I finished the mittens! :)

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Uh, I live. I've been distracted by mostly good things. Anyway!












To go with the yellow-white-purple-black (*nonbinary pride flag) color scheme of the outer layer, I snuck some Gender into the patterns. They're traditional Latvian ornaments, or sometimes my stylized interpretations of them. The Sun sign was historically mostly used on women's folk costumes, while the Moon sign was for men's clothes; so I used both of them and also the star, which we might have borrowed from Finno-Ugric cultures (so from people who are free of grammatical genders). Also, the zigzag kind of combines the signs and colors of one male deity and one female deity. The other patterns are various lucky symbols.

Comments

[double_dutchess]

Wooah, those mittens are NEXT LEVEL! I would have been impressed with just regular mittens, but these are something else. The colours! The patterns! The symbolism! The little pompoms! The semi-detachable fingers part!! (I'm seeing that right, yes? You can wear them with and without fingers? I've never seen mittens like that before.) Wow, just wow. Now I truly understand why this was such a big project. These mittens are incredible.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Thank you so much! 💙

Haha, yeah, I figured there's no kill like overkill and went almost directly from my knitting hiatus to the yarn crafts gesture of a lifetime. :'D My sibling therem_harth called these mittens "high-tech".

"I'm seeing that right, yes? You can wear them with and without fingers?"
Yep! :) They're what the kids call convertible mittens.

Hopefully I will have more time for other projects now. :)

[cornerofmadness]

those are so much fun

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Thank you! :) I did have a lot of fun making them.

[cornerofmadness]

glad to hear it. I love them

[desdemonaspace]

How pretty those are! If they were mine, I'd never wear them - I'd FRAME THEM, or something. Too gorgeous.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Hee, thank you very much! 💙 From what I've read, it was actually not unusual to treat gifted mittens that way (in the folk art tradition where colorful mittens could be the local peasant equivalent of an engagement ring in certain contexts). If the recipient also feels that way, I might have to make another, simpler pair for everyday use... 🤔