Progress on the hangarok piece

Doing needlework on a tiny piece of linnen is not a good idea if you are moving and doing a life laundry at the same time. Things that small tend to disappear...
So, when I thought it was lost and gone forever, I found it again last week, yay!! I don't have to tell you what great fun it is to continue stitching this again.
Now, about these 'celtic' type images and designs, I have it on good authority that these animal designs are actually Viking! The spirals are authentically Celtic and much older, about 1000 years!! So I have nothing to worry about and will put this on my new hangarok.
Please send me your comments!

In a few weeks I will start a naalbinding tutorial again, any requests? I was thinking children's socks but let me know if you are interested in something else

New tunic

Back on track folks!

Here's a picture of Rune's new tunic. She is growing up fast and one of my friends, Patricia, made this tunic for her. I was too busy doing other things to make life go smooth again. Hopefully I can show my things again real soon.

The fabric is very thick and warm wool and the belt and trim are also wool, tape woven that is.

Still here...

Dear all,

This blog is still active!! But we are in the middle of moving and doing a "life laundry" so that we can get an easier and less busy life... and thus more time for costuming and blogging!
Bear with us please

Warm regards
Arda

New hangarok

To my surprise I found some left-over grey wool which was enough for a new hangarok for Rune. It was only an hour's work and the 'turtle brooches' are actually buttons from the
haberdashery!!! Ain't life grand when everything comes together :)

Meet Ojo or Wickie

Well, my dear friends, meet Ojo **, the finished naalbound teddy bear I made for Rune. The face I made last week was just a trial face, but not really all that bad so I found some nice linen and created a similar face - or rather: bear snout. It turned out really well.
The ears were made of a simple Josephine knot with a few extra stitches in the second round.



Rune absolutely loves her bear!

** July 7th: Rune has decided the bear should be named Wickie...

Naalbound bear

Okay, okay, okay.... I know naalbound toys weren't found. Only those two wooden horses. But can you blame me?

I started at the top, with the bear's head. A Josephine knot and then 7 stitches in the loop. After this, I increased until I had the right shape and continued in the Oslo-stitch. You can easily do this yourself, all you need to decide is how big you want the bear to be. This is the head


I just made the bear up as I went along, you know, no real pattern just do what I felt like. I made an extra circle of green wool to create a soft and big tummy on the bear. The legs and hands will be half red/half green, to create an image of unity on the entire toy. I have said this before: toy making isn't just for the kids, it is just as much fun for Mummy!!

This is the trial face. I used some old flannel to see how it turned out. Runa thought it was cute, so I'll use some decent Viking-linen to make the real bear face.

More on the hangarok

When the embroidered piece is done I plan to do this on the hangarok as well, this is tape woven actually! I'll try to add the pattern soon for you too.