All slung up

Sofia, much to my delight, has become a crunchy hippie mommy like me! Minus the plastic baby doll. My homemade doll seems to be a little too abstract for her right now, she liked it very much but she loved the Corolle doll we found in a local toy shop. In any case, the doll is a whole other blog post. This one is about the wrap I made her.

She sees me carry around Viola in a wrap almost all day long, so she kept asking me to turn her silk scarves into a wrap. But the silk was to slippery and the doll constantly fell out of it, so finally I looked around in my stash of fabric and found a cute monkey fabric. Only problem, Sofia hated it; she kept saying she didn't want a wrap anymore when I knew she did. Then one afternoon after I had finished making a changing pad cover from the awesome Robert Kaufman minky fabric, Sofia came up with the scrap piece I had put on the back of a chair and said, "I want the owls". I then replied, "You want a wrap but you don't like the monkeys?" She said yes and then I serged up this sling wrap for her really quick.

I used this tutorial and it took me about 5 minutes using the serger. In fact, Sofia was so excited she waited the 5 minutes for me to make it! She now loves the wrap and wears it for hours at a time, only taking it off to "breastfeed" the doll.