This week between Christmas and New Years is one of my favorite. Life seems slower, it is ok not to get caught up on everything on your to do list, you can spend the day reading or knitting.

Me? I sucessfully relocated my armholes on my corset, using an after thought pocket technique to pick up the stitches where I wanted the new armholes to be. I carefully undid the I cord bind off from the old armholes and then grafted the pieces together. Right now, I’m blocking the living daylights out of it, and will model it once I get the buttons on.

Rather than exchange gifts, Dave and I took each other out last night. We dropped the kids of with my parents, walked across the Boston Common to the Lowe’s Theatre for a late matinee of Casanova (not nearly as good as Brokeback Mountain - a movie I am still thinking about) followed by dinner at Petite Robert Bistro. This was an exceptional experience. The menu may appear a bit pricy to a non sprawlopolis resident (that beltway from Portsmouth, NH to Washington, DC where you can’t get a good dinner out for two for under $150) but for Boston, this is a great value for the best French food I’ve eaten outside of Paris. A trio of pates, a healthy salad with blu cheese, scallops for me, venison for DH, and crepes for dessert. Yummy.

And in book notes, one of the nicest things about marrying into DH’s family is that they are book people. DH and his family always gives me the best books for Christmas. This year was not exception.

Now on my bookshelf:

  • Little Women
  • Prep
  • The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
  • Birds Without Wings
  • Dyeing to Knit: How to Use–and Create Your Own–beautiful Hand-dyed Yarns

    Now that my needles are empty and my yarn stash minimized, I’m thinking about a trip to Circles in JP to ring in the new year with some new fiber. What is on your must knit list for 2006?