BlackBlack

Yep. It is true. It is dry now and been in the sun light. Accidentally I ended up to plant dye Iron Age black shade. How? Can't tell you yet, because it is the information for my upcoming book, but black it is. Made by the sources that have been locally available always and officially for 300 years, perhaps at least 500. I have used 2 different baths for this black. 

Oops

In May I have stepped to plant dye wool as a natural cycle of the year according to the traditional Forest Sámi life style. These are experiments for my upcoming book.

The traditional plant dye for traditional Forest Sámi knitting patterns is going on well. Red is red and yellow is yellow. Red is made by madder and yellow by special birch leaves.

But very big oops pop out from my green kettle!!! Gosh! It is black. Accidentally. It supposed to be green but I made it Iron Age black. 😆At least it seems black now when it is wet. We'll see how it will turn out when hanging in the sun. 

BobbinLaceBookmark No2

I designed and made this bobbin lace book mark. I used DMC Embroidery Thread and white linen bobbin lace thread for this project. I used blue loose end variegated shades threads that runs from and edge to another. It is very easy and beginners level bobbin lace project.

ChildrenGloves

I designed and knit these pretty knitted gloves for a 4 yrs old child. I used Novita Merino 4 ply yarn (100 % wool) (50 g = 230 m). They are fine, warm, soft and cotton candy pink. Excellent for chilly spring, summer and autumn days up here in the north. They are small but it was fun to knit them. You need shorther knitting needles to make it easier. I used 15 and 10 cm long knitting needles size 2 (EU).

NewTwist

Today we finished the traditional shoe making course at my work with our great teacher Tommi Mantila who runs traditional shoe making courses around Lapland Finland. I made these traditional shoes with a new twist. The teacher helped me to design them. The new twist is that this pair is actually focused on the minimalist shoe / barefoot shoe direction. They are made of softer leather and softer structure with as little heel as possible. They have also some special ergonomic design for my problem feet. Also, they are designed to be used with woollen socks.

I still need to make the shoelaces for them. And I need to grease them at least once more. But I can't wait to start to test them. They will match perfect with my traditional Sámi costume but also with just normal western clothes too.