $6, and elastic $6 = a grand total of $16 for 24 fitteds. $0.66 cents per diaper! If I added snaps that goes up to $1.66 cents. Not bad for a stash of newborn diapers!
Layers are 8 layer internal soaker, 2 layers for knit tie dye outers, and 6 layers for the doubler. I think they are adorable and gender neutral without being bland! The one thing I would have changed would have been to have 2 more layers throughout the body of the diaper to add stability. I wanted to place snaps but the knit fabric isn't strong enough with just 2 layers. I am brainstorming ideas to strengthen the snapping areas, but will be totally happy using a snappi if that doesn't pan out.
