NeezaNeedles Babywearing Handmade- Soft structured carrier, Mei tai, Buckle tai, Onbuhimo

Welcome to NeezaNeedles babywearing Handmade Shop

Specialized in Asian-style Baby Carrier: Mei Tai, Buckle Tai, Onbuhimo, Soft-structured Carrier (SSC); and some readymade ringslings - all are handmade by me due to my deep passion in baby-wearing especially the Asian-style carriers.

The goal of NeezaNeedles Babywearing Handmade, is to provide the most beautiful, comfortable, high in quality yet affordable carriers available to everybody. Our mission is to spread the babywearing love :)

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Selamat datang ke NeezaNeedles Handmade Asian-style Baby Carrier – Meitai, Buckle Tai, Onbuhimo, Soft structured Carrier (SSC).

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Kenapa Asian-style Baby Carrier?
Kami di NeezaNeedles percaya mengendong anak memerlukan keselesaan kepada kedua pihak- bayi yang dikendong dan ibu atau bapa yang mengendong. Maka, produk kami tertumpu kepada pengendong ‘double-shoulder’ di mana berat bayi adalah tersebar secara seimbang dan ditampung dengan sejajar oleh kedua bahu pembawa. Bayi selesa, pembawa juga turut selesa.

Carrier jenis ini TIDAK SAMA dengan carrier seperti jenama Anakku, Bjorn (to name a few) sebab lebih ergonomik, di mana kaki bayi tidak tergantung (kaki bayi yang tergantung adalah tidak baik untuk joint dan dan lekapan kepada badan pembawa lebih selamat, maka tidak menyakiti si pembawa (tidak menyakiti belakang badan).

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Berkenaan dengan NeezaNeedles Carrier:
1. Carrier yang dijual (mei tai, buckle tai dan onbuhimo) adalah dijahit sendiri oleh saya. Maka akan mengambil masa untuk menghasilkannya.
2. Saya akan cuba untuk mengeluarkan ready made product, insya Allah jika masa adalah mengizinkan.
3. Those carriers yang dalam album adalah kepunyaan orang (based on order), maka carrier tersebut tidak dijual. Jika anda ingin membeli, pilih kain pada album fabric selection, hubungi saya tru email, pay some deposit for confirmation dan saya akan jahitkan carrier anda dalam jangka masa 15 hari.
4. Kain saya kebanyakkan adalah 1yard sahaja maka sesuai untuk dibuat satu carrier, so kalo ada yang berkenan, pilih cepat kalo tak org lain akan rembat :).
5. Straps biasanya saya pilih yang mana bersesuaian dengan fabric yang dipilih.

NeezaNeedles Hand Crafted Baby Carrier - in local news

Harian Metro, 15 Jun 2011:

NeezaNeedles Handmade Babywearing Gear:

Mei Tai

NeezaNeedles Mei Tai - price start from RM120

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Onbuhimo

NeezaNeedles Onbuhimo - price start from RM120

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Buckle Tai.

NeezaNeedles Buckle Tai - price start from RM145

Sewn with lots of love, offering at such an affordable price. Yes you heard it right. Its in good quality and affordable. :)

I believe that NeezaNeedles baby carriers can help many families to make their everyday life easier - in a very stylish way!

Made with lots of love from PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia

Every carrier (mei tai, buckle tai, onbuhimo, Merak SSC) now comes in nice storage pouch:

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Purchase Policies
Like to buy my product? Read here on the product purchase policies.

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How to Order

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Instructions with video tutorial
I have made some video tutorial, where you can closely see how you to wear NN-carrier correctly. The instructions shall proceed here.

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Photos Gallery
Click here to view collection of photos on my handmade product and my experience with babywearing.

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Contact Me:
Interested with my product? To purchase or anything you would like to inquire, fell free to drop me a line at info[at]neezaneedles[dot]biz .

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Thank you and Have a Nice Day ahead :)

MERAK SSC (soft structured carrier)

The current NN-BT is carbon-copy of the NN-MT substituting the long shoulder straps and the waist straps to buckle and webbing. The body panels, sleeping hood and the style of stitching is totally the same. The NN-MT is basically adopting the conventional design of meitai that widely sale in the market.

I've tested most of the buckle tai that I made by wearing Hamza, and in my opinion, the carrier seems to be perfectly fitting him and me. However, feedback that I got from customers mostly due to sizing. Some was happy saying the size is perfectly nice, some commented that the size is a bit big, and some even request for bigger but shorter body panel as their baby like to hands-out rather than stuck in.

At first I'm thinking to come out with two different size of NN-Bt(for baby and for toddler), however when I was busy sketching the design, I suddenly remembered about my first baby carrier (the modern crotch carrier) which the design is simple but baby can freely hands-out when they want. So, I adopted the design with a twist that fit the meitai/buckle tai style - which is more ergonomic compare to the crotch carrier.

The crotch carrier (picture courtesy Google.com):

Some sketch that I've made:

Later come out with this solution - buckle tai that hopefully can fit well with both baby and big baby.

And started to make the prototype using Zoology fabric from Michael Miller.. hehehe.. I know, I should used normal plain fabric first but I am so sure this is going to work so being impatient, I just used that beauty.. (Alhamdullilah jadi..)

The NeezaNeedles Buckle Tai V2:

So what's the different from NNBTv1:
i. Curved neck rest - which is suitable for baby to sleep as I stuff in that part with hard interfacing and thick span
ii. Foldable neck rest for baby to hands-out, or simply for big baby to freely enjoy their view (without being block)
iii. neck rest is supported with adjustable buckle. Baby can hands-out yet with the neck rest up (not folded)
iv. Detachable sleeping hood - with the existence of the neck rest, the extra fabric of sleeping hood is no longer needed. However, you can request to have the sleeping hood if you want to.

That's all I can think for now.

Now some action picture, Me-Hamza-NNBTv2:

Front carry with sleeping Hamza:

Front view

Front side view - hands in

Front side view - hands out but in-buckled

Back carry (Hamza awake):

Hands-in

Hands-out

*all pictures were taken using phone camera. The fabric is more stunning irl.

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So heres some description on the new buckle tai- MERAK, together on how to wear the carrier : Front carry and Back carry.

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New Feature:
Loop to hang pacifier or key chain :)

Update:

Finally, after few of trial and error, I am now confident enough to say that I have converted Merak buckle tai to become Merak SSC (soft structured carrier). The biggest different absolutely the waist pad- previous buckle tai was made using hard interfacing sandwich with layer of fabrics, but this SSC was made using soft foam giving more structured shape, yet flexible and light. And due to this breakthrough, there will be slight increase to the price (I am so sorry...) but the good news is the new price will only be effective next month, AND another good news is all carriers (mt, bt, onbu and MERAK) is now come with a very nice storing pouch.

To purchase: info[at]neezaneedles[dot]biz

NURI Ring Tai

NURI Ring Tai is basically a combination of a mei tai and a full-buckle carrier without the plastic buckles or hard webbings that could feel uncomfortable. The soft wrap-like shoulder straps are fixed to small sling rings. The straps feel incredibly comfortable and they fit for parents of different size and babys of all ages.

The body panel of the NURI Ring Tai is the same style as we use with our MERAK SSCs and also the detachable sleeping hood is included. The NURI Ring Tais body panel are made entirely from beautiful fabric sandwiched with layer of fabrics to make it sturdy. The body panel comes with darts so the baby's bum will settle in a deep pouch. The high panel part gives support to baby's back and neck. It secured with tie and button, which can be unbutton and you can fold the head/neck rest for baby to hands-out, or simply for baby to freely enjoy their view (without being block).

There is also soft padding under the baby's legs.

The waist band is a SSC type, thick padded and slightly curved with 200 cm (80 inch) long. The shoulder straps are about 115 cm (45inch) long, 15 cm (6 inch) wide and softly padded on top of the shoulder. The straps are made of corduroy fabric all the way.

The shoulder straps are attached to small aluminium rings on each side of the body panel and you can adjust the straps smoothly. The idea is the same as with a regular ring sling. Spread the fabric evenly over the rings to make it slide more easily when tightening. It is also good practice to un-fasten the straps from the rings every now and then and string the straps again because they can become twisted over time.

We offer four sizes of NURI Ring Tai carrier: baby, standard, toddler and pre-school. The age and size recommendations are average estimations. If you can't decide between two sizes, please think about when do you need it the most: do you need the carrier right now or maybe a little later. If you need it now, the smaller size is probably right for you. But if you want to be able to use the carrier as long as possible, then you might want to choose a bigger size.

Baby size (3-18 months): Hight 38cm (15inch), width between the legs 33-35cm (13inch)

Standard size (4m-2 1/2 years,): hight 40 cm (17inch), width between the legs 35-40 cm ((14inch)

Toddler size (2-4 years): hight 45 cm (19 inch), width between the legs 41cm (16inch)

Pre-school size (3-5 years): hight 50 cm (19 1/2inch), width between the legs 44cm (17 inch)
** Hight of the carrier is exclude the waist band.
** Toddler and Pre-school size would have a different price compare to Baby and Standard size

To wear this carrier, first wear the waist band the out side facing towards your body so that the panel will hang directly towards the ground in the starting position.

In a front carry the shoulder straps are crossed behind your back. You can attach the straps to the opposite side rings even before you put the baby on. Just leave them as loose as possible. Then pick up the baby and set her in front of you and facing towards you. Lift the body panel up and lift each shoulder strap over the baby and over your head one by one and cross them over your back. Make sure the fabric is not twisted. If this doesn't feel the right way for you, you can also fix each strap to the rings after the baby is in the carrier.

Tighten the straps: pull all loose material rings after the baby is in the carrier.iarial down from your shoulders and back and as close to the rings as possible. Then pull the strap right behind the rings backwards little by little. This is easier to do, if there's no weight on the strap that you try to tighten so lift the strap from the shoulder with your other hand.