In addition to being SCA, Hjalmar is also a member of a Karoliner reenactment group (late 1600’s, early 1700’s, during Sweden’s “stormakt” time). Therefore, last year he taught himself knitting to make appropriate socks to wear with his knee breeches. Keldor saw that, and suggested he make me a pair, in dark blue, to go with my brown linen knee trousers.
Much to my delight, when Sofi and Hjalmar arrived yesterday he took out his knitting, some beautiful dark blue wool socks, which were worked from the knee down, he had passed the heels, and was closing in towards the toes. So he tried them on me several times over the course of the evening last night and today, adjusting them to perfectly fit my feet. This evening he finished them, and I am in love with these beautiful, comfortable socks!
In other news, Keldor has finally started insetting the reindeer antlers we got from Torun this autumn into the moose antlers we have been using as a hatrack. Soon it will be a much better hat rack!
It just needs the epoxy and first layer of spackel covering the seam to harden so he can do the final smoothing over of the join.
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