Those are the most beautiful mittens! I got my first spinning wheel and named it after you! She is a bit of a Chaos Goblin herself. She is homemade and the wheel is from a bicycle rim. Thanks for inspiring me to spin my own yarn!
Hi Jente, I hope you and Dries are both OK xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️ Thankyou so much for sharing this video podcast. I love the Mittens and I'm sure your friend will too, lucky friend 😊😊 Happy Spinning and Knitting Special Fibre Friend 🎡🧶🥰🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Big Hugs to you both...Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐑🐑🐑
Was literally just saying to my neighbour the other day that I was thinking of making some colourwork mittens in this Norweigan shape and here you are dropping the perfect goth pattern for my little black heart
You are just such a breath of fresh air. I love your videos and your enthusiasm for spinning! Your mittens make me want to try colorwork again. My niece would love a pair. She loves everything Halloween.
Hello. I knitted this same pattern last summer accept I knitted one hand where the skull pattern was black and the other hand the skull pattern was white. You did a wonderful job! Happy Halloween!
Wow! I can't believe this pattern is free! Wooohooo! I'm thinking a cowl or scarf with this design hidden in it. Lucky friend you have cause your mitts are stunning.
u are so fun! i so enjoy all your videos! beautiful mittens. oh my goodness! your friend will love them so. we live with a cemetery in our back yard. The cemetery gave all of us some of their land. its fun to watch all that happens in the cemetery. Teens running thru in the night scared and yelling hurry to each other.🎃🕷🕸🍬🏚
I have been wanting to try out this pattern since I learned to do color work! So cute, I will be knitting these eventually. Mittens are a great way to use up an extra skein or two of yarn when you have garment leftovers or just leftovers in general! Ps. I am also currently knitting some skeleton gloves for myself with some handspun. I believe the pattern is called X-Ray gloves and I'm exited to see the finaly results! 💀😁
Those mittens are brilliant and you are an excellent knitter. I think I'd be rendered speechless with shock and awe (in a good way) if anyone made those mittens and then gave them to me.
My husband's birthday is ON Halloween....and he hates Halloween. I, on the other hand, am an August baby and LOVE halloween. I need to knit these for myself.
@@MijnWolden unfortunately at the moment I have four active projects and three intermittent projects. I can't add another unless I never want to finish anything 🤣
Not a Halloween person but those mittens are SPECTACULAR! They could convert me 😻 I couldn't believe it when I spotted the skulls on the thumbs, talk about committments!
Super Choice... Wow.. I can't believe it! I made these exact Deathflake mittens a couple years ago and I absolutely LOVE them.. I'd attach a pic of them if TH-cam allowed.. I just dug mine out yesterday to use for Halloween.. Thanks for the video!!
The mittens came out great, I love them. I have a friend who loves Halloween too, one year I made her an orange Christmas Stocking with a pumpkin on it so she could carry Halloween over into Christmas. As for me...I am Christmas all the way 😁
Beautiful mittens, your friend is very lucky! Fellow Belgian living in Flanders here: it’s interesting to hear about your Halloween experience because I have a different one: I have lived in Ghent for 10 years and we do get trick-or-treaters here, and as a child I lived in Brussels and I went trick-or-treating every year 😊
@@winterdoescrafts Ok, so apparently Nieuwjaarszingen being a thing really shows where I'm from. Accoring to wikipedia: only in the Kempen, Hageland and some parts of Limburg...
@@MijnWolden the only Nieuwjaar related tradition I grew up with was the "nieuwjaarsbrief" that we made in elementery school: a rhyming letter you were supposed to read out to your family members on NYE to wish them a happy new year. For driekoningen we ate a driekoningen taart (a sweet flacky pastry filled with almond paste and 1 "boon", a little ceramic statue). The person who got the piece of pastery with the hidden statue was king for the day and got to wear a paper crown. So interesting to see how much difference 100km makes!
Those are very cute!! I love Halloween, but I don't really do anything for it. I enjoy the aesthetics and spookiness year round. Halloween cups, bowls, and ceramic figures just stay out year round for me. I'm also the opposite with Haunted Houses/Corn Mazes. I absolutely love them. I once went through a corn maze twice because some girls were too scared to go themselves. I haven't gone in years and now I startle very easily, but I'm sure it would still be fun!
I once thought our regional soap opera was too scary... and I hated that my sister and dad LOVED the paranormal activity series. I also had a lot of nightmares as a kid. I'm just more cut out for wholesomeness I think :D
@MijnWolden There's always the cute bats, ghosts, etc to enjoy! My squishmallow bat Chester is cute and round! His scariest quality is how hard it is to resist squishing him.
"The rest of the Anglocised world over there." We're called CANADA, Jente. :P But anyways, those mittens are so great, and I'm sure your friend is going to LOVE them. Although I am most curious what's on your spinning wheel now!
I think, ya know, the British Isles count as part of the Anglicised world. South Africa is at least partly Anglicised. And there's Australia and New Zealand. US Halloween traditions may have grown out of Irish and/or Scottish Halloween traditions. The Irish hollowed out turnips, rather than pumpkins and put candles in them for Halloween.
My parents had a pigeon couple that built their nest with a hole in the bottom... Naturally, you know what happened when they laid their eggs 🫣 second year they filled the hole but built it so precariously that a gust of wind blew it out of the tree. Third time lucky and they managed to get to grips with their nest building 🤣 I hope your friend enjoys her mittens 👏
You haven't heard the Final Countdown until you hear the band in front of Buckingham Palace play it during the changing of the guard! I always love your musical choices.
Hello, Dear. I made a pair of Deathflake knee socks for my daughter about 5 years ago and she LOVES them! Then I made a doubleknit Deathflake scarf to match her socks and she LOVES that! Shall I make her a pair of Deathflake mittens? I LOVE your videos. You are just darling and you are an inspiration to all of us. Keep up the great work. We appreciate you! ❤
The mittens are so pretty, nice job! How do you handle long floats in eastern uncrossed, is it different? (I'm always on the hunt for float-catching-tips and tricks...)
I try to have floats no longer than 3 or 4 stitches wide, or I get anxiety about them. I weave my needle over or under the non-working colour to secure the working colour, if that made sense
@MijnWolden I totally get the anxiety. I think I get it, I will experiment some! I think it would work in continental too.. Thanks for the tip, and thanks for the video ☺
I hope your friend likes them! They are indeed pretty cute. We celebrate, but we celebrate both the festivity (though as neurospicy introverts with low social batteries and a kiddo who is now an adult, we don't participate as much) and the honoring-the-ancestors aspect. I'm curious, is there another time of the year in Belgium when children (or people in general) wear costumes?
Carnaval! Traditionally before Ash Wednesday, but now also takes up Lent. There are so many parades with carnaval, and everyone is dressed up, and people throw candy from the floats... a bit like Rio Carnival, but just not as sexy
@@MijnWolden It was really good! The ending really hit hard. As a privileged white passing trans man it's sometimes hard not to get caught up in assimilationist thinking. Got to remind myself of the struggle of others and the fight that still needs to be fought.
Here in Australia thank heavens Halloween is not really big it is like you said due to shops getting bigger but I haven’t heard of any Halloween party’s and only some kids go trick or treating we haven’t had any at our door for years now saying that some will turn up tonight.but adults certainly don’t dress up or have party’s, for us it is race time with the spring carnival for the horse races and the first Tuesday in November is the Melbourne cup the race the call as the one that stops a nation, so people are looking for their best clothes and have race party’s not all but that is what is pushed by the media beautiful outfits fantastic hats, and men also dress up in suits or theses days fancy suits. And everyone hopes the day is going to be warm often being Melbourne it can be cold and wet and muddy and here are the girls shivering in the light summer frocks, or it could be over 30c and they are dying of heat stroke, that is Melbourne for you
G'day from further north in Oz. I've only met kids trick or treating once. I'd not been feeling well & wasn't expecting them so I probably did a fairly good imitation of a hostile old crone. What I did hear about this morning was someone saying that they needed to go home and start making their favourite Halloween trick offering: chocolate coated Brussels Sprouts.
@@MijnWolden: "chocolate covered sprouts" A large part of me does think it's a waste of good chocolate. I like chocolate but it has to be good quality and I think people put it in too many things to cover up culinary shortcomings.
Halloween isnt really a thing in NZ. Some people want it to be but most just think it's another American Capitalist holiday. The other issue is that its usually day light savings by then so no one is out in the dark as we head into summer. Same problem with Christmas! Wanna see christmas lights? Got to go out at midnight
My sister, my grandmother, my daughter and my mother-in-law are all born in October and none of them are the slightest bit interested in Hallowe'en. Nice mittens though, I wonder how the Fair Isle pattern would translate to overshot? Edit... downloaded the pattern and yes, all the motifs are graphed. Take that hands that wont let me knit, I'll weave it instead.
No halloween here. It's Diwali but i also don't like fireworks especially as people here think its fun to throw them at people.i actually celebrate the Buddhist holidays way more nowadays as they have deeper meaning to mean. But i just finished off a hat while watching you for breakfast. Happy whatever day
I’m not sure why you think chainsaws at Halloween are a US thing … not so much here. As a Christian, we emphasize All Saints’ Day … or, like our Mexican neighbors, Dia de Muertos. LOVE your mittens! (particularly the thumbs)
Ohno, they're not. They're a Belgian thing. I don't know why, but each and every one of our Halloween walks has a chainsaw because that's funny or something
There's more designs than just the mittens on ravelry with the deathflake, and also just the deathflake chart itself. Let loose your creativity, I'd say :D
If you are my friend Chelsea: do not watch this until you have received your birthday gift 😅
Kiddo you make me smile,. Love, love, love the music you pick & the mittens are spectacular!😁💙💚💙
Those are the most beautiful mittens!
I got my first spinning wheel and named it after you! She is a bit of a Chaos Goblin herself. She is homemade and the wheel is from a bicycle rim. Thanks for inspiring me to spin my own yarn!
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They turned out great. Thanks for the inspiration!
What a cool handmade gift! I hope your friend loves them :)
Hi Jente, I hope you and Dries are both OK xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️
Thankyou so much for sharing this video podcast.
I love the Mittens and I'm sure your friend will too, lucky friend 😊😊
Happy Spinning and Knitting Special Fibre Friend 🎡🧶🥰🐑🥰
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love and Big Hugs to you both...Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐑🐑🐑
Your colorwork on those mittens is spectacular! Your friend will love them! ❤
Was literally just saying to my neighbour the other day that I was thinking of making some colourwork mittens in this Norweigan shape and here you are dropping the perfect goth pattern for my little black heart
You're welcome ;)
The gloves are stunning! And also thanks for the Belgium lore ❤
Love the mittens!
These are gorgeous! Lucky friend!
My grandson was born on Halloween! So yes, very exciting birthday parties indeed ❣️💙
❤Love them❤ They are gorgeous 😍
You are just such a breath of fresh air. I love your videos and your enthusiasm for spinning! Your mittens make me want to try colorwork again. My niece would love a pair. She loves everything Halloween.
I'm always finding myself drawn towards either colourwork or cables :)
Hello. I knitted this same pattern last summer accept I knitted one hand where the skull pattern was black and the other hand the skull pattern was white. You did a wonderful job! Happy Halloween!
That would also look really cool!
Those are so cool. Perfect for Halloween and Dios de la Muerta!
I'm a Christmas gal too, but my goodness, those mittens are super impressive! She is going to absolutely love them!
Wow! I can't believe this pattern is free! Wooohooo! I'm thinking a cowl or scarf with this design hidden in it. Lucky friend you have cause your mitts are stunning.
u are so fun! i so enjoy all your videos! beautiful mittens. oh my goodness! your friend will love them so. we live with a cemetery in our back yard. The cemetery gave all of us some of their land. its fun to watch all that happens in the cemetery. Teens running thru in the night scared and yelling hurry to each other.🎃🕷🕸🍬🏚
two handfuls of art 🤩
Those mittens are AWESOME!
I have been wanting to try out this pattern since I learned to do color work! So cute, I will be knitting these eventually. Mittens are a great way to use up an extra skein or two of yarn when you have garment leftovers or just leftovers in general!
Ps. I am also currently knitting some skeleton gloves for myself with some handspun. I believe the pattern is called X-Ray gloves and I'm exited to see the finaly results! 💀😁
Those were on the shortlist for a gift for my friend as well :D
I love the New Years eve tradition! We have the same here in Bergen (Norway) and areas surrounding,
Those mittens are brilliant and you are an excellent knitter. I think I'd be rendered speechless with shock and awe (in a good way) if anyone made those mittens and then gave them to me.
Let's see how my friend reacts tonight :D
My husband's birthday is ON Halloween....and he hates Halloween.
I, on the other hand, am an August baby and LOVE halloween.
I need to knit these for myself.
I have had these on my "to make" list for almost a year now! Beautiful job 😍
Maybe this is your sign to cast them on ;)
@@MijnWolden unfortunately at the moment I have four active projects and three intermittent projects. I can't add another unless I never want to finish anything 🤣
😂
Not a Halloween person but those mittens are SPECTACULAR! They could convert me 😻 I couldn't believe it when I spotted the skulls on the thumbs, talk about committments!
yeah, and that for a free pattern!
You could call them "committens."
Those are so dang cool!! What a lucky friend 😍
And now hoping they actually fit her
Super Choice... Wow.. I can't believe it! I made these exact Deathflake mittens a couple years ago and I absolutely LOVE them.. I'd attach a pic of them if TH-cam allowed.. I just dug mine out yesterday to use for Halloween.. Thanks for the video!!
Great patterns stand up to the test of time :D
Your friend is going to be so happy with those mittens!!
I hope she will, party is tonight :D
@@MijnWolden Have fun! And let us know what her reaction was!!
@@MijnWolden and? How was your friends reaction?
The mittens came out great, I love them. I have a friend who loves Halloween too, one year I made her an orange Christmas Stocking with a pumpkin on it so she could carry Halloween over into Christmas. As for me...I am Christmas all the way 😁
All year halloween, sounds like my friend too
Beautiful!!
Beautiful mittens, your friend is very lucky! Fellow Belgian living in Flanders here: it’s interesting to hear about your Halloween experience because I have a different one: I have lived in Ghent for 10 years and we do get trick-or-treaters here, and as a child I lived in Brussels and I went trick-or-treating every year 😊
I have lived mostly on the countryside in East-Brabant and now in Limburg... not really a thing here. Maybe it's a city vs. countryside thing?
@MijnWolden that's a good theory! Because the other trick-or-treat like festivities you mentioned are completely unknown to me 😅
@@winterdoescrafts No nieuwjaarszingen or driekoningenzingen? That would be a cultural shock for me if ever there was one...
@@winterdoescrafts Ok, so apparently Nieuwjaarszingen being a thing really shows where I'm from. Accoring to wikipedia: only in the Kempen, Hageland and some parts of Limburg...
@@MijnWolden the only Nieuwjaar related tradition I grew up with was the "nieuwjaarsbrief" that we made in elementery school: a rhyming letter you were supposed to read out to your family members on NYE to wish them a happy new year. For driekoningen we ate a driekoningen taart (a sweet flacky pastry filled with almond paste and 1 "boon", a little ceramic statue). The person who got the piece of pastery with the hidden statue was king for the day and got to wear a paper crown. So interesting to see how much difference 100km makes!
they turned out really good :) it was a good idea to flip one of the flakes!
The extra brainwork paid off :D
They look sooo cool!
Those are very cute!! I love Halloween, but I don't really do anything for it. I enjoy the aesthetics and spookiness year round. Halloween cups, bowls, and ceramic figures just stay out year round for me. I'm also the opposite with Haunted Houses/Corn Mazes. I absolutely love them. I once went through a corn maze twice because some girls were too scared to go themselves. I haven't gone in years and now I startle very easily, but I'm sure it would still be fun!
I once thought our regional soap opera was too scary... and I hated that my sister and dad LOVED the paranormal activity series. I also had a lot of nightmares as a kid. I'm just more cut out for wholesomeness I think :D
@MijnWolden There's always the cute bats, ghosts, etc to enjoy! My squishmallow bat Chester is cute and round! His scariest quality is how hard it is to resist squishing him.
"The rest of the Anglocised world over there." We're called CANADA, Jente. :P But anyways, those mittens are so great, and I'm sure your friend is going to LOVE them. Although I am most curious what's on your spinning wheel now!
Bahaha 😂 where up here in igloos.
I think, ya know, the British Isles count as part of the Anglicised world. South Africa is at least partly Anglicised. And there's Australia and New Zealand.
US Halloween traditions may have grown out of Irish and/or Scottish Halloween traditions. The Irish hollowed out turnips, rather than pumpkins and put candles in them for Halloween.
@@resourcedragon You bring up a fair point! I assumed she was primarily talking about North America, but Samhain traditions exist in lots of places.
I see how you could have gotten that idea, but I did in fact mean the British Isles as well haha
@ Oh! LOL my bad. I thought you were talking about North America. XD
My parents had a pigeon couple that built their nest with a hole in the bottom... Naturally, you know what happened when they laid their eggs 🫣 second year they filled the hole but built it so precariously that a gust of wind blew it out of the tree. Third time lucky and they managed to get to grips with their nest building 🤣
I hope your friend enjoys her mittens 👏
Someone give pigeons a nest building workshop!
If your friend doesn’t like them . . . I would 😂. Love the ratatouille song and yes, Christmas is my holiday of the year.
That's really halloweeny!
You haven't heard the Final Countdown until you hear the band in front of Buckingham Palace play it during the changing of the guard! I always love your musical choices.
I have seen the changing of the guard, but do not remember the final countdown...
@@MijnWolden This was before Brexit and I think the idea was that the band was Europe and the UK was part of Europe! It would be cruelly ironic now!
Who doesn't love colour-work mittens? I also have small goblin hands.
Well, I don't think my sisters wear theirs a lot... woops
Omg I too have tiny hands (my wedding band and is a size 4.) Goblin hand community unite!!
Hello, Dear. I made a pair of Deathflake knee socks for my daughter about 5 years ago and she LOVES them! Then I made a doubleknit Deathflake scarf to match her socks and she LOVES that! Shall I make her a pair of Deathflake mittens? I LOVE your videos. You are just darling and you are an inspiration to all of us. Keep up the great work. We appreciate you! ❤
If she still wears the socks and scarf it would be a great idea to finish the set :)
Agree! Maybe in time for Christmas. 😂 ❤
The mittens are so pretty, nice job! How do you handle long floats in eastern uncrossed, is it different? (I'm always on the hunt for float-catching-tips and tricks...)
I try to have floats no longer than 3 or 4 stitches wide, or I get anxiety about them. I weave my needle over or under the non-working colour to secure the working colour, if that made sense
@MijnWolden I totally get the anxiety. I think I get it, I will experiment some! I think it would work in continental too.. Thanks for the tip, and thanks for the video ☺
How do u get the ends not so pointy? Blocking?
I hope your friend likes them! They are indeed pretty cute. We celebrate, but we celebrate both the festivity (though as neurospicy introverts with low social batteries and a kiddo who is now an adult, we don't participate as much) and the honoring-the-ancestors aspect. I'm curious, is there another time of the year in Belgium when children (or people in general) wear costumes?
Carnaval! Traditionally before Ash Wednesday, but now also takes up Lent. There are so many parades with carnaval, and everyone is dressed up, and people throw candy from the floats... a bit like Rio Carnival, but just not as sexy
Ok, I just realized I never finished Caelans video! See you in a little more than 2 hours!
And they released another long one yesterday that I haven't seen!! I may need to push that one to tomorrow... I need to sleep too ya know?
I do recommend that one though. It was really tough at points, but sooooooo good.
@@MijnWolden It was really good! The ending really hit hard. As a privileged white passing trans man it's sometimes hard not to get caught up in assimilationist thinking. Got to remind myself of the struggle of others and the fight that still needs to be fought.
Here in Australia thank heavens Halloween is not really big it is like you said due to shops getting bigger but I haven’t heard of any Halloween party’s and only some kids go trick or treating we haven’t had any at our door for years now saying that some will turn up tonight.but adults certainly don’t dress up or have party’s, for us it is race time with the spring carnival for the horse races and the first Tuesday in November is the Melbourne cup the race the call as the one that stops a nation, so people are looking for their best clothes and have race party’s not all but that is what is pushed by the media beautiful outfits fantastic hats, and men also dress up in suits or theses days fancy suits. And everyone hopes the day is going to be warm often being Melbourne it can be cold and wet and muddy and here are the girls shivering in the light summer frocks, or it could be over 30c and they are dying of heat stroke, that is Melbourne for you
G'day from further north in Oz.
I've only met kids trick or treating once. I'd not been feeling well & wasn't expecting them so I probably did a fairly good imitation of a hostile old crone.
What I did hear about this morning was someone saying that they needed to go home and start making their favourite Halloween trick offering: chocolate coated Brussels Sprouts.
@ that’s nasty
chocolate covered sprouts... the thought alone...
It's a very commercial holiday more and more
@@MijnWolden: "chocolate covered sprouts" A large part of me does think it's a waste of good chocolate.
I like chocolate but it has to be good quality and I think people put it in too many things to cover up culinary shortcomings.
🙋me. I am also this person. October birthdays mandate a n obsession with spoopin’ season. Tis a law of the known and unknown worlds. 😅 ❤
apparently they do :D
Halloween isnt really a thing in NZ. Some people want it to be but most just think it's another American Capitalist holiday.
The other issue is that its usually day light savings by then so no one is out in the dark as we head into summer.
Same problem with Christmas! Wanna see christmas lights? Got to go out at midnight
My sister, my grandmother, my daughter and my mother-in-law are all born in October and none of them are the slightest bit interested in Hallowe'en. Nice mittens though, I wonder how the Fair Isle pattern would translate to overshot? Edit... downloaded the pattern and yes, all the motifs are graphed. Take that hands that wont let me knit, I'll weave it instead.
Yep, all graphed!
If you haven't watched Hbomberguy's videos, I highly recommend them for long (and chaos goblin-y) crafting sessions :)
Have heard of him (I mean, who hasn't), but have yet to give his videos a go :)
No halloween here. It's Diwali but i also don't like fireworks especially as people here think its fun to throw them at people.i actually celebrate the Buddhist holidays way more nowadays as they have deeper meaning to mean.
But i just finished off a hat while watching you for breakfast. Happy whatever day
I’m not sure why you think chainsaws at Halloween are a US thing … not so much here. As a Christian, we emphasize All Saints’ Day … or, like our Mexican neighbors, Dia de Muertos. LOVE your mittens! (particularly the thumbs)
Ohno, they're not. They're a Belgian thing. I don't know why, but each and every one of our Halloween walks has a chainsaw because that's funny or something
@ gotcha. I must have mis-heard you. That is rather odd … but we do have the Texas chainsaw massacre 🙄
These are stunning! I've tried doing some color work with Tunisian crochet recently, and I definitely need more practice!
There's more designs than just the mittens on ravelry with the deathflake, and also just the deathflake chart itself. Let loose your creativity, I'd say :D