Knitters are everywhere

Case in point: This is my new REI colleague, Antonia, happily knitting away in the break room. We quickly realized during training – she was training me – that not only were we fellow knitters but that we had actually bumped into each other at Artfibers recently, when she was on a field trip with the Kensington Knitting Guild (first Monday of every month I think).

This area in West Berkeley has other knitting venues. Case in point:

This is the entry to ActivSpace which is also the entry to A Verb for Keeping Warm. Yeah I know, it looks too warm to knit and it is! I’m still getting used to the weather and the relentless sunshine and seriously wondering if it will ever get cold enough to knit. *sigh*

The entry was guarded by a very mellow poodle named Roscoe. Dogs are everywhere too.

What you should know is that A Verb for Keeping Warm is only open on certain days those being Thursday, Friday and Saturday – that’s for the brick and mortar site, a lovely little shop with heavenly fibers hanging everywhere. I came here with a specific mission in mind and it wasn’t fiber – sorry!

They also have a lovely dog named Cleo, and although this is not the best photo, I post it knowing that a certain someone will get a big kick out of it.

And then there is Michael, yet another local knitter, which brings me to my mission. I read on the Panopticon‘s blog about a sock pattern called Oliver by Marlowe Crawford, available at A Verb for Keeping Warm and I simply had to rush right out and buy it immediately. I mean I *never* buy patterns but I had to have this one. I’m so easily swayed by the knitting blogosphere it isn’t even funny. Already I have plans to knit 198 yds. of Heaven by Christy Verity. When? No idea. But I will.

Michael was nice enough to hold up a finished Oliver sock which claims to be one of the best fitting handmade socks in the…universe? We shall see. Hopefully this sock can help me recapture my sock mojo…or not. I’m having a hard time concentrating these days. Anyone else?