After getting about 7 million requests for this pattern, I finally found what appears to be the last spare diaper in our house so I threw together the very very remedial pattern for you all. This diaper fits on the big Baby Alive (original) but works fine on smaller babies and other brands as well. It was made, however, for the original Baby Alive so we could stop buying the BA Diapers that cost as much as real disposable diapers! Eek!

So here’s the pattern:

Click on it, go to Flickr and make sure you download the original (full) size. It should be 8.5 x 11 so its meant to fit on a standard sheet of printer paper.

1. Print it out and cut along the lines. You can feel free to make them straighter than my hand-rendered version! haha

2. Get some scrap fleece. Fleece works best because its stretchy and no-hem. Fold your fleece in half and then line up the left side of my pattern along the fold line of your fabric. Trace and cut out.

3. You should be able to open up the full diaper now. If you are old-school and prefer that Junior diaper’s Baby Alive in traditionally pinned diapers, you are done! Just get some pins and away you go. Don’t blame me if your kid stabs his eye out (or your’s!). If you have a snap press, add some snaps. But if you have a snap press, I’m guessing you aren’t here visiting this site looking for directions on making no-sew baby doll diapers! So that leaves Velcro or whatever other brand fastener you chose. You don’t want the self-stick variety. It will pull right off. You’ll want to sew this stuff on. Sorry!!!

4. So cut two 1″ long  pieces of the hook side of the Velcro for the tabs and one 3-4″ piece of the loop (soft) side of the Velcro for the front. I noted on the pattern where each piece goes. You’ll want to center your big piece as best you can. Sew em on with a sewing machine or by hand, it doesn’t matter.  You just want them to be on securely enough to stand up to washing in the washing machine and tearing on and off by tiny hands.

That’s it! The whole project should take you about 10 minutes, start to finish. You can mass produce these babies and roll out tons of them very quickly and then, unlike me, you’ll have a stash waiting whenever your Baby Alive “makes a stinky”. Gag.

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