This is my boy in a coloured flat. I bought a 8 pack Bright Bots terry towelling cloth nappies from Coles for $10 on special when I was pregnant with my baby. I thought to myself I will just have a few nice coloured ones for emergencies - they are practical and useful. I bought about 2 dozen white ones when I had my first child in 2000. She was in cloth for 3 weeks. It was a little too much - dealing with a newborn, my first baby and I was dealing with a postnatal illness. Soaking, washing and folding - aahhhh!

Modern cloth is different. I discovered modern cloth last month. I am an avid knitter and was on a forum talking about knitting when I was shown a pic of a coloured soaker. WoW!!! I wanted to knit one...so I did. I didn't know it was meant to be used on a cloth nappy bum. I knitted it in cotton as a nappy cover for Summer. I soon realised soakers are meant to be knitted in wool. I hadn't used wool in a while due to my 3 year old boy's eczema. I bought a few balls of pure new wool at the op shop and made a real soaker from The Alice pattern (as seen above). I have since knitted more, and have more than enough. He also has longies and shorties.

So he was in flats with one pin! and we had four covers part time- using disposables when he ran out.

How is modern cloth different? No soaking, no folding, no pins. So cloth just goes in a bucket til wash day. It is fitted to baby so much easier.