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Amitola Pacifica with Harmony Straps.

This Ocah WC has been made using a Girasol Amitola  wrap with the Pacifica weft.  This is a standard sized conversion with Clipee waist,  Harmony Straps, Adjustable sleephood, Leg padding and Arms out padding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caribe Fische Ring Sling

This Ring sling has been made using a Didymos Caribe Fische wrap.  It has the SBP style pleats (used with kind permission of Jan Andrea at Sleeping Baby Productions)

 

Nairobi Simple Gathered Ring Sling

This Ring sling has been made for a new sling library that has been set up as a part of the Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside Branch of the NCT.

Amitola Pacifica OFB

This OFB is a Pre-schooler sized carrier made using a Girasol Pacifica Amitola Wrap.  It has been made with an additional layer of wrap fabric in the body and it has Arms out padding added.

 

 

 

Helsinki Ladybird.

This OFB carrier is a Pre-schooler size and it has been made using a Hoppediz Helsink Wrap and Echino Ladybird Fabric.  In Addtion to the Adjustable Sleephood and leg padding which come as standard on the OFB carriers this one also has Arms out Padding and an additional layer of fabric in the middle of the body. 

 

 

 

Symphuo OFB

This really should have been a simple Symphuo conversion but I went ahead and made it much more complicated than it needed to be ! The Mama who ordered this OFB (who has the patience of a saint by the way) asked for her OFB to be made without a sleephood (remember this as we will come back to this in a moment)  or if at all possible it should have a removeable sleephood. 

So we have never really come up with a removeable hood design that works well on a 2 (or 3) layer wrap conversion, velcro and poppers are a not a good idea on these carriers and so then this lead me back to an old Ocah Mei Tai Design that had a tuckable hood.  I emailed the Mama and asked if I should sew a tuckable hood on her OFB and seh happily agreed that I should go ahead.  But what I hadnt really thought through was the fact that the tucakble hood on the Mei Tai was sewn into a carrier that had several layers of thick fabric and so the hood sat nice and flat inside the body of the carrier and it couldnt be felt when the carrier was worn.  But with the softer thinner fabric on a wrap conversion when it was tucked in to the body the sleephood felt lumpy and the sleephood ties didnt sit flat.  And then of course in order that the sleephood didnt fall out of the body of the carrier when the carrier was being fastened on to the waist we were back to the velcro or poppers dilema. 

And so even though this carrier was all but finished I wasnt at all happy with it and decided that there really was only one thing for it, it had to be re-done minus the tuckable hood.  And that is exactly what I did and now I am 100% happy if not humbly appologetic to the Mama who had figured on receiving her OFB with a tuckable sleephood. 

500+ carriers sewn and I still dont always get it right first time but as I told a dear friend earlier today I dont do "it'll do" never have, never will, if something isnt right it just has to be re-done. 

So without further ado the details, this is a Pre-schooler sized OFB with an additional Layer of Wrap fabric in the body of the carrier, sewn without a sleephood (ahem, cough.... as per the Mamas orginal request.) This OFB also has a chest strap made out of matching wrap fabric.