Via the magical, wonderful world of twitter, I was able to connect with Allison Vaughn of the brand new cloth diapering shop Cloth Couture (located at Hyena Cart). Even though when we use cloth diapers these days I generally reach for our pockets, I have been wanting to pick up some new fitteds for the summer. In the summer, I like to use fitteds either coverless or under wool covers because the natural fibers are so nice and breathable (unlike the polyester covers of most pocket diapers).
Allison offered to send me a diaper to review and I was all too happy to take her up on it! After looking carefully at the diapers offered in her last stocking, I decided we needed a large rather than a medium. It's important to remember when shopping for cloth diapers to look carefully at sizing charts as one company's medium may fit like another company's large.
Look at this little cutie I got to pick out!
That's a little bonus cloth wipe tucked in the package. One of my favorite things about receiving made-by-hand diapers are that the packages generally contain thoughtful notes and sweet little extras. I have to admit this really makes my day and makes me feel so valued as a customer. Inside this package from Cloth Couture there was also a sample of Crunchy Clean Detergent.
Here's the diaper on its own:
You can see from the inside that this particular kind of fitted has a snap-at-the-top soaker. This is my FAVORITE style of fitteds! Some fitteds have sewn-in soakers which does make laundry just a smidge less complicated (no matching up soaker to diaper when they come out of the dryer or off of the diaper line), but I find that sewn-in soaker fitteds take forever to dry. I much prefer a snap-in.
I was super impressed right away by the workmomship of this diaper. The sewing is absolutely impeccable and the fit is spot-on. I love that the edges of Cloth Couture fitteds are turned, not serged. Plenty of people make great fitteds with serged edges, but I love the clean, neat look of turned under edges.
Both of my girls have been heavy wetters, and I think as they move closer to potty learning they tend to hold it in more and let it loose all at once. At this stage, I find a prefold with a doubler is going to soak through very quickly, the Cloth Couture fitted was barely even damp on the outside. PERFECT for going coverless around the house in the summer!
I asked Allison a few questions about her new business and here is what she had to say:
How and when did you start making diapers? Well I started making diapers in January, I think. I started small but it became an addicting passion. I became tied down (in a good way) to my machine.
What is your vision for your shop? I really want to introduce cloth diapering to a new parents as a trendy alternative to disposables. I would like to bat down all the negative rumors about cloth diapering and help contribute to its comeback.
Allison has been extremely helpful and accommodating to work with, and her fitteds are very, very reasonable. As it just so happens, she stocked her shop today and has a gorgeous offering of fitteds, all-in-twos (hurry! only one left!), and fleece soakers, and for you wool junkies out there, she even offers some hand-dyed wool! AND she has two free-for-shipping lotteries going on, including one darling hand-made outfit for an older sibling who has already learned the potty!
Because she is so generous, Allison is offering free shipping to SortaCrunchy readers good from today (May 8th) until May 13th. Use code freeship506 at check-out to get FREE SHIPPING on your Cloth Couture order!
Allison, thank you so much for the chance to review your lovely work. Cloth Couture fitteds definitely work for me!
Now y'all get to shopping! Happy diapering!
