I knit woolly pants for Lillian!

[kathrynt]

So we're using cloth diapers for Lillian, and one of the options you have with cloth diapers is to use straight cotton (or bamboo, or hemp) diapers with a wool cover. If you treat the wool with lanolin, it's fairly waterproof -- plus, the lanolin neutralizes the ammonia in the pee, because long chain fatty acid (lanolin) + a base (ammonia) equals

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[the1pony]

Rainbow Hiney! :D

[tamidon]

I loved wool diaper covers,but the ones you made rock

[mangojellytoast]

peeing on wool = soap?

[kathrynt]

Peeing on LANOLIN == soap.

[mangojellytoast]

right right.

[sarakate]

Yay! Those look awesome. We didn't use wool on Amy until fairly late in the game, because she had some lanolin sensitivity issues as a tiny infant and it took me a while to be willing to experiment with it, but we really liked wool covers for the short time we used them.

[solarbird]

i have no trouble believing that wool can be cooler than plastic.

the lanolin solution is amusing. ^_^

and the pants look fine. when you lengthen them it needs to be in yet another colour and the same length. that would be stylin'.

[sarakate]

I used to explain the wool-is-cooler thing like this: Suppose that in the summer you had no choice but to wear thick socks -- bare feet are not an option. Which do you think would feel better, a pair of cotton socks with a pair of wool socks over them, or wrapping your feet in several layers of paper towels and then covering the whole thing with Saran wrap?

The lightbulb-going-on looks were always entertaining. :)