A few people have expressed interest in the knit night I mentioned, so let me give some details--I should have perhaps been a bit more specific in yesterday's post. This group grew out of the Gay Bay group in Ravelry--it's been christened the EBLGBTSnB. You should pop in to the Ravelry group and introduce yourself, and join the Yahoo group we set up for a calendar.
So far we've met on two consecutive Tuesdays, at Cafe Gratitude on Shattuck in Berkeley and at Village Grounds in Berkeley. We're still trying out different places, but the criteria are that it be in the East Bay and accessible via BART. We're on for this coming Tuesday, but I'm not sure of the location.
It's a very mellow group, and anyone nice will be welcome. That said, there are other knit nights in the 'hood that don't self-identify as queer, so there are plenty of groups to check out and find one that's sympatico. Off the top of my head, I can think of these:
- Thursday nights at Village Grounds, which is just an informal thing organized by Sarah, one of the co-owners. She's extremely nice, especially to knitters. I haven't stopped in on Thursday yet out of sheer laziness.
- The longtime Berkeley stitch n' bitch meets on Wednesday nights at Caffe Trieste on San Pablo, starting at 6, I think. I've been to this a couple of times.
- Knit-One-One's regular knit-outs at Rudy's and Sweet Adeline's in Emeryville and South Berkeley.
- East Bay Knitters meets the first & third Mondays of the month at K2TOG, 1230 Solano (between Evelyn & Talbot) in Albany. There is a small charge for using the space that is shared among the attendees.
- Stash at the top of Solano has a knit night on Wednesdays.
Finally, RuTemple did something brilliant: She has been Google-mapping all the knit-outs people have posted to the Bay Area meetups forum on Ravelry. Even if you're not on Ravelry, you can see the map here.
