Late last week this came,
courtesy of Stella. Just when I was thinking about making fingerless gloves with self-striping sock yarn! Perfect timing. Thanks, Stella!
And on Saturday I headed over to Oakland to hang out with Rachael and lots of other knitters at the Temescal Cafe. I ran into Christine, and Celia, and Jeni and Becky--and met several new people. I missed seeing Janine, though, who is home recuperating from her surgery. And I thought I recognized Nancy Roberts from Janine's post about dying machine-knit yarn. She was knitting directly from a piece of knit fabric, and the colors were very pretty.
I took some mediocre photos, but in my own defense, it was pretty hard to get the whole huge group into a shot, since it occupied fully half of the cafe. 
In the foreground: Rachael, part of Jeni, and Becky's knitting bag. Toward the middle: Christine's pink socks in progress. Much sock knitting was going on.
Here's the eastern end of the group, where most of the kids were congregated (there's a stroller in there somewhere), and also happened to be a largely South Bay contingent.
The view from the far western end of the row (hi, Celia!). I'm sorry that I didn't get everyone in the shot--my shot-composing skills aren't the best.
