Indoor Line Drying and Stains

Fridays are Cloth diaper Info days.  Yay!  But what does it mean ?  Each Friday a member of the Etsy Cloth Diapers team will share tips and infos about cloth diapering.

And today we start with : Indoor line drying.

Why ?  Because not everybody likes/want/can machine dry their diapers, for many reasons.  Usually for them, line drying or rack drying is the obvious choice.

 That's is where I, Marie-Aude from Colibi Créations, have a problem.  I live in Canada, where half the year the weather is not exactly appropriate for outdoor line drying.  It gets even worse when the said person works full time and only do laundry when the sun has set...  And in winter, it means 5 PM.


When I was in my first maternity leave in 2007  ( my son will be 4yo in a few days!), I was scared to use the dryer for my son's diapers, and I had a little drying rack.  It went well, until stains began to bother me. 

Then I had the IDEA:  window drying !  I would use clothespins to hang stained diapers to my curtains, in my most exposed to the sun windows.

Clothespin, diaper, curtain and a sun exposed window, that's all you need!

I must admit if the said window is facing the street, it can look weird a little bit...  And if one day you don't find a diaper you need, look  behind your curtains.  I had the bad habit to forget I hat put diapers to dry and de-stain.

Does it work ?  Yes it does, but it can take more time to dry and get the stains off in snowy January than sunny July.

If satin are not an issue, but you like to reduce machine drying time, or you still have a few diapers not entirely dry, here is an other money wise option:

Clothes hangers with clips!  !

Kids cloth hangers!  We always have too many of them at home!  Very practical.  Each hanger can hold 2 items, one per clip.  I usually hang them on hooks or wherever  I can in my smallish laundry room.

Not only for diapers, but also for trainers, cloth pads ( there is one in the far right of the picture)

That way I must admit it is less visible for the neighbours, and they are still easy to see for me :)



That's all for today:)

P.S. : Sorry for the bad lighting.  I do prepare my blog articles at night, and the light in the laundry room would NOT cooperate today...

P.S. 2 : See you tomorrow!  I'll share with you one of my favorite recipe.  Something yummy, a dessert.

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Prefolds Trainers are versatile

One of the things I like about cloth diapering is the many, many options available. There are so many cloth diaper methods out there, that if you try one system, and don't like it, you can easily try another. This allows moms to find a system that works best for their families. Some moms like Pockets...others like Allhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif in Ones or fitteds with covers...I even hear tell that there are some die hard prefold lovers out there! The bottom line is, all cloth diapers, trainers included, are versatile. What other garment gives you this many options?

A few months back, I had neglected the diaper laundry, and needed a diaper for baby K. All that was left in the diaper drawer were his sister's trainers. (You can't see pink diapers under pants, you know!). I put one of Sister S's trainers on Baby K, and it worked wonderfully. So, not only do Little Moose Prefold Trainers work as training pants, but, they can double as a diaper in a pinch. Lay a booster in, and you've just increased your wetness protection.


But wait, it gets better - don't I sound like an infomercial. Several customers have told me they have had successs using Little Moose Prefold Trainers as a swim diaper. Now, for the money minded momma, that can only mean one thing - savings! Spending money on a training pant that doubles as a swim diaper, now that's frugality at it's finest!



If you're past the potty training stages, and have no need for the absorbency of a prefold trainer, be sure to shop for swim diapers or view this Treasury featuring swim diapers made by Etsy Cloth Diapers Team members.