GD: Ecru Pfau Atacama

Another EP and another pleasure with dyeing it!
This one was sent to me by my friend Marta, who is expecting her second baby this summer.
I offered to dye a wrap for her some time ago as a "baby shower" gift and recently she`s found a perfect wrap for it, a lovely linen Ecru.
As she left the colour choice with me, I thought about a certain place on Earth that would appeal both to her husband and her, as they`re both biologists, very fond of various reptiles:)
So that`s how the Ecru got a name: Atacama, a desert with striking temperature differences and unbelievable life forms.
I know it`ll receive a lot of love!

GD: Fuchsia Fog Azur

Another Azur arrived for transformation with the request of strong hot pink and dark grey. While it`s relatively easy to achieve the former, there are often considerable problems with the latter. However with a little help of Jet Black dye added to Charcoal Grey it was quite possible this time-I think the grey is in fact dark here, and I hope the mama who the wrap is on the way to will be pleased...

GD: Iceberg Hemp Indio

Lovely Celia sent me her newly purchased silky soft old hemp Indio to be dyed some not very aggressive blue colours. She agreed to leave one rail natty so I could go from there with some Wedgewood Blue (which I love and regret not being asked to use more often!) to finish off at the other rail with more "blue mille" colour.
The effect reminds me of an iceberg floating in the ocean, with white cap turning icy cold blue in the shallow water, then becoming darker the deeper it goes.
Totally fit for summer!:)

GD: Lake Michigan Ecru Pfau

One of the sweetest US mamas asked me some time ago to grad - dye an Ecru Pfau for her, which arrived from Prague:)
She was torn between the colours of sunset above Lake Michigan which is a very special place on Earth for her, and those I used dyeing Royal Ecru Pfau as well as Pamir Jewells.
So - I did the sunset and it looked like this...



...and later on I removed the sunset colours and applied some from the opposite palette:)







Now Larissa has more of a Michigan Lake crispy morning impression rather than sunset, but that`s just as well. In such surroundings I reckon time of the day is not important...
Have a lovely time breaking the feathered beastie in, Larissa!I hope you`ll like it in person.

GD: Zara June Sunset

A little girl was born yesterday, just when I was finishing this gradation for her mother, Claire.
When she sent me the wrap, she asked for "sunset" colours with the intensive purple somewhere; we worked on it so that the purple found its` place on one of the rails.
It reminds me of one of those summer evenings, when the clear skies turn into caleidoscope of bold colours just before the night falls.
I love June and I am wishing Claire and her tiny newborn treasure many snuggly moments in this wrap.

GD: TSN Summertime

"
Summertime and the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high
Oh your daddy’s rich and your ma is good lookin’
So hush little baby, don’t you cry
One of these mornings
You’re goin’ to rise up singing
Then you’ll spread your wings
And you’ll take the sky
But till that morning
There’s a nothin’ can harm you
With daddy and mammy standin’ by "

George Gershwin`s Summertime is by far one of the most beautiful songs ever, and I especially love it performed by one of my favoured artists, Ella Fitzgerald. I equally adore it sung by Janis Joplin. Both absolutely stunning...just close your eyes and listen for a moment...

Ah well. Life must be good if there are still things that can bring us joy, right?:)

This Tussah Silk Nino was sent to me by one Polish mama who won the gradation slot I offered in a certain charity auction. Ewa is currently expecting another squishy and decided it`ll be a girl;) So, being a green colour lover, of course she wanted the wrap dyed green in part, as well as a bit cheerful sunny yellow and candy pink.
I dyed it using both procion mx for cotton and acid for silk dyes. The acid dye was actually turquoise, but it reacted later on with green, yellow and pink of the cotton threads, thus turning into interesting shades of green and purple on the silk threads. All in all, Ewa has ended up with a 6 colour wrap:)
I immediately thought of Summertime when I was dyeing this wrap. There was no other option for a name straight away, even though I tried...

GD: Iris Azur

No, this time it`s "Iris" not after a flower, but a certain Didymos wrap, that was so dear to one UK mama, that she wanted its` colours recreated on a more toddler-worthy one for her beautiful daughter. Whose name is ...also Iris:)
So, an Iris gradation on a linen Azur for little Iris to remember Didymos Iris. Sounds a bit confusing, but it`s quite simple really.

Creating this gradation however wasn`t that easy, as there were changes of plans and hiding emails on the way, but in the end, a proper grad was born and I think it is being already loved in little Iris`s family:)

Here are a few photographs: