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Step 5Installing pocket elastic
Attaching the pocket elastic: I must admit, this is the most difficult part of the diaper making process. It will be hard to put into words, but I will do my best so please bear with me.
Take a 4" piece of elastic and tack it down directly below one of your 1" flaps. You don't need to stretch the elastic, but the fabric will bunch up under it because the elastic is shorter than the flap. This is exactly what you want. Once it is tacked on both ends flush with the 1" flap, do the same thing on the other flap (the other side of the diaper).
Now comes the tricky part. Fold the flap over the elastic and stretch it out straight as you sew it down. Make sure not to sew into the elastic, but keep just outside it to make a nice tube for it. Do this to both flaps.
If you did it right, you should end up with a really stretchy, wrinkly back of the diaper. This will work to keep the insert from coming out on accident.
Take a 4" piece of elastic and tack it down directly below one of your 1" flaps. You don't need to stretch the elastic, but the fabric will bunch up under it because the elastic is shorter than the flap. This is exactly what you want. Once it is tacked on both ends flush with the 1" flap, do the same thing on the other flap (the other side of the diaper).
Now comes the tricky part. Fold the flap over the elastic and stretch it out straight as you sew it down. Make sure not to sew into the elastic, but keep just outside it to make a nice tube for it. Do this to both flaps.
If you did it right, you should end up with a really stretchy, wrinkly back of the diaper. This will work to keep the insert from coming out on accident.
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