Aros sewing circle and Lödöse mittens

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 08:32:19 GMT

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 Lödöse-mitten pattern I bought at Lucia in December. So I worked on those instead.
I managed to put together the first mitten, hand sewing with wool. It was lovely to work with wool again.

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.

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.

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.

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Aros sewing circle and Lödöse mittens