Up Helly Aa Hap Kit Mittens & Gloves 50% Real Shetland Wool/50% Lambswool

50% Real Shetland Wool/50% Lambswool

Jenny Jamieson

foot width = 8

3mm pair of needles

together with a photograph of a modern knitted swatch

Up Helly Aa Hap Kit Mittens & Gloves 50% Real Shetland Wool/50% LambswoolKit to make the Orange version of the Up Helly Aa Hap, for over 45 years Betsy has thought about a hap with Viking galleys longships but it never came to fruition, this is the design which Elizabeth and her mother came up with. The hap features the galleys sitting upon the waves with the torches from the Up Helly Aa procession above. The centre represents the flames of the burning galley on its way to Valhalla. Up Helly Aa is a Viking fire festival;