Pavo Parterre Doe

I got a chance to try the legend that is Pavo Parterre Doe and of course was super excited to give it a go!

First and foremost, this is NOT a wrap for an inexperienced wrapper.  It requires real strand by strand tightening, and a lot of it at that.  It is also extremely dense and very heavy in hand.  All that said, it is full of support!

This wrap has amazing stretch and a lot of recoil, which is part of why strand by strand is so important.  I was also impressed wih the grip of Parterre.  It doesn't feel, in hand, like it would be very grippy compared to something like Fable or Gotham but once it's in place, it holds tight.  There is pretty good glide as well for getting second passes done, but anything with a second pass really requires a bit of patience and time to get everything right.  Parterre ROCKS a ruck in my opinion and is best suited to single layer carries.

The texture of this wrap is very different from most I have tried, even down to the noise of your hand rubbing against the fabric.  I don't consider this wrap to be "soft" nor very "mouldable" but it is very comfortable once you have your wrapee up.  The support is effortless and your little one feels weightless.  It has a fantastic shine/sheen as well.

Overall I think all experienced wrappers should have a chance to try this wrap.  Parterre is very different from most wraps out there and I best describe it as "intense".  I wouldn't consider this to be a squish worthy wrap but it would wrap your bigger toddler with ease!  I briefly considered wrapping my 65 pound 7 year old but decided since it wasn't my wrap maybe I shouldn't ;-)

Didymos Blackberry Indio v2

It's no secret, to those that know me, that I love thin wraps, so naturally when I heard that Didymos was coming out with a wool indio that was going to be pretty thin, I had to jump in and see what it was all about.

Blackberry Indio v2 is, indeed, very thin.  I weighed it in at 190gsm, with the disclosure that calculating gsm is still a bit new to me!  It is thin enough that when held up to the light I can see between the threads. Let it be known that I have put this wrap through a lot.  It is a size 4 and if there is a carry I am capable of doing in a size 4, I have done it with this wrap.  The color is very hard to pin down with regular lighting so I found outdoor shots were as close to true color as I was able to get.  It is much less purple than v1 and isn't really a color I would associate with blackberries, perhaps some just past ripe raspberries though!

To start with, this wrap has a LOT of diagonal stretch.  I didn't think it did on first wrapping but the more I broke it in the more it stretched.  What this means is stellar chestpasses every time with great ease.  Also, even with the amount of stretch that it has, I didn't find it sagging with my 24 pound toddler.

I also found this wrap to have minimal to no wool prickle at all.  I frequently wear on bare shoulders because I overheat very quickly while wearing so if there was going to be prickle, I would have felt it.  I have also briefly used Didymos Greenland Indio and Latte Indio and found those to have more of a prickly feeling, though they are very different, overall, from Blackberry v2.

Blackberry has great glide when doing passes and still holds a slipknot very well, especially being that it is so thin.  It has a very small knot and I found that it was fantastic at carries that tied under bum because there wasn't a big knot in my back.

I have had a couple of small difficulties with this wrap. The first is that since it is so thin *and* an indio, it pulls very easily.  If I am wrapping with this I prefer to keep my engagement ring on the counter until I am done.  The other issue I had is that because it is so thin and it's so easy to stuff it all in your hand for bunched passes etc, it can be easy to swap top rail with bottom rail in a carry like Charlies Cross Carry etc.  It's not really a huge deal and it is easy enough to fix once you figure it out, but a newer wrapper just learning back carries might get a little frustrated by this as they were learning.

I would rate this wrap as absolutely squish-worthy as it is extremely soft and very easy to wrap with.  I find it to to be toddler worthy with my 24 pound guy with zero dig but it *might* lack the support needed as your child edges up closer to 30 pounds, if doing a single layer carry.  If in base size this would rock a wrapjob all the way to the end of your wearing days.

Pavo Sea Star Starling

I got a beautiful Pavo Sea Star Starling size 4 in temp trade.  I was excited to try this Pavo form wrap, even if pink isn’t really my color ;-)

At first touch it felt a lot like Pavo Unicornio, which I have tried in the past, as you can see from my main photo! I do find Sea Star to be softer than Uni, and more floppy but it is possible (as always) that Sea Star is just more broken in than the Unicornio I tried.

I would easily consider this to be a squish worthy wrap and it held up well to my 24 pound 15 month old, even in single layer carries.  I find it to be neither dry nor soap and having some, but very little, texture.

I found Sea Star to have good glide while doing second passes, but in some cases, maybe a little bit too much.  I always like to try carries with a half knot instead of a proper double knot to see how it does, slip-wise, and Sea Star held for a little bit, but then started slipping minimally, not enough, but enough that I wouldn’t be comfortable with a half knot.  It did seem to hold a slipknot well enough, which is what matters more to most people than a half knot.  The only other time I had issues with slip was while trying to tighten the second pass of double hammock.  If I wasn’t careful the bottom rail would slip up over his tush and I would have to reposition.  Not a big deal in the grand scheme (and maybe due in part to wiggly toddler) but worth mentioning ;-)

There is a bit of stretch in Sea Star Starling but not very much, it’s there but you have to look for it.  I found it to be relatively thin.  There wasn’t any real cush to speak of but it never felt diggy in any of the carries I tried (ruck TIF, double hammock TAS, kangaroo, and front wrap cross carry TUB).

In all I would consider this a great squish to toddler wrap if glide is your game and you want a soft wrap to wrap and cuddle with! 

Reality of Dinner

The reality is that dinner is never done quite soon enough for baby creature!

All About Me

I am a New England based wrapper (and all around babywearer) that loves to write and try out different wraps.  My husband and I have three kids and three cats, just to keep things interesting! 

Most wraps that I review are here on temp trade though maybe some day I will get a chance to host testers.  I am a serial churner and have seen a LOT of wraps come through here in the 15 months we have been wrapping.

We get at least one “ups” every day here but typically more than that.  My little guy loves to go up in the afternoon after nap time and whenever we go out and about in the world.

For techincal stuff, my base is a size 5.5, being between bases is just, awesome.  I have used wraps anywhere from a size 2 to a size 7, haven’t ventured in to 8 territory yet!  My wrapee is 15 months old (as of December 2015) and around 24 pounds.

That’s a little bit about me! I hope you will follow along (and maybe be patient since we know 3 kids take a lot of time!) as I find time to review the wraps I am using/have used.