Spoils of the Season

My favorite gift this holiday season was a complete surprise! The Farmer traveled to Amsterdam last October. I jokingly suggested that he pick out something fabulous at Stephen & Penelope for me, thinking he could not be bothered to find the shop and pop in to look at yarn. I was mistaken:

Not only did he stop by, he engaged the staff to help him find a shop sample that he liked and then find the yarn and pattern for it! Apparently it took three staff members and an hour of time, to everyone's delight! I will enjoy knitting with these beautiful skeins.

Over the break, we spent a day in Washington DC looking at all the monuments. I had never done this activity in spite of many trips to the area. The afternoon was very enlightening.

In other news, we are celebrating New Years Eve with a cheese plate and chili on a very cold and snowy evening tonight. Here's wishing friends and family a wonderful new year. Happy knitting!

My WIP is Old Enough to Drive

I should be cleaning out my closet. But since I keep a sizeable amount of yarn in there, I keep tripping over a giant bag from the long-closed Stitches and Scones store in Westfield. It's filled with nine fisherman weight skeins of Beaverslide yarn from Wyoming and most of the body of a Elizabeth Zimmermann Tomten Jacket for The Farmer. I started it shortly after moving into my house in 2009. I have re-knit many of the stitches more than once as I try to do the stitch math to make the sweater fit properly. So I decided to try to finish in this break. Tomten is 16. It's time to finish the work and get this piece licensed to wear in public. And then organize the closet... Please wish me luck!