Friday, August 3, 2012

Sunbaby-ish Pocket Diaper

 I don't know how many of you know that I designed the original Sunbaby 4.0 hip snap layout for Sunpei.  (sunbabydiapers.com)  I bought a dozen 2.0s as a gift for a friend who was planning to cloth diaper early in the Summer of 2010.  They were very trim, but I realized that the leg openings would gap on a tiny newborn even though the rise would shrink down enough.

The original 2.0 mod: 
And this was how Sunpei applied it to the current Sunbaby 4.0 diaper design (they come in 2 sizes - both a one-size diaper though):

The snaps are set up the way they are on Sunbabies so that the hip snap is a socket with a smooth surface for chubby toddlers and babys where it would need to be unsnapped.  a stud placed there would rub and be sharp against their thighs.  That is why we set it up the way we did with the top row on the belly as sockets and the bottom as studs.  I'm pretty sure Alvababy copied the general hip snap design but didn't switch the rows like that, so all their wing snaps are studs (correct me if I am wrong).


The diaper below was made using my snap-down rise OS fitted template from the last post on the middle length tab setting with the tabs slimmed and angled a bit.

The hip snaps are placed one snap further toward the middle, and I have left the leg elastic fairly loose (it is for an older baby, so she shouldn't need the tight leg openings), but this is similar overall to how Sunbaby diapers are styled.


 The care tag sewn hidden under the upper pocket flap.


I used black PUL from fabric.com, black Alova suedecloth from Joann Fabrics, and snaps from KAMsnaps.com   :)

3 comments:

  1. Great looking diapers!
    Judy @ KAMsnaps.com

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  2. I'm having trouble finding the link for the pattern on my mobile. Will you please link it?

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  3. Could u please email me the pattern to make these sun babies fit my daughter the best and I would like to make one plz. victoriakubicek@gmail.com

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