Diaper Garden Gallery: May Flowers and Trees

For a couple of years, I held Fuzbaby to specific colorways of rich gem tones. I broke out of that pattern with these ice cream colors: peachy orange and pistachio green.

To make the flowers, we cut one large foam circle, dip in dye, print, then wash. Then we used our five-circle foam block to print the darker color. Over dyes are quite light.

Let's face it. The green pattern is a flower. I couldn't just SAY that though because many of my customers would not dream of putting flowers on a boy, even abstract circle flowers. The tree is the cover. But, if it helps people to get past a little reluctance, I can call a green flower a tree, too.

I like the eye-jiggling effect of brighter colors inside against gentler colors outside and around the edge.

Early May is the time for Hawthorn. I individually cut each leaf in a reasonable resemblance of a hawthorn. I sewed them by machine to give the leaves faint veins.

Eventually, I figured out that there are only so many colors of green to make a cover, and I would have to branch out more.

I was concerned about the issue of stuffed children's toys, so I decided to leave that decision up to parents and make this something extra a kit rather than a finished item. Beans, rice, buckwheat hulls, or wool. We stuffed ours with rice and the kids still use them to practice throwing.