Long Days Short Wraps: A Summer Babywearing Challenge for Short Woven Wraps

Welcome to the Long Days Short Wraps Challenge! In this challenge we celebrate the long summer days with carries that use our short wraps! The carries in this challenge will range from base-4 to base-2 (maybe base-1 if you do not use any sling rings). Sling rings are not required but could prove useful, especially in our last two weeks.

For this challenge we'll have a carry of the day for each weekday in June (2016). This allows us the weekends to catch up, have more time to work on carries that may have stumped us during the week, or try variations of carries that we didn’t get to during the week. Each week we'll focus on a skill or theme, usually for both front and back carries. The challenge will feature carries that generally get progressively more difficult as the weeks go on. You can find a playlist of the featured carries at this link: https://youtu.be/XgigzsssDEY?list=PLKEWebOl-RXq5R8sIXDeXE2raQ-vYhZ0N

First Week: proper tightening and double knots
1: Front Wrap Cross Carry Tied Under Bum by Wrapping Rachel
2: Robin's Hip Carry
- With no ring by Wrapping Rachel
- With one ring by Wrapping Rachel
3: Ruck Tied in Front
- Ruck Tutorial by Wrapping Rachel
- Ruck Troubleshooting by Portage Babywearing (not captioned)
- Erin Knot by Amy Wraps Babies

Week Two: Slipknots
4: Front Traditional Sling Carry (formerly known as Rebozo)*
- Tutorial by Wrapping Rachel
- Slipknot tutorial by Wrapping Rachel
5: Front Reinforced Torso Sling Carry or Semi Front Wrap Cross Carry
- FRTR by Wraplena
- Semi FWCC with a slipknot by Wrapping Rachel
- Semi FWCC with two rings, single-threaded by Mama Bear Babywears
- Semi FWCC with two rings, double-threaded by Crazy Wrap Lady
6: Half Front Wrap Cross Carry by Wrapping Rachel
7: Reinforced Rear (Rebozo*) Rucksack or Pirate Carry by Wraplena
8: Twisted Pirate by Wraplena

Week Three: Shoulder Flips (or getting around them)
9: Kangaroo Carry
- Half pre-tied by Amy Wraps Babies
- Fully pre-tied by Wear All The Babies
- Fully pre-tied by Wraplena
10: Hip Kangaroo by Wrap you in love
11: Double Sling Carry*
- With shoulder flips by Wrapping Rachel
- Without flips by Babywearers of BG
12: Half Jordan's with flips (classic or symmetrical)
- Classic by Wrapping Rachel
- Symmetrical by WearABaby (not captioned)
13: Half Jordan's without flips (cross pass first or second)
- Version 1 (cross pass first) by WearABaby (not captioned)
- Version 2 (cross pass second) by WearABaby (not captioned)
- "Kristi's Wiggleproof" version (cross pass second) by Wrapping Rachel

Week 4: with a ring
14: RFRTS or Semi PWCC
- Reverse Front Reinforced Torso Sling Carry (Reverse Front Reinforced Torso Rebozo*) by Amy Wraps Babies
- Semi Pocket Wrap Cross Carry by Amy Wraps Babies
15: Inside Out Coolest Hip Cross Carry by Wrapping Rachel
16: Lola's or Shepherd: DH Variations 1
- Lola's by Laramie Appenfeller (not captioned)
- Shepherd's by Wraplena
17: Semi or Torso Double Hammock: DH Variations 2
- Semi Double Hammock (or Back Reinforced Torso Sling carry)* by Wraplena
- Torso Double Hammock by Steffani of BWI (not captioned)
18: Short Ruckless Bikini Carry by Wraplena

Week 5: variety
19: Double Hammock Double Rings or Knotless: DH Variations 3
- Double Rings by North Dallas Wearing Mamas
- Knotless by Britt Brown Marsh
20: Double Sling (or Half Jordan's) Shoulder to Shoulder
- Double Sling Shoulder to Shoulder by Annabel Ephant
- Half Jordan's by Valerie Trembacki
21: Towel Carry by Wrapping Rachel
22: Half Taiwanese Carry by Annabel Ephant


*Traditional Sling pass is the new name for the pass previously called Rebozo, as it has been voted on by the babywearing community via wearingwiki.com. Visit the link for more on the names in transition.