Chapter 18 | Page 16
on May 27, 2021
at 12:00 am
Sometimes many hands make more work.
Thistil Mistil Kistil
by Sarah Schanze
Velkommen!
Thistil Mistil Kistil is a comic about vikings, Norse gods, and their adventures together (or against each other). Updates are on Thor’s Day.
Like Brooks’ Law: “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later”
I feel this very hard.
Coal’s secret is out; now everyone will want him to do their mending.
Only if it’s mending sails lol.
I’d love some modern day ‘tough guy’ try and make it seem Coal is less manly for being good at stiching when of course a crew would have someone good at it because there would inevitably be rips and tears even during a normal voyage.
The part I’m going love it when everyone else discovers the ship is alive for all intents and purposes.
Definitely most sailors probably knew how to mend sails at the very least! Some might even know how to sew skin back together, lol.
I love that Hedda stitched hers perfectly, if it were clothing
She’s real good at that kind of mending!
I love how (assuming that was your intention) their stitches ‘evolve’ during it. Hedda starting real fine and neat, as if she was repairing clothes, but halfway through perhaps noticing that Coal’s stitches are bigger and sturdier and more suitable for sail mending, and starts to try to match it.
Ibrahim starting out with going everywhere. Ending up going more straight along the edge, but not really getting the hang of how to do proper neat cross-stitches yet.
Arne might perhaps know how the stitches ought to look like, but are too much of an excitable young kid to do them properly – and most of all, do them straight. And what I assume are loops of loose thread are real adorable.
Haha, good eye! It was intended to be the opposite, but the idea still stands that they started to change as time went on. Hedda lost focus and reverted back to the stitch she was used to, but was always too small. Ibrahim tried to start doing the herringbone stitch but never quite got the hang of it. Arne was a train wreck from the start, lol. Those are definitely loose thread loops, something that has happened to me more times than I like to admit!
Yeah, I read the stitches from top to bottom too. I love this comic.
Thank you!!
A lot of thought into personality and motivation, as expressed through thinking a lot about the proper craft of sail-mending. Stunning.
Aww, thank you! I’m glad this scene is going over well.
I think Arne was trying to sign his name.
Or somebody’s name, anyway.
Needs to work on his handwriting.
I read the stitches from bottom to top, I guess I knew that was the direction Coal was going in. I love the amount of story-telling revealed in such a small but unique way!
*I guess BECAUSE I knew
Jeez, does anyone double-check their comments before posting around here?
Thanks! It was fun coming up with different styles for sewing for each character, haha.