Graceful, hardy Mute Swans build their nests among the rock and heather around the lochans and crannogs of Uist and raise their young on the rippling waters. Sometimes their cousins, the Whooping Swans, visit and there is much fierce wing-flapping.
These fingerless mittens in hardy Shetland wool are named 'Swan Mitts' for the Hebridean Mute Swans and are cabled like ripples of water pooling.
This shade, 'birch brown' looks so nice worn with the 'Stag' shade of Sassenach Capelet. There's also an Inner Wild Ancestor's Apron in the same birch brown, so like the downy grey brown plumage of young mute swans:
First-footing in the Outer Hebrides is not for the faint-hearted. You need to be sure to put your best foot forward.
Noticing these merino wellies socks I made for a fisherman friend in December are the very same misty grey as the cloud-puffy sky in the Outer Hebrides today, New Year's Eve 2017.
