Author Topic: Beaver and Braintan mittens (Read 4304 times)

Outbackbob48 · « **on:** February 21, 2020, 09:48:51 am »

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 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 21, 2020, 10:22:27 am »

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.

Deerhunter21 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 21, 2020, 10:34:50 am »

nice job bob!!

YosemiteBen · « **Reply #3 on:** February 21, 2020, 12:04:40 pm »

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 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 21, 2020, 01:32:15 pm »

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

Hawkdancer · « **Reply #5 on:** February 21, 2020, 01:43:32 pm »

Nice pair of mittens there!
Hawkdancer

bjrogg · « **Reply #6 on:** February 21, 2020, 08:15:43 pm »

Those are some nice looking mittens Bob and Ed. Nothing like mittens for keeping hands warm and those look warm
Bjrogg

chamookman · « **Reply #7 on:** February 22, 2020, 01:15:24 am »

Very nice Guys

- Bob

BowEd · « **Reply #8 on:** February 22, 2020, 03:45:53 am »

Outbackbob48....Usually the kit beaver here are a paler color than older beaver and you saying they were small beaver is the only reason why I mentioned color.

BrianS · « **Reply #9 on:** February 22, 2020, 07:35:24 am »

Bob,
EXCELLENT work!
brian

Tracker0721 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 22, 2020, 03:14:15 pm »

Those are awesome! Super impressive

Stoner · « **Reply #11 on:** February 22, 2020, 07:16:30 pm »

Oh crap, now you did it another project for "The List".

Jus' kiddin', Those are sweet, great craftsmanship. John

Pappy · « **Reply #12 on:** February 24, 2020, 04:11:17 pm »

Very nice Bob, that will keep them hands warm. Folks ant much on mittens in this part of the country but I have a pair my brother in law gave me that he had in the army, them things are warm, used them a couple years ago when I went ice fishing in the UP, they were great and worked better that any gloves I have used.

Pappy

Outbackbob48 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 25, 2020, 08:19:38 am »

Pappy, one of the reasons mitten work so well for me is that my hands are always wet and can never seem to get gloves on with out a fight, mittens are perfect for things like ice fishin and water trapping where your hands are wet a lot, or ya need some fine dexterity that won't work with gloved hands. Hard for me to tie fish hook on with gloves on but quick bare hand works then back in my mittens to warm up ahhh. Bob

Pappy · « **Reply #14 on:** February 25, 2020, 02:48:38 pm »

I hear ya Bob, that's why almost all my gloves have the fingers cut off at the 2nd knuckle, Miss Joanie gets mad at me because she buys me a pair of gloves and the first thing I ask her is where are the scissors.

When hunting I use the hand warmer you gave me to keep my finger tips warm other wise I just wing it.

Pappy

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