Showing posts with label setting snaps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label setting snaps. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Babyville

One of my projects coming up is to make cloth diapers for my sister-in-law (I think of her more as a niece).
I have been totally intimidated by this, even though I have three children. Wicking fabrics, or at least that title, are relatively new to the home sewing industry. Here I am, making something dependent on wicking fabric. I can only wonder- is there a right side and a wrong side? If I sew it together backwards, will it hold the wetness against the baby? Things like that.
But tonight I went to the fabric store, and was roaming the isles. I ended up in Babyville. Babyville is a line of products designed to simplify making cloth diapers. Not only did I run into the section, full of bolts of PLU (the waterproof knit used for diaper covers), but everything was 30% off!
That didn't bring the PLU down to the $7.99 a yard I found on fabrics.com, but the $20 snap setter pliers were reduced to $13, and that made me very happy.
I bought all the notion type supplies, ran home and whipped out that snap setter, because the wicked little snaps had me curious about the point- I couldn't imagine using points near a baby. It smashes! I love it. When you squease the plier, it puts a target design on the now flat end of the snap. They look so professional.
I will blog about the making of my little newborn diapers as I do them. I'm so excited. Anyone who knows me knows I have been a baby nut since I was at least two. Diapers were always at the top of my list.