An Afternoon in Oakland

On Monday, I popped down to the Bay Area to spend a little time with Fiberly Friend, Diane. We started with lunch at Caffe 817, a nice little cafe in downtown Oakland.

Next it was to Piedmont Fabrics. Diane had been meaning to visit the shop earlier; I guess that’s why I really flew down. Maybe not. There were some lovely fabrics, including some Liberty cottons. In Lucky magazine, Diane saw a man-tailored shirt in Liberty cotton for $300. Aren’t we lucky that we can sew? We each took some home to make our own shirts for considerably less than $300. Diane suggested we see who gets her fabric made up first. Ha! That will be Diane, I’m sure.

We spied Piedmont Yarn & Apparel as we were looking for fabrics, so did a quick stop there. They had some usual and unusual yarns, including locally dyed yarns, one of which came home with me. It’s fingering weight superwash merino.

Our next stop was for a cookie break at Sweet Adeline Bakeshop. Good oatmeal cookie, but I still like mine better.

Our time was running short, but as fate would have it, I got an email that my flight was running 25 minutes late, so we had time for one more stop.

Now one could got to Berkeley and spend the day looking at everything in Lacis. Instead we spent a half hour and I come home with two cool little notions for my knitting tools bag—a small maginifying glass, since I don’t always have cheaters with me, and a neat little yarn cutter.

The day went by too quickly and to the airport we went. Fortunately OAK isn’t too busy in the early evening, and we able to prevail on the security guy to take our picture.

Good day spent with a good friend.