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This is a Viking apron dress of linen cloth hand-sewn with linen thread. The seams are a running stitch with the raw edges tucked inward and whip-stitched. It's sort of like a french seam that isn't French.
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This is another Viking apron dress of linen cloth hand-sewn with linen thread. Go back one space for a description of the seams.
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This is a Viking under dress of wool cloth hand-sewn with wool thread for the colder events. I used flat felled seams on this one since it will be next to skin.
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This is a Viking caftan I made for my husband and also as an entry in Ice Dragon 2007. It is made from green wool, hand-sewn with gray wool thread, and embroidered with 2 shades of yellow wool in the Mammen style. It won the clothing category for the Novice Pentathalon that year as well as provide warmth for my husband at Ice Dragon 2008!
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This is a linen Viking headdress embroidered with yellow wool in the Mammen-style. Silk ribbons form the ties. This was completed as a group entry in Ice Dragon 2007 with Fairmont Fiber Freaks.
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This is a Viking apron dress I made for myself in the Summer of 2006. It is navy blue wool hand-sewn with off-white wool thread. I completed my first attempt at the chain stitch around the top of the dress. It is still one of my works that I am most proud of.
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This is a linen Viking headdress embroidered with blue and yellow wool. The acanthus leaves are of the Mammen-style. I completed this entry as a group entry to Ice Dragon 2006 with Fairmont Fiber Freaks.
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This is a tunic made from cotton with woven cotton trim as a Christmas present for my friend, Fiachna, in 2005.
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This is a linen chemise I made for my mother for Christmas 2005. It is embroidered with dark green cotton thread with a design of my own creation, simulating Elizabethan blackwork.
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This is the first tunic I ever made. It is, alas, machine sewn and made from cotton. However, I am still proud of the Mammen masks embroidered around the neckline. This was made in exchange for a pair of Viking shoes made by my then future husband.
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