Very Cheap Cloth Diapers!

by Kelly
(U.S.A)

I did some research on cloth diapers, I didn't want to spend alot of money because i don't have the money to spend. So I decided the best way to go is to make my own, I looked up videos on youtube on how to do the cloth diapers, but everyone had sewing machines, and fancy cloths, and all sorts of pricey stuff to make there cloth diapers.

So I thought to myself you really only need four things to make a cloth diaper. I didn't have a sewing machine, and i don't have the money to spend on all this materials.

1. any type of material for the outside.
2. a water proof barrier.
3. a way to keep the diaper on the baby.



So I looked around my house. for materials it can be anything u like, old jeans, a shirt your don't use, i used my shower curtian! it worked great. then i took my baby's diaper and traces in outline of it onto a piece of paper, make sure you make the outline bigger then the diaper because as you sew the diaper shrinks.

After you have your outline put it on top of your materiel you chose and cut. make sure you cut two pieces.

After you have your two pieces you can add your elastic for the legs, or not. i didn't use elastic I didn't have any, and just to let you know my diaper covers don't leak. They're fine without it. Or if you really want to use the elastic you can take some from underwear you never use or such.

After you sew your elastic take your water proof barrier - it can be anything that is water proof. I went to the dollar store and bought these table place mats that are water proof and cut it to the shape of the diaper. It was one dollar for 48 of them. Or you can use a shower curtain liner, or a water proof mattress cover, or water proof table cloth. Anything like that works.

What I do to make sure the water proof barrier stays secure to the diaper is I sew them on all four corners to the diaper, i know it pokes a hold thought the barrier but your child dosen't pee at the tip top of the diaper so you wont have any issues.

After that take your second piece of cloth and you have two options, you can either make a diaper cover, or a pocket diaper. Sew it to your first piece of the cloth. After your done it should look like you have a diaper.

If you're doing a pocket diaper be sure not to sew the back end closed, leave that open for you to slide your absorbent materiel inside the pocket.

Now to keep the diaper together on your baby, you can pin it, I don't recommend that though. Or you can do velcro, or buttons. I used buttons on some and velcro on others, it's your choice.


Just to let you know I sewed all my cloth diapers by hand because i don't have anything like a sewing machine, it took alot of time but it saved alot of money, and they're wonderful!

I love them and they work great and don't leak. Remember when you use cloth diapers you do have to change your baby more because when your using disposables, they have those beads in them that can just absorb like crazy. But with cloth it only absorbs so much. So change your baby ever three hours, more if needed.

Well I hope my tips helped. And you can always fool around and get creative and switch things up or add stuff. But I hope some of my tips will lead to better ideas.