Shoe-time

It turned out that Maja's shoes were too small for her. Rickard will make new ones for her, but not until after the 14th, when Nylöse has a shoe meeting. So I will try to make a pair of simple machine sewn shoes from reasonably thin leather for her to wear on saturday. The pattern will be similar, but instead of sewing the uppers to the edge of the sole by hand the sole will be from thin leather too and sewn like you would with fabric. Then I'll put a felted wool sole inside and bind the edges with ribbon or a leather strip to make the shoe more stable. I did this for Vendela and Valeria another year and it worked just find. Theoretically I should be able to make a pair of hand sewn turn shoes for her before saturday, but I have too many other things to do and I'm really tired after work.
But if I'm able to make a good pattern tomorrow she will have shoes by saturday.

And another thing

Maja's hose are probably also too small for her. I won't be able to make new hose before the weekend, but will start on them after that. Making patterns for hose can be a little tricky, especially if the person you make them for is a squirmy 2-year-old.