Finally a post...

So much to say! One of my best friends in Cali posts to her blog regularly. I know she has no more time than I do. She has a house similarly sized, 2 children just like me and a cloth diapers business. Her store is more full than mine and her blog is wicked amazing! I love going and reading it and I cant read fast enough. She has posts I have never read... I should post more, there are people who ask me to so that they can apprise themselves of my going ons and yet here I sit acting busy!

--This was my morning job before we started school.

I am putting up some pictures from this mornings work, the kids helped me with this by sorting fabric into piles of tops and waterproof bottoms and then Tad can now pick which pcs are wide enough for pads and which bits have to be piled up for mini wet bags and pad soakers. So I cut out while they sort and hand me pcs. Now we have small piles of mini, regular and super cuts for tops and bottoms and a small pile of soakers. The leftover waterproof pcs will be cut into squares for mini pad bags and the pcs of micro/flannel that are long enough for soaker tops will be used for that instead of being cut into pad soakers. I need an avg of 8 inches wide to make a pad top/bottom because of the wings.

I have recently learned to serge my pads, they were taking so much of my time on the machine. I was using a machine interlock stitch that looked similar to a serge stitch but I can serge 7 in the time it took to sew 1. I dont want to stitch and turn pads as then they have a bulky seam all around the edges which does show through well fitting pants-quite embarrassing! I am serging them, yet I am not great at it! We are going to have a huge pads seconds sale on my website. All prices will be slashed on pads to sell out the ones made on the machine and the prices will stay low while I become more practiced at serging so look out for pkg sales on my site!

In other news, I think I may have found an employee! A local mom from my home school group spent Friday with us learning about what I do. She did some cutting and I learned that I was correct in thinking she pays attention to detail. She learns fast, I think it helps that she already knows how to sew. I am looking forward to working with her again on Friday, I think she will be great for this business. I am including a picture of what we are working on Friday, this table is filled by pad cuts and that was just this morning. This bin is full of scraps that must be cut into pads. Also is a picture of my trash pile, that pile would include all on my table and all in that bin if I didn't make pads and mini bags! The poor earth is already too full of trash, I am glad that I can find a way to use these pcs.

This is about 6 wks of scraps- leftover pcs from diaper and pull up cutting!

My friend in California has also found a good use for her larger scraps, she sends them to me! We are exchanging this wk, she is sending her large piles of usable scraps and I am sending her some windpro that I was able to obtain on sale. Malden Mills had a huge sale on fabric before they stopped selling wholesale, thanks to my mom I was able to buy a pretty large quantity. My friend Amanda also buys in wholesale, but neither of us can afford all we would like so we use a trade system to share the colors! She will be putting out some great diapers and covers in oat colored heavy weight windpro and I will have extra cutting for Angela and some really cute pads for some of you! Thanks Amanda for a great trade...

I have more to post later, made some really cute winter clothes for the kids which they kindly modeled.