This is a quick dry all in one tutorial using the Very Basic All in One Pattern.
Step One: You’re going to follow the directions pretty closely in the instruction sheets. The only difference is you won’t sew the soaker pad to the two absorbent body layers. Fold your soaker pad as directed - then serge or zig zag all around the edges to secure. We like to round the corners. Tip: You can add your caps and sockets through 6 of the 8 layers before serging or zig zagging to ‘hide’ the snap caps from baby’s skin.
My Grandma hides the snaps so she puts them kind of low on the body of the soaker pad so she can get the serger around it. You can put them up higher if you wish.
Step Two: Once you have your AIO completed sans the regular internal soaker pad, you can put your cap/studs on for the soaker pad. Again, grandma has them a bit low to line up with the soaker pad. The caps go on the outside and the studs go on the inside. If you don’t want to put your snaps as low as she has them - you can simply line them up under the elastic in the back waist. They should be 3 - 3.5" apart and about a finger space below the back waist elastic. The placement of the snaps isn’t vital - just make sure they line up with the snap in soaker pad correctly and make sure the soaker pad isn’t snapped in too low - you don’t want it sticking out of the front of the AIO.
All done! Wasn’t that easy? You can get creative & top your soaker pad with microfleece or experiment with other fabrics.
Tip: If you have the Very Baby Diaper pattern, you can use the contoured soaker pad template to create a contoured quick dry soaker pad like the official licensees.
(Image from www.tallulahbaby.com used with permission.)
gilpin says:
I am going to make my new baby some diapers and have decided on these. I was wondering do you still use two inner layers on the cover and what two types of fabric would you use? I was thinking one layer of micro fleece and one absorbant layer but am totally new to this and really am just making a guess at this point. Thank you so much for your help.
Sarah
September 5th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Lori Reda says:
I make these for my customers in all different fabrics. My most popular is: outer layer of PUL, hidden layer of hemp french terry or sherpa, then the inner layer is microfleece or suedecloth. I then do a contoured snap in soaker of 4 layers of the hemp FT or sherpa. I have some who have very heavy wetters and for them I make a 2 layer trifold soaker. This gives them 6 layers in the soaker as opposed to the 4 in the contoured soaker. The super booster than just sits either underneath the soaker or in between the layers.
HTH. You may just need to play around to see what works best for you and your baby
September 5th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
dcsharpe says:
I just got my patterns today and am ready to get started right away!!!! My problem is that I don’t have a snap machine. How can I make these quick dry without snaps. Where would I sew the soaker down (one end only I’m guessing)? Or should I use Aplix?
September 5th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Very Mom says:
You can just lay the quick dry soaker in it shouldn’t shift if the diaper fits the baby well. You could sew a dot of aplix on, but I don’t think it’d be necessary.
September 5th, 2007 at 5:27 pm