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Im speedrunning these things now lol. 55 inches after just just starting a day ago is pretty good, at this rate Ill have more belts than I know what to do with.

This pattern is really nice. Not very norse-y so its not my personal favorite, but for how easy it was to make its crazy good.

The back is pretty neat, though I feel like Im just narrowly avoiding an accidental swastika here lol (those are a lot easier to accidentally make than you'd think)

Hey @[email protected] its weaving time again

Back on the grind with a much simpler pattern this time lol. Im really trying to churn a few more out before Christmas so I can give everyone in my family one.

Heres the pattern. Extremely simple pattern but the results are fantastic.

Idk about the specifics of coloring but this is supposed to be a slavic belt. In the movie Amleth raids a slavic town and later takes some of their clothes off a dead man to disguise himself as a slave, so this belt would also be slavic, not norse.

I really do wish we had a c/crafts or c/weaving or something. I suppose I could shove these into c/art but that community just feels like its got the wrong vibes. I might put some in c/paganism if I ever do a pattern with some religious significance. Ill try to remember to tag you when I post them in the mega tho.

Technically I suppose any sort of craft will count as "do it yourself" but c/DIY is more for home repair/fix it jobs than for artistic pieces. Id prefer something specifically more geared toward artistry

Thats not a bad idea. Even if they dont have the actual patterns themselves, if they have images of the belts or even the full costumes it would be enough for me to work backward from.

Im so happy with how it turned out lol. Figuring out a pattern by eye and then actually making it and having it work perfectly is such a satisfying process.

It definitely went a lot faster than my other projects. Partly thats because I felt a good deal of motivation, but also working with a longer pattern means that the work never got monotonous. By the time I began to repeat steps I'd be like 9 inches along the warp length which meant my progress was much more apparent than with a smaller 8 turn pattern.

Thank you! Im super proud of it lol