For a while, on the boards that I frequent regarding cloth diapers, I have been seeing much ado about the RRP or Rita’s Rump Pocket Fitted Pattern. I’m not a fan of fitteds
, as I had drafted and tried a few with my youngest cloth bootie and really favored prefolds. But my little Lukie butt has got some supreme chunky thighs and until he works that chunk-a-munk off by crawling and walking, I find myself needing an in between sized diaper. AAACK!
I have 40 premium prefolds and 28 infant sized ones that I embellished with fleece tabs to lengthen their usage. He’s still too little for the premiums and because of those chunker thighs, the infants are becoming unusable. Sure I have plenty of pockets that fit both my little butts, but I only use them for overnight or outings.. the PUL makes both of them red if I push that. And I simply refuse to buy an entire stash of medium sized prefolds! So as much as I didn’t want to I decided to give that popular diaper pattern a try.
My main gripe with fitteds has always been the same. Much like AIO’s, fitteds do not clean well and take a thousand hours in the dryer – or about 4 days when hung inside – because of all the sewn in layers. The great thing about the Rita’s Rump idea is that it’s just a simple flannel pocket dipe, no sewn in layers, no velcro, no snaps. Seeing as I have already drafted a one-size-fits-most pocket dipe I considered just using that, buuuut in all honesty my interest was beyond piqued about the RRP.. so I printed it out and got to work.
I had more than half of a queen size flannel topsheet leftover from another project, some orange and yellow flannel leftover from a candy corn costume and about half a yard each of some truck and camo flannel. All of it was already washed and ready so
I got to tracing and cutting and sewing! I ended up with 2 trucks, 3 camos and 4 out of that sheet! I squared the tabs on the trucks because I didn’t have the width I needed, but it poses no problem at all!
Luckily I have a small mountain of microfiber for stuffing and I gotta say, I am pleased! The fit is good on my chunky little guy and my red headed terror! Plus they are great for just hanging out without a cover too! To anyone looking to try it, I’d say go for it, they actually live up to their hype!
, as I had drafted and tried a few with my youngest cloth bootie and really favored prefolds. But my little Lukie butt has got some supreme chunky thighs and until he works that chunk-a-munk off by crawling and walking, I find myself needing an in between sized diaper. AAACK!I have 40 premium prefolds and 28 infant sized ones that I embellished with fleece tabs to lengthen their usage. He’s still too little for the premiums and because of those chunker thighs, the infants are becoming unusable. Sure I have plenty of pockets that fit both my little butts, but I only use them for overnight or outings.. the PUL makes both of them red if I push that. And I simply refuse to buy an entire stash of medium sized prefolds! So as much as I didn’t want to I decided to give that popular diaper pattern a try.
My main gripe with fitteds has always been the same. Much like AIO’s, fitteds do not clean well and take a thousand hours in the dryer – or about 4 days when hung inside – because of all the sewn in layers. The great thing about the Rita’s Rump idea is that it’s just a simple flannel pocket dipe, no sewn in layers, no velcro, no snaps. Seeing as I have already drafted a one-size-fits-most pocket dipe I considered just using that, buuuut in all honesty my interest was beyond piqued about the RRP.. so I printed it out and got to work.
I had more than half of a queen size flannel topsheet leftover from another project, some orange and yellow flannel leftover from a candy corn costume and about half a yard each of some truck and camo flannel. All of it was already washed and ready so
I got to tracing and cutting and sewing! I ended up with 2 trucks, 3 camos and 4 out of that sheet! I squared the tabs on the trucks because I didn’t have the width I needed, but it poses no problem at all!Luckily I have a small mountain of microfiber for stuffing and I gotta say, I am pleased! The fit is good on my chunky little guy and my red headed terror! Plus they are great for just hanging out without a cover too! To anyone looking to try it, I’d say go for it, they actually live up to their hype!
ETA: 01/28/09
I modified
the Rita’s Rump Pocket Fitted Pattern that has been working out so well for us and made another stack of them for Lucas!
the Rita’s Rump Pocket Fitted Pattern that has been working out so well for us and made another stack of them for Lucas! I extended the wings an inch and angled them up about a 1/4 inch because the previous batch’s wings seem to angle down creating a V that was causing wing droop. Now the wings cross his belly perfectly! I’ve got about 10 yards of flannel waiting to be made into a pile more!
Threaded Alchemy 