BUT her design implies that maybe those aren't her actual hands? Maybe those are gauntlets (and her legs appear to have boots incorporated into her design?)
She might have been discouraged from using the gauntlets for normal stuff, as it would be seen as an act of aggression akin to Jasper donning the helm.
As it stands... I don't think so, just because there's no concrete canon evidence just yet, but making weird robonoid stuff out of rocks and junk, I can totally see.
Eh... it's not so much envy as much as finding them much more convenient than levitating rods, and modeling everything she builds out of hands in an attempt to replicate it.
Like... that hand ship? Since it's shown to have artificial gravity that isn't really effected by the configuration of the ship could actually have quite a bit of applications.
I doubt it, still. She... can do a lot more with her levitating rods than others can do with their hands. She mostly just doesn't have palms?? But the hand is an INCREDIBLY useful shape anyway
I want to see Garnet punch that shark as the gems cross the DelawareThere's even been art of Peridot in a pink button-front shirt that said "Badgem" on the back