#54: Viking Coat

needleworkes ♦ February 12, 2015 ♦ Leave a comment

This is not completed yet, but I thought I’d show a “sneak peek” of my current work. I am making a Viking Coat using the pattern from Viking by Nille Glasel.

I decided to work the Acanthus design from Embroidery from the Tenth Century Viking Grave at Mammen Denmark around the hem, neck and sleeve edges of the coat.

It is worked in split stitch with 1 strand of Appleton’s wool on a lovely taupe woolen fabric. Rather than have the simple acanthus vine all around the edge, I decided to vary it by working a vine circle at the front bottom edges.

So far, I have been stitching for 10 days and half the bottom hem is done – in total the hem will be 136 inches (3.5 metres)

Update: The bottom edge is finished! There’s 86 hours into it so far. I’ve made the coat to a wearable stage, but fully intend to continue stitching until the border is worked around all edges including the sleeves.