Knit in Public Day Gathering?

[evilawyer]

World Wide Knit in Public Day is, I understand, coming up on us soon here (between June 9 and 17). I was wondering if anyone who doesn't already have plans to knit publicly in the San Jose, CA (or South SF Bay area is perhaps more descriptive) might like to get together and knit in public someplace on maybe June 13th (maybe someplace where they have really good chai lattes)? It would be nice to meet folks.

Achievement Get: Baby Blanket!

[rainne]

Finished the baby blanket! I've spent the last three nights frantically working because my friend Meaghan (whose sister is having the baby) is going down to Georgia next week and will be able to take the blanket when she goes. Last night (well, this morning about 3 a.m.) I finally finished it. As a side note, my hands were swollen and painful when I finished, and the numb part of my left hand (unrelated) was worse. So I'm taking a couple of days off from knitting to let my anatomy get less angry.

That said, I've just washed and blocked the blanket and it is currently laid out on my kitchen counter with a fan blowing on it. ( pic! )

:D

The dimensions are approx. 29" wide by approx 42" tall.

ETA I forgot to mention: I was very surprised by how large this turned out to be. I measured it some while it was on the needles, and I thought I had about 27" of width - but I was measuring the side that turned out to be 42"! It's much bigger than I expected - but that's a good thing! :) I think I may actually write up a pattern for this.

These socks are the socks of pulling back...or not

[untonuggan]

So I finally, thanks to patelyne 's gentle nudging, finished the first sock of a pair I started for my mom at Christmas. It's a process. They are...well, first there was when I was picking up stitches for the gusset three times because for some reason there were different numbers (vastly different numbers) on each sides and then there were gaping holes...then I knit the foot of the sock two inches two long before the toe decrease. It needed a time out so it got one. I finally pulled it back (twice) and finished it and my mom is happy with it, so I started the second one right away so I would not get Second Sock Syndrome.

The only problem is that I sort of made up the pattern for the cuff and apparently I wrote it down wrong. I wrote down the wrong number of repeats of rows between the rows of mock cables, so while it is very similar the cables are...longer. Which is only really noticeable if you hold both socks up next to one another.

I did an Eye of Partridge Heel on the first one, and I think that might be why I had so much trouble with it. I'm thinking of trying to do the accidentally-on-purpose thing with this one and have both socks be similar but very slightly different...in for a penny in for a pound...and just do a different heel (such as a Slip Stitch Heel).

Of course I could just ask my mom, since she is getting the socks, but I am afraid that if she says I should pull back the 2" of beautiful cuff I have done then these socks will just sit in my knitting bag...for another three months or so of time out. So what say you, fearless knitters of dreamwidth? What would you do?

- Pull back and start over so they're identical
- Hide the sock til later
- Leave the cuff the way it is but do the same heel
- Make it look like it's on purpose and do the Slip Stitch Heel
- Ask the recipient (bearing in mind the adage: Don't ask the Prince, he may answer)

I think I know what I want just from writing this, but also, is it possible these socks are jinxed? Do I need to smudge the yarn or something?