We go a viking!

I have been in a funk deciding on my new garb. My husband and I took a long hiatus from eventing, had a baby.. but now that things are settling down, I have to ask myself.. what shall I wear?! After several moves, most of my garb has disappeared. I was extreamly torn between wearing italian cira 1490, and viking.

I have a crazy hard time drafting patterns (I tried making crib sheets for my son's crib.. and it went wrong in every way. My math is quite bad, to say the least), so I was leaning towards italian as there are several patterns that can be modified to be reasonably historic. But then, while thrifiting at St. Vinnies, I stumbled upon a wool army blanket. It doesn't sound that appealing on paper, but it screams, "GARB!!!" For only $18, I got about 2 yards of  100% virgin wool in a reasonably period green.

I originally wanted to make my husband a tunic, but he has insisted that I go ahead make myself something.. the fabric seems like it would lend itself very well to a viking apron dress - and since Egils is only 2 months away. I guess that's what I'll make.

Now.. you might remember. I said I was bad at drafting patterns. Well, I decided to cheat. >.> I find a modern pattern that I can use as the base for my viking dress.