Important Diapering Sources

While I was doing my diapering blogs, I came across many good sources for supplies including local stores: fabrics.com, and Etsy,  of course. But last night, finishing up my projects and thinking how I sure did enjoy making those little diapers, and maybe I should put some on my Etsy store, I found the best source yet: Wazoodle I'm sure this is where other vendors are getting their stuff. The snaps are incredibly cheap here. They are reasonably priced at the Etsy store I mention.

But one of the most exciting things for me is that they have a fabric called ZORB- it's supposed to be super absorbent after a few washes. I was trying while making the diapers to have only the best products for the job. Zorb is also not very expensive, as opposed to the enormously expensive microfiber which was also fragile.

I never did blog on the soaker pads. Here are the supplies for a soaker in order of assembly:
1 layer flannel (top)
2 layers super absorbent fabric (the one I used said not to use it next to baby's skin because it was so absorbent it would leach moisture from baby. hmmm. So I covered it with flannel. Not so sure you'd need that on Zorb. It didn't have that warning.
1 layer regular terry.
Apply snap to the bottom two layers (so that it has the reinforcement of two layers)

I sewed a straight stitch around about 1" in from edge to catch that fragile microfiber layer, then used a stitched zig zag (not the simple zig zag, but one that has 3 stitches per zig) around the edge. I was using a bound serge stitch but that takes forever and you are making 20-30 soakers.

Doubler:
3 layers of Microfiber super fabric or Zorb.
both sets of snaps. On one side apply what I'd call the male part, on the other side put the female side. I had cut 4 layers of microfiber and put the snap through two layers on each side then cut the middle away on the 4th layer- it was way too thick. 3 layers seems about right.