Embroidering pocket diapers

First and most importantly, if you are sending a PUL pocket diaper to me for embroidery, please read this entire post and let me know if you have further questions. By agreeing to send, and have me embroider your pre-made PUL diapers, you acknowledge that you have read this information.

Your PUL diaper (Bum Genius pockets and covers, Bummis covers, Fuzzi Bunz pockets, etc) must be completely clean with NO detergent residue. To ensure there is no residue on your diapers, please do a hot wash followed by one cup of vinegar in the first cold rinse cycle and then a second cold rinse. Removing residue is important to ensure that when I seal the embroidery, I am sealing to a clean surface, otherwise I cannot guarantee the seal will last.

There are many pocket diaper manufacturers and Wahm's, and each produces different sized openings on their products. In some cases it is pretty easy for me to get the embroidery hoop inside the pocket and ready to go onto the machine. In other cases, the opening is too small to accommodate the hoop and I must open up the pocket. This is the case with Bum Genius Pockets, all except large and x-large Fuzzi Bunz, and many others.

To do that, I simply cut the inside pocket material (the fleece or suedecloth) from the pocket opening to about midway down the center. The diaper is then hooped for embroidery and once completed and the embroidery is sealed, I sew the pocket back with my serger. As you can see from the first picture, the seam on the outside is smooth (where baby's bottom would be), and the serged part of the seam is on the inside of the pocket.

This bottom picture shows the inside of a pocket diaper (this one is a Bum Genius). Once the design is embroidered, I use a matching piece of polyurethane laminate (PUL) to seal the back of the embroidery so there will be no leaking issues.

If you have any further questions about seaming or sealing pocket diapers, please don't hesitate to pop me an eMail and I will be happy to answer them.