Organic and Eco-Friendly Products

The Organic Babybasics Set was designed by Ettitude with your baby’s body in mind. The functional purpose of clothing always needs to be taken into consideration when designing clothes. Babies and toddlers move a lot and therefore require cloths that are comfortable and do not inhibit your child’s high energy play and creative exploration. All this movement also means that cloths need to be able of durable fabric and high quality stitching to ensure that they last the distance.

Hold Me Baby T-Shirt Long Sleeve

The ‘Hold Me Baby T-Shirt Long Sleeve’ is very popular all year round as a pyjama top. Take shirts on and off can be a very difficult and painful process. Ettitude have introduced a stretchy neck design into the ‘Hold Me Baby T-Shirt’ that enables you to easily take your baby’s shirt on and off without any fuss or frustration. The ‘Hold Me Baby T-Shirt also contains raglan sleeves, underarm gusset and comfort flat stitching for the most comfortable fit ever. In addition they also contain indispensible fold over hand mitts to keep your baby’s hands warm during winter.

Protect Me Pants

When designing the ‘Protect Me Pants’ Ettitude took both babies and parents considerations into account to create a design that makes everybody happy.  They contain roomy rounded stitch bottom. This provides better support for bulky nappies on your baby.  Change time can always be a challenge. Ettitude have designed a new stretchy elastic waistband to make change time as easy as possible. The ‘Protect Me Pants’ also contain integrated fold over socks to ensure that your baby’s feet stay nice and toasty warm.

Both the ‘Hold Me Baby T-Shirt Long Sleeve’ and the ‘Protect Me Pants’ are made from 100% organic cotton interlock and come in a range of colours and styles that can be mixed and matched accordingly.

Knitting is a fun and creative hobby while being practical and productive. Hand knitted garments makes great presents that really show that you care.

Today knitters have many choices of yarns to use other than the traditional sheep’s wool. Take Pearl Yarn for example. Peal Yarn is a unique blend of 80%Bamboo fibre and 20% Yak Down with a thread of lame. The blend of these two fibres makes for an incredibly soft wool that is very gentle on the skin. This beautifully smooth yarn creates fabulously elegant hand knits with incredible stitch definition. Yak fibres are sourced from the exotic Himalayan regions, bringing you the same warmth that protects the yaks at sub-zero temperatures.

It is remarkably soft to touch and is available in a variety of colours to suit your knitting needs.

Pearl Yarn is machine washable (in garment bag) in cold/lukewarm water for easy care of garments (alternatively garments can also be dry cleaned).

Pearl Yarn knits up to four stitches per inch and the recommended needle size for this yarn is US9(5.5mm). It is spun in a 2 ply, lace weight yarn.

Pearl Yarn can be purchased from Ettitude (a clothing company that specializes in organic and environmentally friendly options). For more information please click here.

A range of technologies have recently developed that utilize bamboo as the main fiber in fabric and fashion accessories.

Bamboo yarn can be used in its own pure form or alternatively it can be blended with cotton depending on what final texture is desired. In recent times bamboo has also been blended with such fibers as spandex and hemp.

History

Bamboo was originally used by the Chinese to weave shoes and hats. Bamboo hats were particularly popular in rural areas to protect farmers from the sun. In western areas of China bamboo was adapted to use as structural components in corsets.

Benefits

There are a number of environmental and health benefits to choosing bamboo. Some of these include:

1. Echo-friendly: Bamboo absorbs 35% more carbon dioxide than other trees. Research shows that if more bamboo was grown as a substitute for other trees it would have a significant effect on the current global warming issues.
2. Naturally Organic-When Bamboo is grown there is no need for pesticides or fertilizers. This makes it 100% natural and organic.
3. Hypoallergenic –Bamboo is 100% organic and natural and therefore does not contain in of the trace elements that cause irritation to sensitive skin.
4. Absorbent and breathable-Fabric woven from bamboo is porous in nature and has proved to be much more absorbent and breathable than other fabrics. This makes it ideal from towels and sheets.

Where can I purchase items bamboo alternatives?

Ettitude is a clothing manufacturing company that produces a range of clothing (for both adults and children), towels, sheets etc that are made from eco-friendly sustainable bamboo fiber and premium cotton. Silky soft and beautiful to touch, with all the wonderful attributes of bamboo and cotton, your precious little poppet will love wearing this comfy fabric against their delicate and sensitive skin!