An unique order out of New York State has given us the fun opportunity to experiment with a ‘mini-moc’ design, and has reminded us that we love custom orders!  Our customer sent us a box of beautifully beaded indoor moccasins, and tasked us to transform them into outdoor winter moccasins by adding a felted wool liner, rubber sole, canvas upper, and beaver fur trim.  Kielyn and I had a lot of fun crafting and Tammy now has 5 pairs of beautiful winter moccasins!
If you have any ideas of custom winter clothing you would like crafted, or modifications you would have to your existing items, we’d love to hear from you.

Thaw Conditions on Smoothwater Lake.

We’ve just returned from an 8-day trip to the summit of Ontario along with 4 other participants.  The trip was an incredible adventure, characterized by great camaraderie and some wild swings in the weather.  Read more or view all the photos through our Past Trips page.

Rrrroww!

We’ve just finished our final mitt shop of the season – it was a wee little one, with only 2 (awesome) participants, but it was nonetheless a whole lot of fun, and we’re glad to see a couple more Sudburians will now have warm hands in the winter!

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The completed mocs!

We have just completed what may be our last moc-shop of the 2010/ 2011 winter season, and it was another wonderful weekend!  We had a group of 8 fun participants and everyone walked away Sunday evening with a creative, beautiful pair of completed winter moccasins!
View the photos here.

If you are interested in our combo felted wool-inner and deerskin-outer mitten workshop this coming weekend (Feb 5/ 6), contact us at: info@lureofthenorth.com.

Thanks to everyone who participated this weekend and made it such a great time!

Finished Mitts!

Photos from this past weekend’s mitten workshop have been posted here.  Thanks to everyone who attended and helped make this such a great weekend.  Our next workshop will be a winter moccasin workshop on January 29 & 30th in Sudbury – download the .pdf flyer for more info.

A tough portage (and tougher lady!).

We have just gotten back from an 8 – day trip to Ishpatina Ridge in Temagami.  This is the same trip we will be guiding in February.  It was a beautiful trip, and has us both extremely excited to take others out here next month.  There are some great photos available here.

We have added a links page listing other traditional winter camping and craft resources.  If you think you have a relevant site which may be of interest to our visitors, please feel free to contact us with your information.
Visit the links page!

We have added a “Past Trips page, to share our stories, photos and videos from past adventures.  Check it out here.

Our 2011 trip schedule is now available online.  We have two 8-day trip offerings in February.  Space is still available in one of those trips.  Go to the trip page for more info.

A small events calendar has been added and is visible on the right side of many of our pages.  You can use this to quickly identify upcoming events, or find available dates if you would like to host a private workshop.