Sunday, November 16, 2014

DIY easy cloth diaper wipes

We LOVE using cloth diapers. It makes life a lot easier for us. Not to mention, like I've said before in my wipe solution and diaper cream posts, baby girl has seriosly sensitive skin and store bought diapers and wipes needed to go.

I decided to make these extremely inexpensive and easy wipes after my husband complained about me throwing store bought wipes into the washer with the diapers--oops! 

These will save us an amazing amount of money. Apparently I use too many wipes per diaper change (according to the husby), so this was a necessity. I usually only use one wipe per chance where I used to use 3-4 disposable wipes. It also has the added bonus of being able to dry my sweet ones tush after its clean-- also a bonus for the anti- diaper rash movement. 

I used old baby blankets (and I mean OLD... They were mine as a child), but you could just get a yard of cotton flannel or cotton jersey (more or less depending on how many you want to make!)

Cut fabric in 6" squares.

Put 2 squares together. Make sure you have WRONG sides together.

Zig zag stich all the way around the square. If you have a serger, serge it, but a zig zag will do the trick.
If you want to make it a mock serge stitch, make sure your needle goes just to the right of the fabric so one stitch is on the fabric and the other is off. I didn't do this.. I just stitched 1/8- 1/4 inch in from the edge... Mostly because it is a lot easier and I was trying to do this fast! 
Fold them in half



You can put it in an old disposable wipe tub to store
That's it! Use with some DIY wipe spray!






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