I’ve added my diaper sewing tutorials on sewing elastic on YouTube. You can visit all of them, or go directly to the one you need.
- Elastic for an All In One or a turned & topstitched fitted diaper
- The “blind method” of adding elastic to a fitted diaper that will be serged
- Adding fold over elastic to a cover Part 1 and Part 2
4 responses so far ↓
1 Kimberly // Oct 12, 2008 at 8:43 am
I haven’t tried sewing my own diapers yet but my husband is on his way home with my borrowed sewing machine…lol. I’m almost afraid to use it …it’s my MIL. Basically I just wanted to say…Welcome to West Virginia! We used to live in Huntington…and Charleston and relocated to Greenbrier County about five years ago. I am a native of West virginia but have lived and visted other places around the U.S. I have to say I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
2 dkmom // Oct 12, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Hi Kimberley,
Thank you for the warm welcome to WV. Our moving truck arrives in the morning!
I hope all of your diaper sewing goes well
3 kelly // Oct 23, 2008 at 9:11 am
I’m about to start my first AIO, and am super excited! So, how do you know how tight to pull the elastic? Well, you probably know because you’ve been doing it a while, but how do I know? My biggest concern is that poo does not escape from this puppy, but I don’t want to cut off the kid’s circulation either.
4 dkmom // Oct 25, 2008 at 7:59 am
If you are sewing DiaperKit diapers, you can find lots of information about sewing elastic on our <a href=”http://diaperkit.com/store/index.php?main_page=page&id=4″>Sewing Help & Tutorials</a> page below the videos. If you are sewing diapers from a different pattern you may need more or less elastic than I have listed there. I would say, in general, that I pull elastic to about 1/2 of it’s stretch. As I say in the videos, you don’t want to pull so tight that you break needles or that the elastic can not recoil when you release it.
Hope that helps!
Amber
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