Sew Along: A Diaper Stacker
**This tutorial assumes intermediate sewing ability***
This little stacker would make a nice gift, or addition to your nursery. I whipped this up without a pattern, from scraps, in about 2 hours.
Materials:
1 yd 54″ wide fabric
baby sized hanger
9″x12″ cardboard (back of notepad works great!
thread to co-ordinate
Instructions:
1. Lay out your hanger on a doubled piece of fabric and cut around the ’shoulders’, making a seam allowance of approximately 5/8″. Make sure to leave a small ‘neck’ approximately 5/8″ tall.
2. Cut a length of fabric 22″ long by 54″ wide for the body of your stacker.
3. Cut two pieces of fabric approximately 10″x13″ for the bottom of your stacker.
4. Press down the ‘neck’ of the ’shoulder’ piece and hem on a machine.
5. With right sides facing, sew each side of the shoulder piece, from the bottom edge to the neck edge, pivoting at the corners and leaving neck open. Clip corners. Turn.
6. Turn right side out and press.
7. On body piece, turn each each selvege edge 2-1/2″. Hem.
8. Take up body piece and make three box pleats as follows: One pleat measuring 5-1/2″ at CB, and 2 pleats measuring 3-1/4″ where the body will join shoulder seam.
9. With right sides facing, attach body to shoulder piece, matching side seams and CB. Trim bulk as necessary. Turn right side out and press.
10. With WRONG SIDES facing, take up bottom pieces and sew around three sides. Insert cardboard, sew fourth side.
11. Matching CB with the center of one long side of bottom, attach body to bottom using 5/8″ seam and clipping corners as you go. Pink seams, or use serger, keeping close to cardboard. Turn out.
12. Front edges will overlap considerably. This will prevent the diapers from falling out the front!
Of course, you might like to add emboidery, appliques, ribbons, etc. Make it your own! Send me photos of your finished stacker and I’ll post it here.
We keep our stacker on the back of the bathroom door – most convenient!
February 16th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Hi
I love your diaper stacker I have made a similar one and here is mine from my tutorial in arabic lol,we have similar techniques except I love the little neck you left for the hanger
http://widad.jeeran.com/daiperhanger.jpg
October 23rd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
This all makes sense until the last instruction. #11! I can’t see if the pattern is wrong side up or what. I can’t wrap my mind around how the bottom gets done. Really needed some elaboration on #11.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Thank you for posting this pattern, I couldn’t find my old pattern and couldn’t remember the measurements. I didn’t want to spend money for a new pattern for one item. You sharing surely helped me out for completing my grandaughters babies room.
An appreciative Grandma
May 24th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Can you please email me a picture of the finished diaper stacker…I tried to view it on your website and couldn’t for some reason. I appreciate your time very much. Have a great evening!!
June 5th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Your pictures do not come through for me but I think this is exactly what I’ve been looking in vain for. Any chance you could send me a picture? I am expecting my first grandbaby. We had a diaper stacker for our two kids and loved it. I’m on an island and can’t find one. The pattern books don’t have it either. Help! Pretty please, Karen
June 6th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
I THINK IS A VERY INTRESTING WORK AND I´M LOOKING TO MAKE ONE FOR MY FIRST GRANDAUGHTER, WHO IS COMING SOON, BUT I CAN´T SEE ANY PICTURE.
CAN YOU MAIL THE WHOLE WORK AND INSTRUCTIONS TO MY MAIL?
I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND THANKS TO SHARE YOUR WORK.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
hi there, I cannot see the pictures either, but this sounds like just what I’m looking for! Anyway you can e-mail me the pictures too? bekahbell_99@yahoo.com
thanks!!
June 12th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Your instructions seem really easy to follow but I am unable to view the pictures. Is there any way that you could send the pictures to me. I am very visual and this would help a ton! Thanks!!!!!!!!