Flats are no longer doing it for me. They are great in the early days, but getting them folded to just the right length and putting them into the cover just so, and getting it on a baby who is desperately trying to get away... I'm over it. So my flats need a new purpose. A diapering purpose so that I don't need to buy any more diapers.
Initially this project was an attempt to make my flats into fitteds. But the elastic gathering in the legs was really a hassle. I made a lovely casing, but it was just too bulky to really snug up with elastic. Look, it's terrible, right? We can either blame the number of layers of fabric or the burnt-out-ness of the elastic--I salvaged it from an old, ill-fitting item of clothing. At least I didn't waste new elastic on this endeavor.
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So I think I will sidle over into slightly different territory and not worry about the elasticated legs, but make this more like a contour diaper. We'll see how that works instead.
I may even try to make different thicknesses of diapers, (maybe somehow labelled with different colored threads to discern which is which) so that they can serve different purposes. Another twist I'm planning is to dye the outer layer of the diaper (but not the inner) before sewing it for colorful coverless times.
Here's the prototype in the testing stage. I already have a few modifications planned to make the fit around the legs better.
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