Black wool Viking apron dress

Black wool Viking style apron dress (worn over a black linen under dress)

In my attempts to start cutting into some of my “stash” and reduce the endless boxes, I started looking at my groups of fabrics that I’ve already allocated for certain projects – namely my Viking Age costume stash.

I built these groupings around the capsule collections that I already identified, and for the Viking group, I decided that although I have a black linen apron dress, I would like to add a black wool apron dress to this collection as well.

Grey wool (?) circle skirt

Grey circle skirt

Once I started on my second bias-print knit long winter skirt in October, I decided to raid my fabric stash for a few more fabrics that would work well for a long winter skirt. These are amazing to wear over leggings (especially thermal leggings) in the winter, as they add that little bit extra insulation against the cold.

Along with tan wool, green twill, and a few other fabrics, I also pulled out this lovely grey wool suiting as well.

Brown wool circle skirt

Brown wool circle skirt

Yes… I made yet another circle skirt!

I grabbed this brown wool out of my stash. I originally bought this at the grandmother’s sale for about a dollar per meter.

This is one of those fabrics that I didn’t really have allocated for any other project, so in my goal of making up some skirts, it was easy to grab instead of one of the other fabrics I might have really wanted to use for a specific project.

Embroidered Viking-style hood

Embroidered Viking-style hood

A while ago I made a few different hooded capelets. The kind of garment to throw over a jacket to add a hood and a bit of shoulder-cozy for the days that don’t need a coat and tuque (knitted hat). Originally I made them just for costuming wear, but with my favourite one, I found that I was wearing it in the fall for mundane wear as well over my leather jacket.

In all of my adventures using the Maker Space’s embroidery machine, I thought one really good use for an embroidered design would be the front panel of one of these hoods.

Wool viking hoods

Two new steel blue/grey wool hoods – one adult, one child size.

Count this as a bit of a throwback post in itself – I actually made these ages ago… took the photos – but never ended up blogging about them!