The string is also useful when you have to take one mitten off to do something and need your hands free. It just hangs from your sleeve and then you just put it back on when you are done.
I'm definitely one of those Finns who gets VERY excited by snow every winter, and I'll be 40 in a few years. I love it when others are excited by the snow, too :) The more the merrier, says I!
I'm a winter girl, and I get very grouchy when we have dry and/or warm winters. Everyone else around me is like "YES" and I'm over here grumbling in the corner. Maybe it's the Finn on my mother's side.
👋. Norwegian here! You called? We've been having a nice cold spell here these last few weeks. Which is a treat here I live, on the west coast of Norway. We usually only have sleet and slush and sour winds in January/February. So I can appreciate that giddy feeling when you finally get proper snow! Your mittens turned out great! I made a more modern version a couple of years ago (using a sewing machine) in wool felt. So nice and warm. I have since lost them... Truly sad. But my mother has knitted me som felted ones, and they have been perfect in this -6 weather we have had. Sadly now the temperature has warmed up, everything has started to melt and soon we will go back to the normal sleet and slush again... 😕 Enjoy your snow while it lasts!
I've been trying to learn your language a little. failed so far. too many cases not enough motivation. but I seriously wonder now if there is a verb for "rubbing snow into someone's face" in finnish.
@@Summer-isnotcool similar to my mothertoung (german) we call that "to soap somebody up" (not the best translation) it has the same conotation of washing.
@@Summer-isnotcool oh. and of course now I want to know the phrase. what is "to give someone a snow wash" in finnish? I dare to try what I know and ask this in finnish. correct me (and forgive me) if I butcher it. Mitä "to give someone a snow wash" on suomeksi?
This mountain dweller (well valley but the Rockies are all around) has been huddling inside this weekend because it has been too cold to snow. My sheep though are happy as can be. Thankfully it is now above 0F (I think that's -17C) now and snowing again. Come on snow! We need more snowpack!
Meh, I'm right here with you, we need the snowpack, and normally we hit the coldest spot in the nation, and we're not even that. But they got snow in AMARILLO! and a LOT of it!! Guess God felt sorry for all the Texans who couldn't go skiing last year.
Love it! CRUSHED my hand in my youth; some good surgeons fixed it right up. Except when it is cold and damp. I get you. Really messed with my swordplay while I was still fighting. I've got an old flotki rug. It's a bit worn down; but that might be perfect. Too heavy for mittens, but garment wool is definately too light. Thank you for the patterns and ideas! I DO have some lambskin pieces that are short pile. You have my mind filled with projects. Thank you! Love your videos!
I was in college when I decided to tie string on my mittens to feed through the coat sleeves. I had lost 3 pair before that and got tired of having to make yet another pair. The amazing thing was, I had a bunch of fellow classmates congratulate me on my idea (yes, I was copied).
@@margaretkaraba8161 being a mother who made these for my son when he was a toddler. Much better that continually replacing mittens. It is funny though; my grandmother (born 1883) made them for her babies.
Your mitts look great. Don’t your neighbours know you’re internet famous and need quiet to do your work? 😂 Growing up here in snowy Canada we had a lot of mittens knitted by our granny, and when we were very little they all had the idiot strings. I sometimes think I should add idiot strings to my mittens now (44 years old) to keep from losing one of every pair I buy.
In knitting mittens those sheep fluff bits are called "thrums " you add them in as you knit. Probably it would work the same if you are nialbinding. I don't knit mittens because even with cords they get lost quickly and that is a recipe for relationship failure. And yes we are knee deep in snow since November and it is warm today at -20c after a week of extreme cold weather.
You know, one of my favorite memories of garb in the real world was driving back from an SCA event in 10th century Norse dress-through nearly a foot of snow and counting. I had to pull off to the side of the road to bust the ice off my windshield halfway home, and a road worker pulled over to see if I was okay-but when he saw how I was dressed in my hangerok, coat, hat, mittens, and all that, he said, "You seen to know what you're doing in the snow," and drove off.
As someone who lives in the Mojave desert, snow is something that I never see except from afar, and I LIKE it that way. When someone says to me, "I can't stand the heat" I readily remind them that it's never been so hot that my car ended up in a ditch. I am still likely to make the mittens, because while we don't get snow, we do get cold, a LOT
You could perhaps get rid of the shedding if you felted them a bit more. Just use water and soap and rub your hands together while wearing them. They will also get warmer. Just be careful so that you don’t shrink them too much! My grandma in Finland still did nalbind mittens. My dad swears that those were much warmer than knitted mittens. One day I’ll learn how to make those so that I can make my dad a pair!
Ah, yes, Monday again. "The hell is in my tea ? Ah, it's tea leaves." - Jimmy, Feb 21 Knitted thrummed mittens are also a thing ! I have plans to make a pair for my dad's next bday/or Xmas. You replace a few stitches every row by a bit of very loosely twisted roving, and the insides felt beautifully to make the warmest thing ever. Hope we get some more snow this winter, didn't even think of checking out Old Town in the snow !
Thank you for the short explanation of how to do the “thrumming” and what it’s called. Will be searching that on the internet for more details if needed. But, I have plenty of roving. So it would work nicely for me.
You know, judging from how many lost gloves and mittens i see laying about on the streets every day, I've often wondered if thats why some items turn up in the archeological and material culture record more often than others. Folks just losing things in amounts that require frequent replacement only to be lost again , rinse and repeat... I can think of how many gloves or mits I've lost over the years myself lol.
I think they would of taken more care not to lose things in the past. Material was much harder to come by. Now a days people don’t think about it when you can get a 4 pack of those horrible stretchy gloves for a couple of bucks.
@@robintheparttimesewer6798 i agree with you that people would be alot more mindful of their possessions in the past from before our throwaway culture was a thing, but I think some items just get lost easier than others, so while its not necessarily like now where at any given time you find 6 sets of kids mittens laying about on the playground every day, I think that over time folks losing a mitten here and there or even a cap in really windy weather would be more prone to happening than losing other items.
@@severerisk1581 yes you’re right. A few minutes after I posted it occurred to me it was stupid. Mothers wouldn’t have made idiot straps for mittens if they weren’t getting lost!! Then I remembered the Time Team episode I watched last night while sewing at one point a piece of a belt was found and had probably been lost by someone walking by 200 years later and wasn’t part of the site. I was going to fix it after I finished what I was doing but instead I will apologize.
@@robintheparttimesewer6798 its all good, no worries)) you have agood point that people were mindful and certainly not as wasteful by any means compared to current society. Im a bit of a pack rat and I often save fittings , screws and all sorts of things for reuse later(I've recognized that I do this to a fault) , and while we don't think much about this now, in the past someone doing this at an old homestead and then it being left and forgotten , generates finds for modern archeologists and researchers to rack their brains over. )
@@severerisk1581 I’m guilty of being a pack rat too. You never know when it will come in handy. Some of it is even organized so that I can find it later. I have recently found the 2 patterns I put together to make hats for my kids. My son told my grandson about the hats so I need to make the next generation silly hats
I LOVE that you finally feel like a “real” You Tuber and have a Patreon account! Good for you! Thanks for showing this Floridian how to make Viking mittens lol! 😂😂 Your sense of humor really had me smiling this morning. Thank you for that, Jimmy! Enjoy that snow! ❄️☃️❄️
Hey Jimmy come to Canada we have snow!!! Well there are parts that don’t get lots like southern British Columbia but the east coast can get storms that drop a meter or more!
@@NefariousBella yes it is but it’s at elevation so they get snow. Vancouver lower mainland and the southern island get a lot of rain but not much snow. I am in southern Ontario we’re expecting 15 cm (6 inches) by morning which more than usual for the area. But it’s snowing in Texas right now too. Weather is weird
Only reason my ears perked up is I was an avid snowboarder and Whistler has been on my list of musts for decades now lol. I’m south of you in the US. 🤪 we just got the ice storm Texas had.
@@NefariousBella Whistler is amazing. Well worth the visit! We just got hit too and we got more snow than they were calling for. Not to mention the drifts of snow. I will be shoveling this afternoon and arguing with my grandson who tells me he shoveled on the weekend so shouldn’t have to shovel more!! The logic of 7 year olds. Hopefully it’s good packing snow so he can build a snowman!!
Since you told me to, yes, it is indeed snowy here in Norway for months on end during winter :P (We've just had a terribly cold two weeks - about -20 degrees Celsius where I live)
As the wife of a programmer, I agree that code is magic and programmers are black magicians. Also, I'm jealous of your snow. I've only ever seen snow once in my life. I live in South Africa, so we don't get snow except in a few select locations. But... If you want sunshine, come on down, we've got spare. Bring sunscreen.
«Oh, that’s what it is like all the time where I live etc.» Slightly more daylight wouldn’t hurt though, it gets proper dark pretty early :) Happy I found your channel, proper introductions to a lot I didn’t know, thanks for sharing!
LOVE!! 💕 As a sheep farmer and history geek, I so appreciate that it’s so much more about how it actually works than how fancy it is! And we had 4 feet (over a meter) of snow the other day so warm is good!
I've not been down to Dunbar's Close for ages. Used to love there as a quiet place for a picnic lunch. For your next video I want to see you operating your camera while wearing mittens.
That is a fun coincidence! We also have a lot of snow right now where I live and I am also not used to it. And I don't have gloves, my hands are freezing. Maybe I can find some scrap fabric in my stash...
Every time I hear you speak welsh at the end of the vid it reminds me that I really should try to find someone else in Glasgow who is a Cymro. I was fluent as a kid, and have pretty much lost it through lack of use since.
The one biggest thing I hate about having moved, is the lack of snow in the new place, however whenever any snow falls, it's basically powder that smelts within a few days...
Yet more quality content. We keep getting promised snow here but no real luck yet. So I will live vicariously through people with actual snow to play in. :)
I can't believe how much your channel has grown since I subbed! I first saw the video on "Dances with Karens" ( I know you know which video I'm referring to) and I subbed and you had less than 9k Now you're up to 12.4 k and I feel like a proud grandmother
I haven't been subscribed for long but I just made a pair of these type of gloves when I been watching the rest your content so it's fun to see you make a video of this desgin. Love your content and much love from Sweden! ❤️
greetings from the Chihuahuan desert where currently it is -10C and snowing, which generally only happens two - three days a year, but usually 3 inches or less (>7.62 cm) and today we have 7 inches (17.78cm on the conversion table). All gloves are welcome and necessary today. genuinely glad to see this today.
I was promised snow and got an incredibly destructive ice storm that cut power out in the entire Portland area (by which I mean miles in every direction, and hundreds of thousands of customers) I’m happy to watch another of your videos now that I have power and hot water again. Hot cocoa for me today. And eventually I’ll have cleaned up enough fallen tree branches to be able to get out the front door again.
I don't know why, but I'm picturing your neighbours playing the Gallehus horns 😂 I was wondering, in dark age/medieval times, were mittens actually more used than gloves? And would this be related just to a certain degree of proficiency in sewing techniques, or do mittens keep warmer than gloves, or any other reason?
@buckets-of-dirt yeah, seems reasonable! I actually thought about it, but sounded too easy to me, and I've never worn mittens, so I actually had no experience myself 😂 I always think there are multiple reasons contributing to things, especially when talking about history: that's where my question came from
The second time you said Akranes, with the emphasis on the first syllable, was pretty close, but you'll want to lengthen the first A a bit. Aaakra-nes. That E being like in 'berry'.
We finally got a decent snow here in Central Indiana last week. We, the "okay Boomers", remember snow "back in the day" when it was worth investing in cross country skis and ice skates. Jimmy, your editing is priceless. So much personality. I keep far away from tea and coffee during your videos because snorts are not fun to clean off my computer monitor. And they do come frequently. Thank you so much.
What you need for mittens is a semi felted ancient shearer’s blanket ( complete with moth holes of authenticity). Lovely and warm, doesn’t need edge finishing, and no shaving needed!
Your videos make my depression go away lol I can't watch without giggling about something 😂 also, it has snowed where I live and we don't get snow usually. So I feel your pain lol
Tip for horrible shedding wool blankets - *cold* wash them in a machine on a heavy duty setting without soap or detergeant, hang them somewhere to dry, then hang them outside and beat the shit out of them (like they used to do with carpets.) THEN! Hand wash them again in slightly more than lukewarm water with hair conditioner (if possible, the stuff for "fine, flyaway hair") and only half-rinse it. The first part should get rid of a lot of the dust already in the wool, and the conditioner will stop the fibres in the wool breaking and shedding so much, and by leaving a little of the conditioner in, it also reduces issues with static (so, for example, making it less likely for any fuzz that does come off to stick to you, or jump into your tea.)
That whole outfit, I LOVE it! And the mittens are cute! :D I wish that fashion would get into fashion again, especially cloaks xD And you look good in that rugget look with your beard, so feel free to keep it! :D
Pity you can’t knit a mobile phone with idiot strings....I could do with that. I am watching a welsh Viking shaving his mittens......sometimes I love my life choices lol. You looked pretty warm in your Viking kit as you skulked behind the hedge lol
Snow it pretty, but I much rather leave snow for winter vacations!! My area hasn’t had any snow since well before I was born. (Okay, the mountains around me can get snow in the worst cold storms, but I’m in a valley where it doesn’t snow.) we just get rain, and even then not as much of that as we need. We’ve had a series of storms blow through the past couple of weeks, which is good!
Perfect! Uphill both ways in a blizzard with a polar bear chasing you, or a friend with a snowball works too. Warmed up to -15 C today in Alberta so there will be people out in their summer shorts again next week (no joke).
I'm in Florida. 75°F and stormy today. 😭 I've a friend not far out of Edinburgh who occasionally sends me pics of all the snow they've been getting. Utterly jealous. Love the mittens!
Got my Vanilla Earl/Divine Highlands mix in hand today😁☕ Shame yours got attacked by fluff, though tbf mine always seems to contain a bit of cat hair and I haven't died yet. I feel the need to make a pair of these mittens now. I've never owned mittens but they seem much easier than making gloves (which suck to make)! We almost never get snow here but it's still quite cold this year and my fingies are crying.
My son (8) totally needs a string on his mittens! He has lost more hand knit hats and mittens than I care to think about. I watched your video this morning and am currently stitching a mockup out of fleece to test the sizing. Then I'll look at my little wool stash. Thanks for the interesting video, I look forward to adding a pair of cozy mittens to my kit!
Actual, honest-to-goodness snow. Glad it put a smile on your face. Those look like wonderfully cozy mittens. (My hubby agrees with your choice of earl grey cream tea, his fave too). Thanks for sharing. Take care.
This was so enjoyable to watch. Thank you! Here in Canada we appreciate good warm mittens. Seeing you in full garb in the snow truly gives a feel for the time and what people would look like. Keep warm and safe and looking forward to more of your videos!
Icelander here: actually great job on the pronunciation! You got the r's perfect in Garðar and the accent is always on the first syllable in Icelandic :)
Wonderful! Tis the season of forever winter in Michigan, and those look like proper mittens! We all had idiot mittens as a kid, and an occasional snowball fight in a graveyard, though not as cool as that graveyard. You should run around in that outfit more often, you have the perfect backdrop for it. Looked really cool. Thanks!
We have had beautiful snow here for a glorious week, and yesterday I got to take out my 1910 clothes for a romp through the winter-y landscape as my niece took a few very nice pictures. As of today the temperatures are on the rise and I'm so happy that we were able to do that before everything is back to the usual grey that is winter in the city.
Diolch!! Your humour was snow brilliant! I love the fact that you've made a quick bit of kit in an hour and nearly condoned shaving the elderly. Stay well!
Allow me to counteract the effect of the Scandinavians by saying that here in Dublin, although we were forecast quite a bit of snow, we only got one or two half hearted showers. I only enjoy it for the novelty though, couldn't be hacking months of it :)
Wow you got so much snow!! I did the exact same thing with a thrift store felted scarf lol. It looks like you had a lot of fun out in the snow too :)))
I have a very similar pair made from felted wool (courtisy of Rachel from Crafty Beggers) that I use in the forge, they are excelent at keeping my hands cool when handeling hot metal.
You did get a proper amount of snow... as a far southerner in the USA I say "sigh, it looks fun". Relentless sunshine and heat gets very, very, very tiresome.
"Always ask permission before shaving your elders." Words to live by.
Merch it 😋
The string is also useful when you have to take one mitten off to do something and need your hands free. It just hangs from your sleeve and then you just put it back on when you are done.
I'm definitely one of those Finns who gets VERY excited by snow every winter, and I'll be 40 in a few years. I love it when others are excited by the snow, too :) The more the merrier, says I!
I'm a winter girl, and I get very grouchy when we have dry and/or warm winters. Everyone else around me is like "YES" and I'm over here grumbling in the corner. Maybe it's the Finn on my mother's side.
I am a tropical girl and I *love* snowy winter! 😃😄😂❄️
Whenever the winter is just wet/warm I am like "...bruh what's the point..." 😫🙈
I love how such a simple and practical solution to kids losing mittens has been around for centuries.
👋. Norwegian here! You called? We've been having a nice cold spell here these last few weeks. Which is a treat here I live, on the west coast of Norway. We usually only have sleet and slush and sour winds in January/February. So I can appreciate that giddy feeling when you finally get proper snow! Your mittens turned out great! I made a more modern version a couple of years ago (using a sewing machine) in wool felt. So nice and warm. I have since lost them... Truly sad. But my mother has knitted me som felted ones, and they have been perfect in this -6 weather we have had. Sadly now the temperature has warmed up, everything has started to melt and soon we will go back to the normal sleet and slush again... 😕
Enjoy your snow while it lasts!
oh hey, i'm from the west coast as well! we basically had snow that stayed for two weeks recently. it was pretty nice.
*Rubs snow to Jimmy's face in Finnish*
I've been trying to learn your language a little. failed so far. too many cases not enough motivation. but I seriously wonder now if there is a verb for "rubbing snow into someone's face" in finnish.
@@karowolkenschaufler7659 You're not far off. It's not a verb, but we do call it giving someone a snow wash. 😁
@@Summer-isnotcool similar to my mothertoung (german) we call that "to soap somebody up" (not the best translation) it has the same conotation of washing.
@@Summer-isnotcool oh. and of course now I want to know the phrase. what is "to give someone a snow wash" in finnish?
I dare to try what I know and ask this in finnish. correct me (and forgive me) if I butcher it.
Mitä "to give someone a snow wash" on suomeksi?
This mountain dweller (well valley but the Rockies are all around) has been huddling inside this weekend because it has been too cold to snow. My sheep though are happy as can be. Thankfully it is now above 0F (I think that's -17C) now and snowing again. Come on snow! We need more snowpack!
Meh, I'm right here with you, we need the snowpack, and normally we hit the coldest spot in the nation, and we're not even that. But they got snow in AMARILLO! and a LOT of it!! Guess God felt sorry for all the Texans who couldn't go skiing last year.
Love it! CRUSHED my hand in my youth; some good surgeons fixed it right up. Except when it is cold and damp. I get you. Really messed with my swordplay while I was still fighting. I've got an old flotki rug. It's a bit worn down; but that might be perfect. Too heavy for mittens, but garment wool is definately too light. Thank you for the patterns and ideas! I DO have some lambskin pieces that are short pile. You have my mind filled with projects. Thank you! Love your videos!
God I hated those little mittens with a string as a child. Literally the worst. Wish I had some now that I am an idiot. 👊😔
I was in college when I decided to tie string on my mittens to feed through the coat sleeves. I had lost 3 pair before that and got tired of having to make yet another pair. The amazing thing was, I had a bunch of fellow classmates congratulate me on my idea (yes, I was copied).
@@margaretkaraba8161 being a mother who made these for my son when he was a toddler. Much better that continually replacing mittens. It is funny though; my grandmother (born 1883) made them for her babies.
Your mitts look great. Don’t your neighbours know you’re internet famous and need quiet to do your work? 😂 Growing up here in snowy Canada we had a lot of mittens knitted by our granny, and when we were very little they all had the idiot strings. I sometimes think I should add idiot strings to my mittens now (44 years old) to keep from losing one of every pair I buy.
In knitting mittens those sheep fluff bits are called "thrums " you add them in as you knit. Probably it would work the same if you are nialbinding. I don't knit mittens because even with cords they get lost quickly and that is a recipe for relationship failure. And yes we are knee deep in snow since November and it is warm today at -20c after a week of extreme cold weather.
NO KIDDING. If I hand knit you a pair of mittens and you lose one? Relationship over, even if you are my actual sibling.
YES! THRUMS!! I did this knitted once - it was fun and amazing!
You know, one of my favorite memories of garb in the real world was driving back from an SCA event in 10th century Norse dress-through nearly a foot of snow and counting. I had to pull off to the side of the road to bust the ice off my windshield halfway home, and a road worker pulled over to see if I was okay-but when he saw how I was dressed in my hangerok, coat, hat, mittens, and all that, he said, "You seen to know what you're doing in the snow," and drove off.
Fun story, your subtitles translate your ending in Welsh to "cool, I'm a troll". I thought you would be as amused as I was.
As someone who lives in the Mojave desert, snow is something that I never see except from afar, and I LIKE it that way. When someone says to me, "I can't stand the heat" I readily remind them that it's never been so hot that my car ended up in a ditch.
I am still likely to make the mittens, because while we don't get snow, we do get cold, a LOT
I’ve hear those strings keeping the mittens together called “mittens minders”!
You could perhaps get rid of the shedding if you felted them a bit more. Just use water and soap and rub your hands together while wearing them. They will also get warmer. Just be careful so that you don’t shrink them too much! My grandma in Finland still did nalbind mittens. My dad swears that those were much warmer than knitted mittens. One day I’ll learn how to make those so that I can make my dad a pair!
I could indeed! Alas, that would have yielded the opposite effect to the one I was after. Would have made things a heck of a lot easier though!
I don't know you or your dad, but I really want you to make him some mittens, please.
Ah, yes, Monday again.
"The hell is in my tea ? Ah, it's tea leaves." - Jimmy, Feb 21
Knitted thrummed mittens are also a thing ! I have plans to make a pair for my dad's next bday/or Xmas. You replace a few stitches every row by a bit of very loosely twisted roving, and the insides felt beautifully to make the warmest thing ever.
Hope we get some more snow this winter, didn't even think of checking out Old Town in the snow !
Thank you for the short explanation of how to do the “thrumming” and what it’s called. Will be searching that on the internet for more details if needed. But, I have plenty of roving. So it would work nicely for me.
@@kitdubhran2968 yeah, def look it up. You'll find plenty of explanations of how it works online.
You know, judging from how many lost gloves and mittens i see laying about on the streets every day, I've often wondered if thats why some items turn up in the archeological and material culture record more often than others. Folks just losing things in amounts that require frequent replacement only to be lost again , rinse and repeat... I can think of how many gloves or mits I've lost over the years myself lol.
I think they would of taken more care not to lose things in the past. Material was much harder to come by. Now a days people don’t think about it when you can get a 4 pack of those horrible stretchy gloves for a couple of bucks.
@@robintheparttimesewer6798 i agree with you that people would be alot more mindful of their possessions in the past from before our throwaway culture was a thing, but I think some items just get lost easier than others, so while its not necessarily like now where at any given time you find 6 sets of kids mittens laying about on the playground every day, I think that over time folks losing a mitten here and there or even a cap in really windy weather would be more prone to happening than losing other items.
@@severerisk1581 yes you’re right. A few minutes after I posted it occurred to me it was stupid. Mothers wouldn’t have made idiot straps for mittens if they weren’t getting lost!! Then I remembered the Time Team episode I watched last night while sewing at one point a piece of a belt was found and had probably been lost by someone walking by 200 years later and wasn’t part of the site. I was going to fix it after I finished what I was doing but instead I will apologize.
@@robintheparttimesewer6798 its all good, no worries)) you have agood point that people were mindful and certainly not as wasteful by any means compared to current society. Im a bit of a pack rat and I often save fittings , screws and all sorts of things for reuse later(I've recognized that I do this to a fault) , and while we don't think much about this now, in the past someone doing this at an old homestead and then it being left and forgotten , generates finds for modern archeologists and researchers to rack their brains over. )
@@severerisk1581 I’m guilty of being a pack rat too. You never know when it will come in handy. Some of it is even organized so that I can find it later. I have recently found the 2 patterns I put together to make hats for my kids. My son told my grandson about the hats so I need to make the next generation silly hats
Rough, Tough and Cosy; the best of the seven dwarfs.
I LOVE that you finally feel like a “real” You Tuber and have a Patreon account! Good for you! Thanks for showing this Floridian how to make Viking mittens lol! 😂😂 Your sense of humor really had me smiling this morning. Thank you for that, Jimmy! Enjoy that snow! ❄️☃️❄️
Icelander here
The way you said Akranes the first time was pretty good, emphasis is always at the start of the word in icelandic :)
I need your neighbours silencing powers... Teach me your wisdom ._.
We don't get much snow in Australia either so I understand your excitement!! Can you do a video on HA viking cloaks please? :)
Sure thing, Mardi! It's in the works :)
@@TheWelshViking love your work!!
Hey Jimmy come to Canada we have snow!!! Well there are parts that don’t get lots like southern British Columbia but the east coast can get storms that drop a meter or more!
Whistler is in BC yea?
@@NefariousBella yes it is but it’s at elevation so they get snow. Vancouver lower mainland and the southern island get a lot of rain but not much snow. I am in southern Ontario we’re expecting 15 cm (6 inches) by morning which more than usual for the area. But it’s snowing in Texas right now too. Weather is weird
Only reason my ears perked up is I was an avid snowboarder and Whistler has been on my list of musts for decades now lol. I’m south of you in the US. 🤪 we just got the ice storm Texas had.
Lol heck yeah, currently in the prairies and there’s a polar vortex: -34C brrr.
@@NefariousBella Whistler is amazing. Well worth the visit! We just got hit too and we got more snow than they were calling for. Not to mention the drifts of snow. I will be shoveling this afternoon and arguing with my grandson who tells me he shoveled on the weekend so shouldn’t have to shovel more!! The logic of 7 year olds. Hopefully it’s good packing snow so he can build a snowman!!
Since you told me to, yes, it is indeed snowy here in Norway for months on end during winter :P (We've just had a terribly cold two weeks - about -20 degrees Celsius where I live)
Stay cozy!!
The face you made when your neighbours started grinding is a MOOD. I choked on my spicy noodles.
I'm not the only one who drinks their cocoa/coffee, etc. with the spoon left in! Yay.
As the wife of a programmer, I agree that code is magic and programmers are black magicians.
Also, I'm jealous of your snow. I've only ever seen snow once in my life. I live in South Africa, so we don't get snow except in a few select locations. But... If you want sunshine, come on down, we've got spare. Bring sunscreen.
"Snow problem" 😂😂 you're fired.
Thanks for adding mittens to my list lol
as someone who lost a couple fingertips to a jointer last year, the validation that the cold makes bone scars hurt worse was weirdly comforting
Ouch!!
Absolutely gutted to hear, I hope you’re doing ok :( Yeah, it really affects a few people I know who have had industrial accidents
@@TheWelshViking Hand injury solidarity!
«Oh, that’s what it is like all the time where I live etc.» Slightly more daylight wouldn’t hurt though, it gets proper dark pretty early :) Happy I found your channel, proper introductions to a lot I didn’t know, thanks for sharing!
LOVE!! 💕 As a sheep farmer and history geek, I so appreciate that it’s so much more about how it actually works than how fancy it is! And we had 4 feet (over a meter) of snow the other day so warm is good!
Pouting Jimmy’s expression is on point 😂. (When the grinder starts)
Grinder starts; Jimmy swipes left aggressively.
Bernie Sanders approves of this.
Absolutely. He's a big fan of handmade mittens, and hats with felt moose antlers.
Isn’t it just wonderful mittens-on-a-string are still used today!
as someone who grew up with long, snowy winters (New Hampshire), your enthusiasm for snow is...heartening
I've not been down to Dunbar's Close for ages. Used to love there as a quiet place for a picnic lunch.
For your next video I want to see you operating your camera while wearing mittens.
That is a fun coincidence! We also have a lot of snow right now where I live and I am also not used to it. And I don't have gloves, my hands are freezing. Maybe I can find some scrap fabric in my stash...
"Oh, I've got wool in my tea now!"
Relatable. Though I don't think it's happened to me while sewing yet, but I used to tablet weave a lot... :D
It funny him talking about snow, I’m 40 and never seen snow, welcome to Australia
12:17 made me literally laugh out loud so hard I scared my dog.
Every time I hear you speak welsh at the end of the vid it reminds me that I really should try to find someone else in Glasgow who is a Cymro. I was fluent as a kid, and have pretty much lost it through lack of use since.
The one biggest thing I hate about having moved, is the lack of snow in the new place, however whenever any snow falls, it's basically powder that smelts within a few days...
I feel like someone had of have walked past you in the cemetery/graveyard in the evening and thought they were seeing a ghost from c. AD 800
Editing Jimmy is my favorite person 😂
As a Cali gal now living somewhere it snows occasionally...I hate it! You can have it all! But I’m glad it brings you joy ☺️❄️
Yet more quality content. We keep getting promised snow here but no real luck yet. So I will live vicariously through people with actual snow to play in. :)
I can't believe how much your channel has grown since I subbed! I first saw the video on "Dances with Karens" ( I know you know which video I'm referring to) and I subbed and you had less than 9k
Now you're up to 12.4 k and I feel like a proud grandmother
I haven't been subscribed for long but I just made a pair of these type of gloves when I been watching the rest your content so it's fun to see you make a video of this desgin. Love your content and much love from Sweden! ❤️
greetings from the Chihuahuan desert where currently it is -10C and snowing, which generally only happens two - three days a year, but usually 3 inches or less (>7.62 cm) and today we have 7 inches (17.78cm on the conversion table). All gloves are welcome and necessary today. genuinely glad to see this today.
This is exactly what I needed today. From the southeastern US, please enjoy that snow for me~ I miss it so much!
Nicely done! ... I miss snow .... sigh
I’m a So Cal native; snow is that stuff we either drive to visit or watch on shows like this. Looks pretty!
I was promised snow and got an incredibly destructive ice storm that cut power out in the entire Portland area (by which I mean miles in every direction, and hundreds of thousands of customers)
I’m happy to watch another of your videos now that I have power and hot water again. Hot cocoa for me today. And eventually I’ll have cleaned up enough fallen tree branches to be able to get out the front door again.
I don't know why, but I'm picturing your neighbours playing the Gallehus horns 😂
I was wondering, in dark age/medieval times, were mittens actually more used than gloves? And would this be related just to a certain degree of proficiency in sewing techniques, or do mittens keep warmer than gloves, or any other reason?
mittens keep your hands warmer than gloves because all your fingers are together
@buckets-of-dirt yeah, seems reasonable! I actually thought about it, but sounded too easy to me, and I've never worn mittens, so I actually had no experience myself 😂 I always think there are multiple reasons contributing to things, especially when talking about history: that's where my question came from
I would assume gloves are much more difficult to make and therefore more expensive. Soooo... poorer people would possibly go for the mittens
I love when you do outside stuff in Edinburgh - I spend the whole time trying to work out exactly where you are from the landmarks I can see! 😍
The second time you said Akranes, with the emphasis on the first syllable, was pretty close, but you'll want to lengthen the first A a bit. Aaakra-nes. That E being like in 'berry'.
Ah great, thanks!
We finally got a decent snow here in Central Indiana last week. We, the "okay Boomers", remember snow "back in the day" when it was worth investing in cross country skis and ice skates. Jimmy, your editing is priceless. So much personality. I keep far away from tea and coffee during your videos because snorts are not fun to clean off my computer monitor. And they do come frequently. Thank you so much.
Our Jimmy is a snortable lad...
What you need for mittens is a semi felted ancient shearer’s blanket ( complete with moth holes of authenticity). Lovely and warm, doesn’t need edge finishing, and no shaving needed!
Your videos make my depression go away lol I can't watch without giggling about something 😂 also, it has snowed where I live and we don't get snow usually. So I feel your pain lol
wonderful video as always, and getting to see a full winter kit is so much fun
Tip for horrible shedding wool blankets - *cold* wash them in a machine on a heavy duty setting without soap or detergeant, hang them somewhere to dry, then hang them outside and beat the shit out of them (like they used to do with carpets.) THEN! Hand wash them again in slightly more than lukewarm water with hair conditioner (if possible, the stuff for "fine, flyaway hair") and only half-rinse it. The first part should get rid of a lot of the dust already in the wool, and the conditioner will stop the fibres in the wool breaking and shedding so much, and by leaving a little of the conditioner in, it also reduces issues with static (so, for example, making it less likely for any fuzz that does come off to stick to you, or jump into your tea.)
"Look at my face!" Oh Jimmy, we can't look away! :D
That whole outfit, I LOVE it!
And the mittens are cute! :D
I wish that fashion would get into fashion again, especially cloaks xD
And you look good in that rugget look with your beard, so feel free to keep it! :D
One of the best notifications, Jimmy releasing a new video!
When it snows at twilight it is breathtakingly beautiful, as you have nicely shown. Those gloves would be great for snow sculpting. Which is a thing.
Pity you can’t knit a mobile phone with idiot strings....I could do with that. I am watching a welsh Viking shaving his mittens......sometimes I love my life choices lol. You looked pretty warm in your Viking kit as you skulked behind the hedge lol
Snow it pretty, but I much rather leave snow for winter vacations!! My area hasn’t had any snow since well before I was born. (Okay, the mountains around me can get snow in the worst cold storms, but I’m in a valley where it doesn’t snow.) we just get rain, and even then not as much of that as we need. We’ve had a series of storms blow through the past couple of weeks, which is good!
Perfect! Uphill both ways in a blizzard with a polar bear chasing you, or a friend with a snowball works too. Warmed up to -15 C today in Alberta so there will be people out in their summer shorts again next week (no joke).
I've always loved mittens, so much warmer. Wonderful job on making your own mittens!💙
I live in a desert and it snowed about a foot over the weekend.
I'm in Florida. 75°F and stormy today. 😭 I've a friend not far out of Edinburgh who occasionally sends me pics of all the snow they've been getting. Utterly jealous. Love the mittens!
Got my Vanilla Earl/Divine Highlands mix in hand today😁☕ Shame yours got attacked by fluff, though tbf mine always seems to contain a bit of cat hair and I haven't died yet.
I feel the need to make a pair of these mittens now. I've never owned mittens but they seem much easier than making gloves (which suck to make)! We almost never get snow here but it's still quite cold this year and my fingies are crying.
My son (8) totally needs a string on his mittens! He has lost more hand knit hats and mittens than I care to think about.
I watched your video this morning and am currently stitching a mockup out of fleece to test the sizing. Then I'll look at my little wool stash.
Thanks for the interesting video, I look forward to adding a pair of cozy mittens to my kit!
Yeah, I should go out in the snow in my medieval clothes more often. Do I do that? No. Which is a shame. I do not have any period gloves, though.
Actual, honest-to-goodness snow. Glad it put a smile on your face. Those look like wonderfully cozy mittens. (My hubby agrees with your choice of earl grey cream tea, his fave too). Thanks for sharing. Take care.
This was so enjoyable to watch. Thank you! Here in Canada we appreciate good warm mittens. Seeing you in full garb in the snow truly gives a feel for the time and what people would look like. Keep warm and safe and looking forward to more of your videos!
Icelander here: actually great job on the pronunciation! You got the r's perfect in Garðar and the accent is always on the first syllable in Icelandic :)
Great news! Takk fyrir!
I literally feel your pain. I shortened a finger years ago, and keeping it warm is a THING.
Wonderful! Tis the season of forever winter in Michigan, and those look like proper mittens! We all had idiot mittens as a kid, and an occasional snowball fight in a graveyard, though not as cool as that graveyard. You should run around in that outfit more often, you have the perfect backdrop for it. Looked really cool. Thanks!
We have had beautiful snow here for a glorious week, and yesterday I got to take out my 1910 clothes for a romp through the winter-y landscape as my niece took a few very nice pictures. As of today the temperatures are on the rise and I'm so happy that we were able to do that before everything is back to the usual grey that is winter in the city.
We finally got decent snow here in Seattle. I used it as an excuse to go out in my Greenland tunic and hood.
So... I live in Canada right now I think I am supposed to wake up to 20mm of snow but I am glad you got a little dusting so you could make this video
You are Guaranteed to make me smile when I need it. I promise to get consent before shaving an elder.
Diolch!! Your humour was snow brilliant!
I love the fact that you've made a quick bit of kit in an hour and nearly condoned shaving the elderly.
Stay well!
I've seen somewhere that a Norse glove had a liner and some nalbinding around it like it was a layer,
Nalbinding is sooo easy,
Allow me to counteract the effect of the Scandinavians by saying that here in Dublin, although we were forecast quite a bit of snow, we only got one or two half hearted showers. I only enjoy it for the novelty though, couldn't be hacking months of it :)
Ohh that what it's like all the time here!!! 😜
Actually it's fairly mild for February here in Oslo today.
This was brilliant! *adds to my (already a mile long) to-make list*
7:15ish You're right in this case with gusset (an inserted piece to make space or ease stress on a portion of the piece).
Wow you got so much snow!! I did the exact same thing with a thrift store felted scarf lol. It looks like you had a lot of fun out in the snow too :)))
Yeah! Snow!
I have a very similar pair made from felted wool (courtisy of Rachel from Crafty Beggers) that I use in the forge, they are excelent at keeping my hands cool when handeling hot metal.
"Proper snow" you're adorable!
Well, looks like I'll just have to make these then!
I have snow problem with your delightful puns but I'm sure some folks are frozen out by them.
Lol, I’m in winter wonderland winter 6 months of the year sometimes more!🇨🇦
Such a great video Jim, just delightful! Inspired to go make a pair now myself...
You did get a proper amount of snow... as a far southerner in the USA I say "sigh, it looks fun". Relentless sunshine and heat gets very, very, very tiresome.
All due respect, I disagree. Happy little desert rat, am I. Stupid windy, but still so much sunshine ❤
I'm teaching myself how to tan rabbit hide, and would like to sew a pair or so of rabbit fur gloves and mittens.