Wherry Warmers

Knitting
October 2022
Aran (8 wpi) ?
20 stitches and 29 rows = 4 inches
US 4 - 3.5 mm
US 6 - 4.0 mm
191 - 197 yards (175 - 180 m)
small/medium/large/XL
English
This pattern is available as a free Ravelry download

Size: S/M-M/L-L/XL.
Length (with cuff folded): 23-25-27 cm.
Diameter: 19-20-21 cm.
Materials: 100g Aran weight wool/yarn.
Gauge: 20 sts x 29 rows = 10 cm square in stockinette st.
Needles: 4 mm/3.50 mm

Pattern contains instructions for knitting mittens in the round - or flat.

A basic mitten pattern in Aran weight yarn - ideal for that special skein you’ve been looking for a ‘showcase’ project for, or for using up odds and end of yarn left over from other projects.

Wherries are shallow keeled sailing boats used, since the 1600s, to carry cargo on the Norfolk Broads. However, since the development of cheap road transport and freight vehicles, they have all but disappeared as working vessels.

Traditionally wherries are clinker built and powered by one sail, usually black in colour, due to the tar and fish oil used to protect the sail from the elements. Today just a handful of wherries remain, Albion – in the photograph, is the only cargo wherry still sailing The Broads, she is owned by the Norfolk Wherry Trust and moored at their wherry base, on Womack Water near Ludham, Norfolk (UK).