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Outbackbob48:
I had a few small tanned beaver and some braintan and been wanting a pair of these for awhile, About 6 hrs of hand sewing and heres what I got,( all lock stitch hand sewed) Only 4 weeks of winter left but my hands shall be warm. Bob

BowEd:
Sweeeet! Nice work.Gotta love it.Good dark red color on your beaver.Did you make your own pattern?They use up more material than a person realizes.Long ago I made some out of sheep skin,but really like those beaver.

Russ:
nice job bob!!

YosemiteBen:
Thoise look good and warm. Dont need em here in Yosemite, we have been hitting 60! Folks are hoping for a miracle March as we are only at 58% snowpack right now.

Outbackbob48:
Ed, I took apart and old pr of leather mittens and kinda went from there, Took me awhile to figure out the thumb, inside out and right side out stuff. I had a pair of sheep skin xxlg mittens when I was a young and they were my favorite go to trapping mitten, wet hands still slid right in and oh so warm after ice cold trap session. Your mittens look great and I bet they are super warm. Most of our beaver here in Pa. run this dark color, once and awhile we get a pale  one. I got a couple of muskrats tanned that I may try next. Ben still cold here but least amount of snow in years, I think we got less than 50" total and usually have 150" by now. It's okay by me, alittle snow can go a long ways. Bob

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