Oh Carmin -- How I love thee.

Carmin is one of those wraps that I've waited my whole wrapping life for. ;) A 50% linen fish. And MAN! does Carmin deliver!! Awesome support, fabulous width, fun little toddler enticing fishies -- it's just about got it all!! Well..... it's got everything going for it other than the color. Really Didy??? Pink/red fish. Ok. Ok. I get it. Lots of mamas emailed asking for red/white fish and *technically* that is exactly what Didy delivered..... but the mix of white cotton threads and red linen threads leaves a very pink overall look. Which.... I *guess* is cute??? But it's just not me. So, I decided to have a little playdate for Carmin with first some stripper and then a dip in some dye ala this funny little tropical fish. :)

Jet Black LSE

One of the hottest, rockin-est mamas on TBW asked me if I could dye this lovely wrap Jet Black -- Heck ya!!! This gorgeous Lavendar Silk Ellipsen went for a dip in Jet Black dye from Dharma, then in black acid dye just to get the silk threads even darker. The result is a super gorgeous, soft ultimate neutral. :) I can not WAIT to see her action shots!!!

Rock out...

with my.... uh, um.... pfau out. ;)

So, not all my pfau, but I've had the pleasure to play with some pfauen the last couple days. What a gorgeous, fun wrap. :) Loving this 50% linen Garnet Pfau.

stripped pfau above original Garnet Pfau

the original red color is the same as a Red Vine

stack of birds (from top to bottom): stripped and dyed charcoal, stripped, and original

close up of stripped/charcoal pfau and stripped pfau

Stack from further away. You can see the stripped and dyed pfau kept some of the bronze color in the linen threads despite a long soak in charcoal. Adds cool dimension and funk. :)

Also interesting to note: Didy used red (presumably polyester) threads to sew the rails and hems. It did not strip.

Boy and girl pfauen. :) Totally reminds me of actual female and male peacocks. Love these wraps together!!!

Check out those linen threads! They keep awesome contrast when dyed. Still a tri-colored wrap. :) And as usual, the linen adds a bit of shine and shimmer from a distance. Love!

Up close and at an angle. Trying to capture how the wrap changes at different angles.

Pretty stack. :) Stripped and dyed blue/green, Stripped and dyed charcoal, Original

Another stack shot. :)

Turquoise/Chartreuse Moss

A lovely, lovely mama sent me her Moss for a little makeover. I actually ended up not mixing up my own colors for this one and did straight turquoise on one side, with straight chartreuse on the other. I love the summery feel of this!! Enjoy mama! :)

My Sunset Trifecta

Didy's Sunset is one of my forever wraps. It's the wrap I picked up at the Didy store in Germany in September 2010. It's the first of Didy's 55% linen diamond weave wraps and it's absolutely amazing. The support is unreal and it breaks in to be silky and floppy. My original size 5 will remain au natural permanently, but ooooh.... it strips and dyes so, so beautifully. Through a trade with a friend, I got a Sunset 4 and chopped it to a size 3 and stripped it. It's my perfect, can take out and about with me because the tails won't drag on the ground ruck wrap. It's gorgeous and pure and makes a pretty sweet scarf when my increasingly independant 2yo wrappee chooses to explore. :) Then, I realized, my stash was 55% diamond weave size 4-less and well -- Sunset was a perfect fit to that. This size 4 recently arrived and hit the charcoal dye bath. The orange threads are still visible -- but now they are more of a rust brown -- they shimmer and shine and make a simple grey wrap interesting. :)

So, I present to you my Sunset Trifecta!!!!

Azur for a super sweet mama

This mama approached me months ago about dyeing something for her. I had to decline, as politely as possible, because I just wasn't ready to go there. However, she just sent me the sweetest message ever, asking for a dye job -- and giving me total freedom to dye to my whims. Wow! What a dream! I asked her for some color preferences to give me a bit of direction. She listed colors such as charcoal (well, that's obviously right up my alley lol), violet, dusty rose and a few others. Then I saw a pic of her sweet little all wrapped up with a sweet hat on... And that was my inspiration. Here is the pic (cropped for privacy):

And here is that mama and babe's new Azur. I hope they love it. :)

Tokyo Blue

A lovely friend recently asked me if I could chop, hem and dye her old Tokyo Hopp. Absolutely! :)

I made sure to get this lovely back home as quickly as possible since this mama's expecting her newest little in less than four weeks. :)

She requested a light blue -- possibly something along the lines of Dharma's Wedgewood. While in the wedgewood bath, Tokyo proved it was up for a battle. The taupe threads are stubborn and like to turn blues green. So, it started out an olive grey color....


But after I added some more blue and some of my German stubborn side, I was able to turn ol' Tokyo blue...

here in comparison to a blue that's well known to wrap lovers

Here it is (in front) in comparison to my brighter blue Tokyo (wrap geeks -- note the weave difference of these two Tokyos)

Stack of natty's

Stripped Sunset

Zara White

Zara Natur

Pre-EC Pamir

EC Pamir

Grad'd Zara White

Stripped and dyed Azur

Rose Moss

More 55's

Moss and Azur went for a dip

Moss on top, Azur on bottom

Aubbie-ing Jade Plum

I've had and loved Zara Aubergine -- more than once ;) -- and then bought a Jade Plum who won me over with wrapping qualities, but the light color in Plum was just a little too pink for my taste, so I decided a dip in some blue would bring Plum a little closer to being Aubbie-ish.

before

after

Attempting to strip burg pfau

After a long soak in some stripper, it looked like burg pfau transformed to black/white pfau.... only to find it rinsed back to burg.... :-/

stripped pfau on top

stripped pfau on the left

Petrol and Burgundy Pfau