Crafty update and how NOT to dry your cloth diapers

Happy Friday!

I thought I would start off my attempt at posting more regularly by sharing some photos of the projects I finished before it got to hot to crochet during the day.


This is one I made for some of BF's friends who adopted their niece.

A friend of mine asked if it was supposed to look like bacon. No, but I think it's awesome that I found a way to unconsciously work bacon into a crochet project!


This one was also made for the same people.

I know the photo is a little dark, but I think you get the general idea. I was trying to use up scrap yarn when I made these two baby afghans.


This one is referred to as Project Llama and I ran out of yarn. It will be a while before I can buy more yarn because llama yarn isn't cheap! So, for now, it's in a plastic zippered bag (to protect it from bugs) in the closet.

 

 





I also decided my Tarot Deck needed a better place to hang out so I whipped up this little home for it.

 

 





I didn't have money this year to get BF anything for Father's Day, so I made him a gift instead!

As you can see, I've been busy with my projects.  :)



I've really been working on not letting diapers pile up because it sucks to spend a couple of hours washing diapers once a week. My goal is to wash a load of diapers every morning. Typically, this would include any diapers Little A wore the day before and maybe a diaper from her morning change. So far, I've been doing pretty well. I have diapers hanging outside most mornings to get the full effects of the sun now that Minnesota has decided to embrace Summer. I'm rather proud of myself.  :D  Five to seven diapers is MUCH less daunting than fifteen to twenty. I'm also really trying to rinse her poop diapers right away so I don't have a pile of diapers with dried poop. I've discovered that rinsing the diapers right after I change her is SO MUCH easier than if I wait.


Here are a couple of photos of how my clothesline is set up on my apartment balcony. I have five lines of solar powered stain fighting and drying.

 



 

Oh, on a side note, if you wash your pocket diapers at a Laundromat (like we had to when the power went out for two days and I didn't want to wash a shitload of diapers by hand with a camping lantern), don't do what I did. Don't dry your pockets and microfiber inserts on high in an INDUSTRIAL dryer or this happens. This was on a 30 minute setting. My poor diapers.  :(  The PUL liner melted and the inserts are a little crunchy.

 

 

 

Okay, at the risk of further photo bombing my post, I'll end here and update more next week. Have a great weekend everyone!