Diaper Garden Gallery: Kiwi

Cool Spring, April 2004

Fuzbaby Diaper Garden: Kiwi, April 2004 It may be Spring, but in the North where I am, my toes are still COLD. Only the bravest of bulbs are ready to show their green in my garden. In a cool Spring, who wouldn't welcome the unlikely growth of a Kiwi vine across a waking garden? It's a Diaper Garden. If we imagine it, it may grow.

Setting. We borrowed a neighbor's big, wooden cutting board to take photos in our own backyard.

Details
April 2004 Kiwi fitted cloth diaper To create this pattern we oh-so carefully created accordion-folded circles, tied them loosely, bagged the top, then painted dark green down the outer most edges of the folds. We untied the dark green area and made one black dot on each fold. Then overdye in light green. At that point we unbagged the center to fix the whole pattern.
April 2004 Almost-in-One Kiwi contour diaper The inside and doublers were slightly different shades of green to give dimension to the whole.
April 2004 Kiwi wool diaper cover The brown is kiwi-like, but our wool does not hold blue well. We could not get that nice mint green with the colors we had at the time (a problem solved). So, this particular kiwi had a chartreuse trim that was admittedly sharper in color from the fruit.
April 2004 Slice of Kiwi Baby Look at that kiwi attitude! Kiwi baby has an organic cotton head and bottom with a fuzzy wool body, a bit like a fuzzy kiwi fruit. The body is oval, which wasn't the easiest shape to recreate. I topstitched the body seams to help smooth the shape.
April 2004 Slice of Kiwi Baby This is not a whole kiwi, but a half. Look underneath and the kiwi (mildly) resembles a slice of kiwi.