I’m sorry if this is slightly OT, but why use cloth diapers in the first place? They’re yucky hard to clean. I guess maybe environmental concerns – but if you seriously believe our landfills are filling up and we’re about to run out of space OH MY GOSH then you should go check out Penn & Teller’s Bullsh*t episode on the topic. 
Warmly,
Wendy
Oh, this could soooo hyjack this thread! There are lots of reasons. Here’s my favorite place to explain…http://www.thediaperhyena.com/diaper_drama.htm - there’s a few pages there, so check them all out.
And BTW, why is a poopy cloth diaper more yucky than a poopy disposible diaper? You are wiping poop off your DC just the same…
Don’t knock it 'til you try it! :happydance:
Thanks for the warning! I’m always so sad when things pill badly. At least I’ll be prepared!
Oh my…If the people on this site were different people this could turn into a highly heated debate…lol (i know i have been part of it on another site lol!) There are lots of reasons to do it including that it is often times more cost effective. the chemicals in disposables certainly can’t be good for babies. Sure “we” (i say that knowing that many of us, including me, were cloth diaper generation children too) survived it but who knows if there was harm done that hasn’t been pinpointed yet…why add to it for “convenience” if you are able to cloth diaper? The landfills MAY not be filling up but adding more…ahem…crap to the environment is not good and I would like to do what I can to minimize the effects of that…crap. I agree that poopy cloth isn’t that much different than poopy plastic and actually i think it is better because you don’t end up with the inevitable garbage can full of stinkiness waiting for Dad to come home and take care of it (yes i know terribly sexist but it amused me to say it so there! :teehee:)
None of that is a judgement of people who do chose to disposable diaper. i wasn’t a convert for a long time. a friend of mine had to have a supply of disposables for when i babysat for her because there was no way i was dealing with it…buuuuuuuut i am converted so…there it is…lol
and since i have converted the new mommy friend i feel the need to support her! 
Yay for cloth diapers! They’re so easy to use now, no more big, scary pins to deal with. I think they’re great (when I babysit, no kids here yet). The diapers last forever, too, can be used for multiple kids! And they clean up easily, so they’re not gross or anything.
I was just thinking, wouldn’t it be cool to make a soaker that looks like those cute ruffle-pants that little girls wear to dress up? With all the ruffles on the butt? Or am I just being totally inpractical somehow? They’d be so cute!! :teehee:
Those would be adorable, Amy!
I used cloth with rubber pants for my girls. This was a long time ago and disposables were in their infancy and were awful IMO. I wasn’t really into environmental stuff at the time of my life so had they been good I might have used them. Now I would used cloth, but keep disposables for certain times.
BTW…I’d never heard of soakers till I started knitting. Pretty cool!
My mum used cloth diapers, but then again, she’s a tree huggin’ hippie. . . 
I’d probably use them, too, honestly, if for no other reason than that I’d get to make a bunch of cutie-patootie soakers to go with them!
Yep, they make those. And they’re just as cute as you think!
My friend actually started selling her diapers on Ebay as her third child started outgrowing them. She actually made pretty good money on them too. Even the ones that had juice stains on them brought decent money (i was horrified when she just said “the stained ones” until she clarified :teehee:)
I would think all you have to do to get the ruffle butt ones would be to pick up stitches and then do the front,back,front increase in each stitch and then bind off.
cute but feels like it would be tedious to me! :shock: