Saturday, January 4, 2014

Diapers trump makeup case.

If you're a mother then you know your child's toys, bibs, sippy cups, wipes, diapers, changing pad, etc take over your purse. So your favorite items can get pushed out of your purse very easily. None of it bothers me except for random diapers floating about, pulling out a wipes case to realize it's not your wallet, or my personal favorite pulling out your wallet and having all the above fly out.
I have friends tell me "Buy a bag to put diaper changing stuff in". I like the idea...but not enough to spend X amount of dollars on it. Cue light bulb please! I'll make one instead with scrap fabric but it won't be a bag. I've decided to make a cloth wrap (with velcro) for my sons diaper hoopla.

I made the width to match his changing pad as it was the widest. Then I stacked his pad, two diapers, and wipes case to measure enough length so it'll overlap a couples inches. I did two diapers because you never know when you'll have multiple poop explosions.

The picture could be better but hopefully you get the idea. The width for my wrap is 9 inches BUT I tacked on an extra inch for my 1\2 inch seam allowances. Overall I cut 10 inches for my width.


My wrap around length is 15 1\2 inches as shown below. But I knew that I wanted an overlap to hold more or less if needed. So my overall length with seam allowances is 18 inches.


I also cut put a piece of my "beloved" batting to add stability and of course plushness.  I did your basic single stitch around the edges leaving a hole to pull the right sides out and do a top stitch.




Time to place your Velcro and sew it on.


I'm happy with how my wrap turned out and can't wait to put it to good use.



There will not be a link posted because I didn't use any specific pattern or tutorial. And just so we're clear I AM NOT taking any credit for "inventing" this diaper wrap. It's stupid to write something like that but with crazy people today you have to CYA.

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