Knit Along Progress and Long Weekend Goings On

S and I are in the middle of a knit along. We're making these Herringbone Mittens. We started them Friday night from the confines of a quaint little coffee shop in Harvard Square on Friday night. This will be news to S, but I have actually restarted the mittens once since then. I thought it was odd that what the author calls the main color is not what's used for the ribbing of the cuff. I wanted navy blue there and it was green, so I'm now calling green the main color and navy blue is the contrasting color. The chart is uber difficult to follow but I've finally found a good way to keep track of where I am.

Of course, I'm also working on my sweater, Morgan's sweater, and the blanket at the same time.

This is the first post since Thanksgiving so I guess I should share a little about that. We successfully timed the entire dinner perfectly. The turkey was oddly dry in parts and very moist in other parts. We wonder if it's because it was free range...who knows. I attempted to make my own dinner rolls but they turned out more like biscuits. I think I have to work on my kneading techniques. They were good nonetheless. In addition, we had cornbread stuffing and a gouda mashed potato casserole. The last two were so so...I'm not sure we would make those again. For dessert, I made a pumpkin cake with caramel cream cheese frosting but I can't really taste the caramel which is a bummer because that was a pain in the butt to make. That was the first thing I've tried making from Food and Wine....hmmm..

Last night we went to the holiday tree lighting in Cambridge.
It was nice, 1/20 of the crowd that goes downtown for the Boston tree lighting. It seemed somewhat poorly organized though, they had a gospel choir singing. Well, that's what they were billed as but it was three guys I think. You would think they would be singing Christmas carols but it was mostly gospel songs with a smattering of Christmas songs thrown in. On the plus side, they were serving apple cider and hot chocolate...it was chilly!

Afterwards, we went to Crate and Barrel to buy our Christmas cards and see if they had anything we would want if we started a registry. We found two different kinds of silverware that we liked but that was about it. We're not even entirely sure we're going to register...it seems silly when your guest list is only 30 long.

This morning we tried Harvest for brunch. It had really nice ambience. The food was good, I'm just not sure it was worth $33 for brunch but I would try it for dinner. They had a nice courtyard which their dining room encompassed and they had a lit Christmas tree outside; the inside was very festive too. My biggest complaint was that there were 6 vents that went between pumping freezing cold air and nice cozy air in about five minute increments and we were right in it's pathway.

The rest of the day was spent painting, studying, and knitting....ugh, back to work tomorrow after four days off. Cruel!!!!