Winter Moccasins

For this past Christmas, Russ and I decided, instead of gifts for each other, we would save up and purchase DIY winter moccasin kits from Lure of the North. We saved up and with all of our Christmas money we were able to order our kits just after Christmas. Thank you family!

The kits came the day after we got back from Frostbite. We started working on them right away and were able to finish them in a week. And that was just working on them almost every evening and over the weekend. We even stayed up until 3am one night, working on them. The next morning after that, I woke up and realized I had done the last part I worked on wrong. The kit that Lure of the North has put together is easy to follow, staying up all night to work on them probably isn't recommended. If you don't understand the booklet provided, you can watch the YouTube video for clarification. We used both as it was nice to have the visual.

The foot part of our moccasins are bison and the uppers are cow hide. Inside, there is a wool insole and a wool boot liner. Then you just layer up with wool socks depending on the temperature outside. These moccasins are for below zero temperatures.

The day after we finished our moccasins we were super excited to try them out, so we took the kids sledding after supper. Owain was worried about sledding in the dark so we all took our headlamps. A bonus to going in the evening was we had the whole hill to ourselves.

It wasn't super cold out that night, only about -7, but my feet actually got too hot with the medium weight wool socks I was wearing. The other thing I loved about the moccasins was that they are super light compared to my klunky winter boots. It was much easier to run up the hill in the moccasins since they didn't weigh me down. I can't wait to try them out in colder temperatures.

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