The diapers are officially finished. Here and some of them in his drawer and some hanging on the line in the basement. Hopefully we’ll be able to hang them outside this summer. I still have bunches of fabric left, but I think I will save that in case we wear through any of them. I’ve had to do a quick repair or two, quality control was more interested in napping on the fabric than in inspecting the workmanship.

I had a busy week on the crafting home-front. I finished up cloth diapers for Boo. He now has 25 homemade ones and 6 purchased ones. I’m using the purchased ones for overnight as they seem a bit more absorbent. I may make more, I need to get the too-small diapers out of rotation and have two or three days at home to evaluate the quantity. I have plenty of fabric to make conservatively 15-20 more. I can’t see needing anywhere near that many. I’d like to save the fabric to make smaller or larger sizes in the event we need other sizes. The ones I made have hook and loop closures so that it grows with Boo, hopefully to as big as he needs.

I won a contest from The Counting Sheep Farm. I get a surprise box along with some superwash fiber I ordered. I’ve been participating in a stash down contest. Please don’t ask why I am buying more fiber while I am stashing down, I just am. I wanted some sock yarn and I don’t want to spin wool that I have to hand wash, so I saw she had some superwash on sale. The only contest is to challenge ourselves to knit/spin from the stash. We earn points that we can redeem in the store for a percentage of one item or several depending on the number of points we redeem. I added points this week by wrestling with my works in progress. Along the way Rachel, of Counting Sheep, offers mini-contests where we can earn coolie prizes. Stay tuned for pictures of what’s in my goodie box. To participate in the stash down for points and win any contests you must be a member of Ravelry and join the group for Counting Sheep Farm.

I finished a dishcloth that had been on the needles because I ran out of yarn. I finally found the yarn and reunited it with the dishcloth. I’ve made a bunch of these garterlac dishcloths. Feel free to search the archives for more. It’s a neat looking dishcloth that let’s one practice enterlac easily without fear of messing up “good” yarn.

I also finished my first handspun project, a hedgehog. I spin the brown belly and creamy paws. There is actually one strand of homespun brown knit with one strand of fun fur, but it’s difficult to see in the pictures. There are no eyes or nose because Boo is too small to have those pieces on his toys. He seems to like to grab at the fun fur, much the same as he grabs at the furbabies in the house. At least with the hedgehog he’s not hurting anyone.

While I understand I will need to use disposable diapers on rare occasions, I am hoping to use cloth the majority of the time. So, I’ve been checking prices for premade cloth diapers and it’s not pretty, so it occurred to me that I might be able to make some. Here’s my list of patterns on the “interwebs” so far:

http://diaperfabric.com/

http://diaperpages.com/pockets.php

http://www.diapersewing.com/

http://fernandfaerie.com/sewing_fitteds.html

http://goodnessgraciousdiaper.wordpress.com/

http://handmadebyrita.blogspot.com/

http://mayna.livejournal.com/198548.html

http://www.thefamilyhomestead.com/clothdiapers.htm – suggests using Wal-Mart flannel

http://thepeacefulpeacock.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/tutorial-make-your-own-cloth-diapers-part-1/

http://thepeacefulpeacock.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/tutorial-making-your-own-cloth-diapers-part-2/

http://thepeacefulpeacock.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/tutorial-making-your-own-cloth-diapers-part-3/

http://verybaby.com/

http://webpages.charter.net/rhamley/diapers/diapertext1.htm

Diaper making supplies:

http://wahmsupply.com/shop/

I have ordered from here and am pleased so far.

http://www.celticclothswholesale.com/

http://www.clothplanet.com/cloth-diaper-pattern.html

http://directory.diaperjungle.com/directory/index.php?id=15

http://www.sewingclothdiapers.com/sewing-resources.html

Pre-made diaper sets for sale:

http://www.angelwraps.com/