50th birthday is a big one, no? Peter threw a big dinner party at Raku to celebrate. We took over the entire restaurant for the evening. By the way, I mentioned Raku on my blog before. A Japanese/Korean style restaurant. Their block pork, black cod, lotus roots, grilled liver are very very good. Oh, and the Korean style pancake, YUM. But for Peter’s dinner the owner/chef made new dishes not on the usual menu. Delicious. Everyone was very happy.
Knitting done. Just need a wet blocking to straighten things out. Can you see the seam? No, those six rows of visibly different stitches are not seams. They are wraps that were purposely knitted to be visible. Nice decorative element, I think.
I am almost done with the Easy Head Hugger. There’s only the grafting to do. The way that the hat is constructed, you end up with two sides of the hat that you either sew or graft together. I didn’t even consider sewing because grafting would be seamless (usually, depending on the skill.) I fully intended to finish it last night. I sat down, started grafting and immediately realized that it was a technique that was unlike anything I’d done before. One side had live stitches on the needle. The other side had provisional cast-on with a row of the pattern knitted. I had to walk away and visualize the process in my head first. It also required that I review how knit and purl stitches were formed. I truly enjoyed the exercise, and think that I can finish the hat tonight. Yippee! I also know that I will use this knowledge for lace knitting. Glad that I am able to try it out on a hat first instead of a big, complicated lace project. 
Our Jill P. sure lives an exciting life! She is now part of a music group, Krandon. Check out their sound:
They will be playing at Molly Malone’s every Wednesday in February, 8:00 pm sharp. Will you be in the area? Join the fun!
I got a rushed project on Sunday, so I stayed in most of the day while CB and Sven went out to lunch and to see the Hollywood sign. No pictures to show for that. But I did join them for dinner at La Serenata. I am throwing in some funny pics of Sven to make up for lack of photos for this post. hehehe
http://www.laserenataonline.com/
We usually go to the West L.A. location. I actually liked the one in Downtown L.A. better. The building was gorgeous. A completely different atmosphere. I think the food was better, too!
10:09 am, CB just took Sven to the airport. It will be CB’s turn to travel and see Sven in Frankfurt next month.
