The Norwegian Club of Queensland Inc.

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  • Week in review: The Norwegian Club

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    Hi everyone! Welcome to week 2 of the Norwegian Club week in review blog. This week, we’ve been busy finalising work for the Scandinavian Festival. On Monday, we had a meeting with the Brisbane City Council about food safety and stall regulations; followed by a great Scandinavian Festival committee meeting where we announced our contribution…

  • Creating the Viking apron dress – stage 2

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    So you’re back for part 2! The drawing, cutting and pinning stage. In our last post about the dress, I talked about taking your measurements to make sure the size of the material you ended up with was right. I’ll start by correcting myself now with the estimates I put on the size of the…

  • Creating the Viking apron dress – stage 1

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    Hi everyone… so this post will be the first in a series detailing my progress as I undertake the journey of creating a (slightly) stylised version of the commonly accepted viking apron dress. While there’s some disagreement as to the exact style of the apron dress (given that archaeological finds aren’t exactly able to provide…