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Friday: Wool Covers and Wool Care
Today is the fifth day of the flats and handwashing challenge at Cloth Diaper Revival.
We use all wool covers full time around here. For this challenge I limited myself to six wool covers from One Love Diaper Co. I usually only use three or four a day, but I’m paranoid about having back up.
Ozark Mountain Mama Interlock Bubble Shorties
I actually found Ozark Mountain Mama looking for baby shoes, and boy does she make some cute ones. She also had interlock on sale, and I’m a try it all kind of person when it comes to wool, so I helped myself to two pairs of bubble shorties.
Wild Coconut Wear Interlock Wool
I don’t actually remember how I got turned on to Wild Coconut Wear, but it was our first interlock wool, and is still a major staple of our wool stash today.
We became majority wool wearers around six months, so I can’t yet speak about wool and newborns (though stick around and there’ll more on that in the future). I was influenced by the Waldorf idea that baby should be clothed in wool to help regulate their temperature so they can put that energy to use growing instead of staying warm, and also because I wanted to cloth diaper using only natural fibers.
Hemmed Medium Longies
Sloomb’s Scouts
Sloomb recently introduced Scouts, a new design for wool pants, to their lineup. Scouts are knit with the thicker yarn of Sloomb’s Longies, but with a design more similar to basewoolies. Scouts have a double layer in the wet zone, a drawstring with extra elastic in the back, and are cuffed. Their knit isn’t as tight as the knit of Longies, and so they feel stretchier.
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Sloomb’s Longies
Longies were Sloomb’s first woolie offerings and they are still a great option today. These hemmed pants are looser than most other wool options with a thicker gauge wool yarn and a very tight knit. These pants don’t seem to be as popular as their cuffed cousins, but I think they are the jeans of the machine knit world.
Sloomb Basewoolies and Baseshorties
When people think about modern machine knits, Sloomb’s Basewoolies are often the first thing that comes to mind. They’ve become the standard, even though it seems like Sloomb is branching away from them. Continue reading
Yooki Classic Leggings and Shorts
Yooki Classic Leggings are knit with the thickest gauge wool of the machine knit leggings, and with a slightly looser weave. They come in solid and melange colorways. Continue reading
Rox + Rumble Double Layer Slim Pant and Capri Woolsters
I have a bunch of Rox + Rumble Double Layer Slim Pant and Capri Woolsters in my collection, they wear well, are easy to lanolize, and are so cute. Both the pants and the capris come in a variety of colorways, and there will be new colorways in their Winter 2016 line that is coming soon. The pants and capris are very similar, with the capris having a shorter leg and smaller cuff.
Wool for Cloth Diapering: Modern Machine Knits Index
My wool stash is probably 75% machine knits. I have pants, shorts, capris, and covers, and today I am going to go into great detail about the major machine knit companies and their various products. I will be adding reviews here as they go live on the site, and my goal is to review every piece of wool meant for cloth diapering. That means there will soon be posts like this for Traditional Machine Knits (think Engel and Disana) and Interlock, and eventually Upcycled and Hand Knits, too. That may be a little pie in the sky, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to make a good effort!
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