It's Not Spaghetti

Deepest Blue Roses

emeriminni — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:45:46 +0000

This unique piece of woven wrap fabric was just simply beautiful and wonderful to work with. Originally an Oscha Zen Roses and dyed a gorgeous deep blue by Turquoise Fields, this lovely scrap is now a pleated ring sling with silver rings and off to be worn at a wedding!

It’s so hard to show the colours of this stunning sling so here’s a photo without flash:

And with flash:

Neither does it justice so I can’t wait to see proper action photos of this one!

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Zen Garden

emeriminni — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:06:41 +0000

Beautiful Oscha Zen Roses made into a pleated ring sling with silver rings. Such a gorgeous wrap to feel – I loved making this one!

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Lollipops!

emeriminni — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:28:54 +0000

I’m currently converting a long, bright Amazonas Lollipop wrap into 6 play slings for children to carry their dolls and teddies in. Here are the first two, which I sewed last night, with red and with green sling rings:

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Playing with slings!

emeriminni — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:22:32 +0000

I’m starting to make some slings and things to sell in my new Spaghetti Slings Shop

Today I made a start by sewing 6 lovely play slings for small people to use to carry their toys and dolls. I’ve made them in several lengths to see what suits which ages best, and used 3 different wraps, making 2 slings from each. The wraps pictured here are: Lenny Lamb Sunrise (with aqua and pink rings), Natibaby Blue Danube (with blue and black rings) and a Neobulle Violette (with purple and gold rings).

I’ll be adding many of these to the shop soon and I hope they all get lots of playing with!

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Sunrise Rainbow

emeriminni — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:19:52 +0000

Another historical blog post to show a gathered ring sling that I made many months ago for the South London Sling Library. This is a Lenny Lamb bamboo blend Sunrise Rainbow woven wrap, converted into a gathered ring sling with large aqua rings.

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Rose Velvet Fall

emeriminni — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:06:42 +0000

A beautiful Girasol wrap made into a completely unique gathered ring sling with – at the request of the mama who gave the the wrap to convert – one pink and one purple ring sling to match the weave! What a fab idea that’s worked soooo well!

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Oscha JK Ooki Ceo

emeriminni — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:03:19 +0000

A simply gorgeous, beautiful and yet incredibly wearable wrap that’s light and supportive to use, even with a toddler Re-made (again – I’ve resewn the shoulder of this sling once before) with a gathered shoulder and new Spaghetti Slings label!

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Perfect Pfau

emeriminni — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:57:23 +0000

This is a bit of a historical blog post, but aiming for completeness so here’s a gathered ring sling I made from a Didymos Anthracite Hemp Pfau in March this year. It was a firm favourite over the spring and summer – supportive, goes with almost everything, Dad friendly and doesn’t show up any grubby marks!

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At the other end of the rainbow :)

emeriminni — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:57:33 +0000

Last week I designed and sewed a beautiful Girasol Northern Lights rainbow wrap into a pleated ring sling. Tonight I sewed the other half of that wrap into a simple yet stunning gathered ring sling with purple sling rings. I think the wrap just speaks for itself – gorgeous!

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Double Fanned Rainbow!

emeriminni — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:33:18 +0000

I was asked to make a ring sling out of a Girasol Northern Lights, but the sling needed to look and fit similarly to SBP pleats (overlapping pleats that I used in my first Natural Mama Girasol Ring Slings as they allow you to show off each colour stripe beautifully). But I no longer have permission to make SBP pleated ring slings to sell and so I needed to come up with another plan….

After some discussion with other sling makers, and several false starts at pleating I came up with a design that I liked the look of and that I felt pleated nicely. It starts with two narrow box pleats in the centre (the two purple stripes) and fans out on either side, with each pleat showing off one of the colours of the night rainbow stripes. It’s a symmetrical design and so will sit nicely worn on either shoulder, and (even better and more satisfying), on the underside it’s pleated to fit in a very similar way to my normal pleated style.

I’m very pleased, and I hope it’s new owner will be too! xxx

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