Kj's mittens (a walk through three Scandinavian winters)

This week I was gifted a beautiful pair of mittens! My friend and 'former supervisor' Kj knitted them for me. I have wanted to have something green for son long and she just hit the mark! I can't take any credit for the color scheme other than I asked for them to be green. Here is a picture of them:





Kj explained that she has made this pattern three times. The first time was in 1978, for a particularly cold winter (they hit -42C), those are the red mittens in the pictures. The second time she made them in blue for a winter circa 1995 and the third time in green for me, in 2012. Aren't they lovely?

And a picture of all three pairs together. I think the green ones are the prettiest pair, but I might be biased ;)