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.

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[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... 🤔