Sammy love the cherry print! I finally got onto the nappy making last night too (it's about time, I think I had all my smalls made by now with Austin!). I am using the very baby pattern for my fitteds too, and when I did my first couple (back when I used it to make super thirsty bamboo night nappies for the boy) I found that I wasn't stretching the elastic enough as I sewed following the instructions' method. With my pockets I measure, cut and pin the elastic first and liked that method for making sure it's even and that the legs were the same size. Last night I tried a combo - I measured half the lengtth I needed to cover, cut, secured and stretched as I sewed. You end up using less than half this way (because of the slight excess at either end since you need something under the foot to get you started, and something to hang onto until the end which you chop off after). I found it gave the perfect amount of stretch. I also like to do a straight stitch along the areas where there are elastic about 15mm in from the overlocked edge, as the very last step before snaps. This helps the elastic sit a little better and the nappy look more "finished". Try not to catch the elastic when doing this though, and stretch as you sew.

Pics in my blog of last night's newborn VB and the Saturday night PUL pocket. I didn't photograph my first pocket (seabreeze colour) because I stuffed up my elastic start and end positions and it came out medium.

Where do you guys get maxilock swirls? Is that cotton or woolly nylon, and which threads do you use it in? I have used white woolly nylong on the bottom loopers. I have massive $15 cones of that though so probably should just use that since I have so much, but I do love a coloured edge.