Craft time! This last weekend I tried something new, and am so happy with how it turned out. As most of you know, I'm way into baby wearing, and own a fair amount of wraps and baby carriers. With summer coming I decided I wanted a 100% linen wrap because it should be cooler for the hot summer days. 100% linen wraps are pretty expensive, so I decided to try my hand at making and dyeing my own wrap.
I bought 100% linen suiting from JoAnns (thank you mom for the Christmas gift card), and Dylon dyes which are fiber reactive so they aren't harmful to babies (can you tell I did tons of research leading up to actually doing this project?). I originally wanted a grad/ombre dye that went from yellow to turquoise, so I bought those colors. Then I decided that I wanted it to be more of an orange to a darker turquoise. So I bought a red to mix with the yellow (apparently regardless of what is taught in kindergarten, red and yellow do not make orange :)), and dark teal to go with the turquoise (again, didn't turn out how I thought that color combination would). Obviously it didn't come out the colors I was planning, but luckily it came out these fantastic colors. I love it!
The dyeing process took a super long time, but was worth it. The grad came out pretty smooth. Then I hemmed it, and it's ready to use. I used it yesterday with each kid, and it was pretty comfortable. It has a lot of breaking in to do, but I can tell that it will be cool, and is going to be such a great wrap for this summer!
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