A fun pattern featuring alternating bands of colourwork. A further exploration of the ‘Huron Wrister’ pattern inspired by the vintage knitted gloves, once owned by Herbert Wheeler of Belgrave, in the collection of the Huron County Museum in Goderich, Ontario.

The orginal gloves had alternating bands of colourwork where the background colour of the first band would become the main colour in the second band, and so on. The photos in the pattern are made with wool yarn from Steele Wool Farm. The colour palette was created by Jennifer Triemstra-Johnston owner of Pick A Posie Vintage in Blyth, Ontario.

Any worsted weight wool (#4) from your stash will work for these mittens.

Wheeler Mitts Knitting Kits (with pattern and 3 skeins of wool yarn from Steele Wool Farm near Blyth, Ontario) are available for sale from the museum. If you’d like to order a kit, please note that all proceeds from the kit sales go to the museum’s textile collection, just give them a call at (519) 524-2686. I donated the kits for just that purpose, so we can all stitch some history, try locally produced Huron County yarn, and help to care for the museum’s historic textiles all at the same time. :)

Have fun and knit on, my friends!