It's been pretty quite this week so far on the blog, but on Sunday we took a trip to Jo-Anns in Columbia, MO and got some of the Babyville Boutique things that were on sale for 50% off. I got some PUL fabric, some dry weave fabric, snaps, snap clamp, Fold Over Elastic, and a little training pants pattern book. Let's just say I'm not too thrilled with the lack of REAL instructions on this product line. I LOVE to sew with the directions that are the start to finish type of things. Not a SURPRISE! Guess what other crap you needed to buy, but didn't because our pattern book was sealed in the store and couldn't read the items needed. So after staring at this book and wondering WTH am I doing... I hit the internet to see if anyone else did anything on this subject or not. Some have, but most have not. I found some people boycotting this little business as well. Seriously, this crap is just plain OVERPRICED. Please write up great instructions from a newbie point of view as some of us have NEVER made this stuff before. Please make your products AFFORDABLE to those on limited incomes. Some of us searching this out are too broke to buy disposables and not necessarily greenies by any stretch of the imagination. BTW, so far I'm thinking of using a FREE pattern I found on the internet to make a POCKETED training pant that I can add a folded up pre-fold diaper in it when the toddler is headed for bed. The snaps on the sides look easy enough.
The plus side to the Babyville Boutique fabrics:
- Very cute patterns or solid colors
- Handy 3 packs that can make about 6 diapers
The not so plus side to the fabric:
- Price is too much for yard goods. $15.00 a yard is NUTS.
So... with the first project being cute and all, it was too big. It was the back snap training pant. The snaps would work just fine on the sides instead of the back. It was too confusing for the toddler to put them on by himself and put them on backwards. The snaps are still quite stiff and hard to separate for now. So maybe in time they will get a little easier to open as time goes by. I'm thinking 'meh' on the item and looking around for other ideas.
Here's the page I found that I'm looking through links:
CD Sewing 101. I'm putting it on this page as well because you never know when internet gremlins will steal your bookmarks away from you and spit them out into cyberspace hell to be lost forever.
Off for now to find time to unwind for the evening. Feel free to post your favorite crafting websites to go to or even your tales of woe for making something that looked so awesome, but turned out 'meh.'
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