tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-04-08:2968174 Sewing, illumination and crafts in the SCA Lia de Thornegge 2025-02-02T09:20:59Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-04-08:2968174:476143 2025-02-02T08:32:19Z 2025-02-02T09:20:59Z public 4 Yesterday was Aros sewing circle, and I was planning on doing embroidery - but in my bag from last time I discovered the mittens I had cut out following the <a href="https://www.textilverkstad.se/vavning/vante.html">L&ouml;d&ouml;se-mitten pattern</a> I bought at Lucia in December. So I worked on those instead.<br />I managed to put together the first mitten, hand sewing with wool. It was lovely to work with wool again.<br /><br />The fabric is the very gorgeous cochenile dyed wool my apprentice Cristina gave to me when she accepted my belt. She gave me a yard of wool, and woolen and silk thread all dyed in cochenile to match. She is a dyer. I made a hood out of it last year and had only scraps left over, which I managed to patch together for these mittens. <br /><br />I had to piece a couple of the pattern pieces, and the front/back of the mittens that are one piece in the pattern I had to cut out as two separate pieces. I used a backstitch to join the pieces, using the 20/2 wool yarn Cristina also dyed to match the fabric.<br /><br />The mittens are roomy, and I think I will be able to use this exact pattern to make a pair of fur-lined mittens out of my ray cloth. The cochenile wool is fairly thick and lovely, whereas my ray cloth is much thinner. The fur will be a black fake-fur that I have already used to line the aforementioned hood.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=liadethornegge&ditemid=476143" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments