Watermellon Sunshine

Ok, I THINK I have gotten my dye fix now.   This girl on her way has three new wraps to be snuggled up in.  Today I made her a short wrap, three meters to be used more like a sling.  We are calling this one "Watermellon Sunshine."  Today it was hot out, perfect sunshine and definatly a day for watermellon too. 

Violet Clouds

So yesterday I got to dye another wrap I made for baby number four.  I decided last minute due to an illness rampaging our house to do it low water immersion since its a very simple "leave it be" type of dying.  I just had to go in every once and a while and add more dye and such.  I mostly sat on the couch with the sick children.  It got to a point in the evening where I couldnt even deal with dying and let it sit all night before rinsing and washing this morning. 

I am very pleased on how it turned out.  Now hopefully tonight I can get started on her last one (still debating on ringsling or shorter wrap )

Tiki's Reef

This Sunday I needed to spend the morning home with a sick seven year old.  We were homebound and as the boys headed out to church we decided to get some sewing done.  We got one wrap done for baby number four.  Plans were to sew the two we planned on doing, but I busted my last sewing needle finishing up the first wrap (figures! LOL)  We made a quick makeshift dying center amongst the dishes in our kitchen and decided to do the yellow/turquoiseish wrap today.  We started with the yellow, in total the yellow took two hours.  I wanted to do a slow gradiation process, I wanted it to be smooth, slow and steady wins the race. My daughter (as well as me) had to practice our paitience.  By afternoon we were able to start on the turquoise.  Alexis was very excited for this as its one of her favorite colours. 

Terror struck me when finishing the turquoise side... the wrap slipped out of my hands and back into the bucket.  A HUGE blotch of turquoise dye hit the yellow side and stuck like glue.  I stood there in horror and just wanted to cry... then I took a big breath and dunked the whole thing into the dye (so glad I didnt dump it all out) and let it sit for a few minutes then took the sucker to the washing machine praying it would turn out okay...

I love how it turned out!  The yellow wasnt effected nearly as badly as I believed it was!  I cant wait to get started on the others I have planned :)

Its almost time again...

While we paitiently await the birth of our fourth child, and my sewing machine and fabric dyes get antsy to start making up wraps again.  My wraps have been folded and refolded, *sigh* I cannot wait to start babywearing little ones again.
Only 15 more weeks.... 

photos by my seven year old Alexis ... photographer in the making

 

Pink

There's been a lot of boys being born... it seems the last few carriers I have been able to create to gift for family and friends have been in hues of camo and blues, and since my last two children who have been worn were boys, lets just say there hasn't been too much pink!

A wonderful friend of mine gave birth to a baby girl and I was so excited to be able to make her a wrap so she could wear her baby if she wanted too.

The material I purchased is a ramie/cotton blend,  very beautiful pink colour which I then dyed over with a pink dye so it would go darker from the middle and then go lighter toward the tails.  Lots of fun.  

When you have a few moments to babywear...

The days are definatly few and far between when I

 get a chance to reallly wear my son.  But this past week I got to babywear him to a few destinations- and they were destinations that we had to do hardcore babywearing because of all the people. So we snapped some pictures. 
I just wanted to share that we are really loving the double hammock torso carry, this totally relieves my shoulders.  Zayden is over thirty pounds, so my shoulders arent too in love with him anymore

Winding down..

Our babywearing days have really gotten less and less as my son gets bigger and more independant, but today we did a nature walk and he loved the view and really enjoyed some wrap time