Valhalla's Things — Two Linen Hoods

A woman wearing a white hood with a deep shoulder covering that
ends in a point at about waist height.

The hood is not fitted, has a slight point because of the
rectangular construction, and on the torso part one can see the
big square gusset that gives it fullness.

I’ve been influenced again into feeling the need for a garment.

It was again a case of multiple sources conspiring in the same direction for unrelated reasons, but I decided I absolutely needed a linen hood, made from the heavy white linen I knew I had in my stash.

Why? I don’t know. I do like the feeling of wearing a hood, and the white linen should give a decent protection from the sun, but I don’t know how often I’m going to wear these instead of just a hat. On the other hand the linen was already there and I needed something small to sew.

A woman wearing a hood in the same shape, but made in
tartan-print flannel.

It looks slightly smaller than the linen one.

My first idea was to make a square hood: some time ago I had already made one out of some leftovers of duvet cover, vaguely inspired by the S , because I have a long-term plan of making one a bit more from scratch¹.

I like the fact that this pattern is completely made out of squares and rectangles, and while the flannel one is quite fitting, as suitable for a warm garment, I felt that by making it just a cm or two wider it would have worked nicely for a warm weather one, and indeed it did.

A woman wearing some sort of white veil that covers the head
and has two scarf-like appendages, one wrapped around the
shoulders and falling on the back, and one falling on the front
side, kept in place with one arm.

Except, before I even started on the square hood, I started to think that the same square top would also be good for a hood-scarf, one of those long flowy garments that sit on the head, wrap around the neck and fall down, moving with the wind and the movements of the person.

Because, let’s be honest. worn in a way that look like a veil they feel nice, it’s true. But with the help of a couple of pins then you can do this.

A woman wearing what looks like a deep hood over some sort of
fabric face mask, showing only the eyes, in a way that resembles
characters in a video game.

There are again two scarf-like edges that fall on the front and
back.

And no, I’ve never played that game², and I’m not even 100% sure what it is about, other than killing people, climbing buildings and petting cats³, but that’s not really an issue when making a bit of casual cosplay of something, right?

Anyway, should anybody feel the need to make themselves a hood or ten, the patterns have been released as usual as #FreeSoftWear: square hood and hood scarf.

I’m not going to raise the sheep :D I’m actually not even going to wash and comb the wool, I’ll start from the step just after those :D↩︎
because proprietary software, because somewhat underpowered computers and other related reasons that are somewhat incidental to the game itself.↩︎
at least two out of three things that make it look like a perfectly enjoyable activity.↩︎