Voting for the Audience Award of Girasol contest!

Deadline in anniversary contest was yesterday ...
We received almost 100 designs ! It will be very hard to choose one of them!!!

The winning design will be chosen by a jury of Girasol company, probably on Monday 14th of October.
Design, which according to them deserves to be called the Jubilee will be woven at the end of 2013!


Now you can vote for the Audience Award!
Award for designer chosen this way will be Jubilee wrap or possibly a different wrap from standard Girasol offer.
CLICK HERE TO VOTE

Exclusive Girasol contest - You Can Vote!

The first part of voting just started!
Please choose your favorite design until 22 of November.


VOTING

RingTai

Name contest: the new Ring Tai!
Vote for the Ring Tai name!Here we introduce to you our newest wrap conversion baby carrier: a Ring Tai! Ring Tai is a combination of a comfortable wrap tai, easy-to-use buckle carrier and the great features of a woven baby wrap. There are no plastic buckles or hard webbings that could feel uncomfortable. The soft wrap-like shoulder straps are fixed to small sling rings and the straps are incredible comfy.
The body panel of the Ring Tai is the same style as we use with our Wompat SSCs and also the cute sleep hood is included. The waist band is a meitai type and slightly padded. The shoulder straps are about 100-120 cm long, 20 cm wide and softly padded on top of the shoulder. The straps are made of double layer baby wrap fabric all the way. You can spread the shoulder strap over your shoulder and back and this makes carrying in front very comfy. When you carry the baby on your back, you can gather the strap on top of your shoulder to make it narrower and use it the rucksack style. The shoulder straps are attached to small aluminium rings on each side of the body panel and you can adjust the straps smoothly.
The Ring Tais are made entirely of baby wrap fabric. Soft layer of fleece is added to the waist band and shoulder straps. The body panel comes with darts so the baby's bom will settle in a deep pouch. There is also soft padding under the baby's legs.
The very first time that I came up with the idea of a Ring Tai was in June 2011. I wanted to make a wrap tai for my self with short wrap like shoulder straps that were adjusted with sling rings. I love the feel of the wide wrap-like straps and wanted something that could be used outdoors without the straps hanging in the ground while putting the carrier on. My original idea was to wear the straps crossed over the chest when back carrying. But unfortunately it was very difficult to get the carrier on like that and I decided to leave the designing work for now.

In September 2011 I received very interesting e-mail from a Finnish active babywearing mama who had been making the ring tais for her self and later on for her friends, too. Laura's Wohveliwraps Ring Tais or "rinksu" had become very popular among the Finnish babywearing community and she had done a great amount of work to make the Wohveliwraps rinksus as good as possible. Her product was something new and inspiring, yet extremely comfortable, ergonomic and distinctive. Laura generously offered her idea for Wearababy because she was about to start in another job soon and she couldn't make enough Ring Tais for everyone in the future. I got exited in the Ring Tais again and started to plan our own new Ring Tai carrier with Laura's help. You can find some more information and pictures of Laura's Wohveliwraps rinksu on her blog (in finnish only):
http://www.wohveliwraps.blogspot.com/
At the moment we have finished our own prototype Ring Tai and it has been tested by our own family and also by Laura and some of her babywearing friends. We still need to make some changes to the model to make it as perfect as possible. We'll try to have the new Ring Tai ready on the market by January 2012.
~Niina

Create new design for MamaNatura!

It's been a year since Mama Natura came to live in London, so to celebrate we're having a competition to design the next Mama Natura Girasol Exclusive!
All of the Girasol competition info is now up on the website :) Borrow your little one's crayons later and have a go!
Once you have finished your design, e-mail it to becky@mamanatura.co.uk
You can enter the competition as many times as you like, and all entries must be received by midday on Wednesday 30th November.

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The deadline for submitting competition entries has now passed, so please head over to the photo album on our Facebook Page to vote for your favourite. Voting closes at midday on Wednesday 7th December, after which we'll pick our favourite from the ten designs with the highest number of votes and open a preorder on this page.
~Beccy

Finalists of Sustain.able Sprouts Contest

Finalists have been posted for the Girasol Design Contest!!
We took the top 3 voted in designs and then the staff picked one from each category to add to final voting :)
That was really difficult!
Sooooo many great designs were submitted!
Thanks to all of you who spent time putting your wonderful ideas down on "paper" - your designs are lovely and it was a lot of fun to read the stories that were included with many.

FINALISTS - Girasol Design Contest
Rainbow Category
#2in the final version, this design would not have wide black rails
this was done for spacing purposes so that all finalist's image size would match
Colors: 41, 18, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 10. 11. 13. 5. 6

#6staff pick, background was edited to match more closely to the swatches
Colors: background 39 stripe 38 left rail 40 right rail 38
7, 6, 5, 8, 13, 12 ,10, 24, 23, 25, 27, 20, 21, 28, 14, 15, 17, 16, 7, 6, 2, 38, 40, 41

#11Colors: 4, 3, 5, 8, 13, 12, 11, 10, 27, 22, 19, 17, 16, 15, 6, 7

#12colors were edited from original design to match more closely to the swatches
Colors: 7, 6, 2, 1, 9, 10, 25, 23
Designer would like to leave the inspiration a mystery and leave it up for interpretation :)

Sustain Category
#1staff pick
Colors: 36, 35, 34, 37, 25, 11, 10, 33, 10, 26, 12, 23, 10

#20Colors: 23, 22, 27, 38, 39, 40

#21Colors: 24, 23, 25, 10, 11, 12, 13

#22design was edited to match the format for finalist voting
Colors: 39, 29, 6

VOTING INFO: Voting will close on Sunday October 23, 2011 and we will release the winners that next day. Please "like" your favorite design or email your vote to sustainablesprouts @ gmail dot com. Remember, we will be weaving the winning designs- so vote in the same way you would buy! ♥ Pre-order will open up the week of October 24th! ♥

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