Green Viking Hood

I made my lovely husband, Mr. Bellamy, a viking hood (kinda.. I cut it, pinned it, then he got excited and decided to hand sew it himself :D). As you might have read from my previous post, I had an army blanket cutting mishap; this is made from the wool scrap. I followed this tutorial here, but had to tweak it slightly since the mister is a larger guy. I just made everything a few inches bigger, and cut down the gussets until Mr. Bellamy was happy with the fit. He hand sewed the wool using a mustard cotton embroidery thread.

This was probably one of the easiest patterns to do. It's seriously only a rectangle, with two square gussets sewn into it.

 

We'll be adding linen trim along the bottom edges, and a possible lining. I also want to embroider a Vegvísir, (nordic compass) on the right hand shoulder; while not period, the vegvisir is a good for the vagabond Mr. Bellamy, and is easily recognizable as norse.