After Christmas and New Year celebration

Yes, I was right I feel now more and more inspired. I have made plans for this year and it looks like I will be busy :D. I have couple of projects that I will start soon. And everything will be now a lot merrier when I opened one of my Christmas presents and there was the better camera that I have longed for! Now it is only up to me to learn how to use it.

My first naalbinded socks with round start are finished. I posted at October that I have learned how to make round start . Elsa got the socks for Christmas present.

I will start making new knee high socks using the round start for me soon. I bought wool from Elzebet at Dies St Anna event for the socks. She has hand dyed the wool with madder and it is very pretty. The socks will be great for my new garters also. I got these pretty garters with bronze spiral decorations from Sahra as Christmas present :). The graters are perfect Iron Age bling bling! Sahra has also hand dyed the wool with madder and the garter is based on findings at Kaarina Kirkonmäki cemetery (grave 27).

I have decorated my Birka coat with linen tablet woven band (also a gift but I got it at Academy) made by Tece. Now my coat looks more finished.

And I have started making Viking baggy pants for UlfR :D. But more about pants later I still have lots of sewing to do.

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Joulun ja uuden vuoden juhlien jälkeen olo on inspiroitunut ja rentoutunut. Ensi vuoden suunnitelmat on tehty ja kaikenlaista kivaa on luvassa. Muutamat projektit alkavatkin jo heti miten. Projektien valossa tilanne näyttää entistäkin hauskemmalta, kun sain lahjaksi uuden kameran, jota olenkin pitkään toivonut! Nyt täytyy vaan oppia käyttämään sitä kunnolla.

Ensimmäiset pyöreällä aloituksella tehdyt sukat (joiden aloittamisesta olikin jo lokakuussa juttua) ovat nyt valmiit ja annettu joululahjaksi Elsalle.

Seuraavaksi teen uudet polvimittaiset sukat itselleni pyöreällä aloituksella. Minulla onkin kaunista Elzebethin käsin mataralla värjäämää villalankaa sukkiin, jotka ostin Annanpäiviltä. Sukat sopivat sitten mahtavasi Sahralta joululahjaksi saatuihin pronssisipiralleilla koristeltuihin sukkanauhoihin. Nuo sukkanauhoihin käytetyt langat on Sahra myös itse käsin värjännyt mataralla. Ja sukkanauhojen malli on peräisin Kaarinan Kirkonmäen haudasta nro 27.

Olen koristellut joulun alla Birkan takkini pellavasta tehdyllä lautanauhalla. Sain lautanauhan lahjaksi ruotsalaiselta Teceltä Akatemiassa :). Nyt takkikin näyttää viimeistellymmältä!

UlfRille olen aloitellut hiljattain myös tekemään viikinkiaikaisia pussihousuja. Niistä myöhemmin lisä.

Viking Finn Apron

This is my first attempt to make a Viking Finn Apron with some bronze spiral decorations. The wool is not handmade, I found the wool from normal Finnish fabric store and I dyed it little bit. So that’s why there aren’t any (tube) selvedges or tablet woven fastenings on the edges as it should be. The original fabric was more light brown than the result. The wool I used is the same fabric than my blue overdress. Dyeing changes the wool little bit fluffier (as the washing the wool does also). Then I made four strings to the edges and made four corner decorations to the apron. The string and the bronze spiral decorations to the edges are made as the instructions for reconstruction about archaeological findings of Kaarina Kirkonmäki from about 11^th century. Only change I made was with the strings that are holding the spirals together. I am not very good to make 3-loop fingerloop braids, so I took a shortcut and made plain braids.