she told Slate. In just a few hours after the photo of the mittens went viral, Ellis had thousands of emails either requesting interviews with her or inquiring about how they too could get some mittens like “Bernie's.”Ellis says she was actually one of the last to know that Sanders wore the mittens, as she was teaching during the inauguration. “As soon as I was done with my remote teaching, I hopped in my car and drove home,” she said. “It was a huge blizzard yesterday up here in Vermont, so it took me forever.
As soon as I walked in the door, my partner was like, ‘You’re not going to believe this.’”That’s when she saw the camera zoom in on Sanders and the mittens she had made for him. “I was like, there he is, he’s wearing my mittens.