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I’m going to start a new goal, have 2 items to show off each Tuesday. I won’t aim for it being FO’s, but I’ll aim for it being extreme progress on a project or new fun ones!

So here we go!

First off, is “My Tux” from Custom Knits, knit using Sundara Sock Yarn, Spiced. I love this color, it is so beautiful!

Here it is, almost done, needs finishing…

But wait, I have a big boo-boo I made, when I prepping for the pattern, knitting my swatch, and also measuring what size, I must of been tired cause I had cast on for a size too small 8( So, it fits, but doesn’t go around my boobies. My boobies have always been an issue for clothes, everything else is small, but the boobs aren’t. A good thing on one hand, but an annoyance when shopping for clothes or in this case knitting clothes. So I’m at a dilemma, do I frog? Seriously?!? I’m pratically done! I don’t know, I think I might take the frog plunge, but I’m hesitant. Will see, I wish I could wear it now 8( But it is lovely!

Ok onto my 2nd, this is my Elm Row knit with Scout’s Peach Pit, I love this color! I just fell in love with it at last year’s Scout’s Dye class.

I’ll take a photo shoot this weekend to honor it properly! I also have some new changes coming to my blog, I’m going to revamp the site soon, so stay tuned, and I have some new patterns I’ve written that I’d love to share!

Catch you all on hump day

~Rocky

My finished Swallowtail, knit in “Black Madera Fig” from the Madeline Tosh Society.

1st, what’s wrong with this picture?

I had finished the Swallowtail months ago, but had yet to block it, but thanks to Cheryl, I now was able to block it. Being that it had been a long time, I forgot how my Swallowtail was supposed to look, and blocked the right/left edges wrong. But I referred to the pattern and voila!

As I said prior, I started knitting the “Mina’s Tuxedo Vest” last week out of the Custom Knits book, which I absolutely love. I’ve already finished the back and am knitting the front shoulders. I’m enjoying the pattern, and the techniques.

Oooh! I was also able to bring my camera back to life!!! Yay! So, here you go, some early pics of my “Mina’s Tuxedo Vest”.

What yarn is that? Remember? It’s Sundara Yarn in one of my favorite colors “Spiced”.

You see where I picked up the Provisional Cast On? It is noticeable, but it’s a nice transition, this cast on is interesting, you cast on using any normal long-tail cast on, but you use your working yarn and scrap yarn. You loop the scrap yarn around your thumb and hold the working yarn on the index finger, and begin looping on your stitches. What you’ll see is your working yarn as the live stitches, and the scrap yarn will be the chain on the bottom. It was pretty cool to try, my first time using this method. It’s also a trip to unravel and pick up stitches because the stitches pick up a bit differently than other methods. I’m aiming at getting this done this week, and guess what?!? I have a super special friend who is the sweetest thing, she sent me blocking wires as a bday present last week! I’ll be soaking some of my knits to block and then I’ll share the FO love *-)

Thank you to Cheryl, you rock girl!

I’ll be back later this week!

~Rocky

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Originally uploaded by RockyMoreno

…my birthday. This will be my 2nd year celebrating my birthday where I’m a knitter. It seems like a very long time now that I’ve been knitting, but really it isn’t. I’ve moved on quite alot from knitting to dyeing to spinning to crocheting to designing.

I truly do love the art of knitting and all the wonderful people that have become my friends through knitting that I might not have met otherwise.

My day will be low key, nothing going on, one day I’ll really celebrate.

Tomorrow is my *Happy Day”, officially

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Oh yah, isn’t this cake awesome! I found a pic on the net, and I just fell in love with it.

Which do you want know about first? The Good or the Bad?

I’ll start with the Bad so you can leave the post with the Good

I’ve been offline for awhile because my first issue was that my camera stopped working. I kept messing with it trying to bring it back to life, but no luck. I still have some kind of hope that it will start working *fingers crossed*. I delayed posting because it’s sad to post a crappy picture when you put your heart into your knitting.

My second issue, which actually turned out to be a bigger issue than my camera ,my damn wireless router died on me. It is over 4 years old, about the lifespan of your average router. I had to order a new one, and I had requested overnight shipping over the phone about 6 p.m. about a week ago. I opted to pay the extra fee for shipping. Well, Friday came along and guess what, no router still. I contacted the company and come to find that because I ordered after 6 p.m., overnight shipping isn’t allowed and I get the standard shipping. I didn’t get charged the extra fee, but it meant I would be without internet that much longer.

After I realized I would be without internet longer that I anticipated, I actually tried to use the backup dialup # I have! UGH! So I get the backup dial up phone numbers and connect my modem and setup my connection, I had the nostalgic sense of my early years in IT *sigh*. I was prompted for my username and password, and I input my info, and BAM! Rejected!.. Seems I forgot my passsword for my main account, so no luck. After messing around with different passwords, I just called it quits, and figured I’d have to stick it out. Today I finally received my router, YAY!, and now I’m back, online and happy to be posting.

Onto my 3rd bad issue, so yesterday my husband and I got up early and went to get some coffee, and them came back to make breakfast. I made my usual, over easy eggs for my hubby, scrambled eggs for me and the kids, turkey bacon, and homemade potatoes with fresh tortillas and juice. We about ready to go eat breakfast when I went to check on something in my bedroom, I walked by my bathroom, and glanced at the floor, to my horror, there was water and cruddy overflow of gunk everywhere! It was coming out of the shower drain, and the toilet was empty! I went to the 2 other bathrooms, and sure enough the same damn thing. Well, after the initial shock, we called an emergency plumber who gave us a 45 minute window to be on-site, so we ate breakfast and waited.

Plumber got here and he asked us where’s our main line, and we looked everywhere, nothing. We got the landlord on the line, he doesn’t know, so he calls the former tenant, who coincidentally lives down the street. She was kind enough to walk over and show us where the main line was. I can’t thank her enough, because we would’ve never found it. It was literally hidden by overgrown grass on the front lawn, smack in the middle! The Plumber was like “That really should be in plain view, if we didn’t find it, the work would be way more complicated”. Phew! About 30 minutes later, everything was fixed. We finally got to use the bathroom! I had to run to Safeway to use the bathroom during all this, which was a pain. My work wasn’t over though, I had to sterilize and clean all 3 bathrooms now. I spent the next 2 hours with bleach, comet, scrubbers, and plastic gloves cleaning the showers and toilets, mopping, you name it. So that’s my 3rd!

Enough bad, now onto the good…

I have been getting some knitting done, and I’ve got these 3 wonderful FO’s here:

From left to right, clockwise

1) Swallowtail Shawl in Madeline Tosh Merino “Arabian Nights”

2) Elm Row Scarf in Scout’s Swag “Peach Pit”

3) Karma Tank in Sundara Yarn ” Brown Sugar Over Buttermilk”

All three are complete, and need blocking, but a blocking kit is one highly needed tool this knitter doesn’t have 8-( I’ll be investing on one in the next few weeks, until then, these 3 precious garments bring me happy FO eye candy and I can’t wait to show off the how they’ll transform. I’ve already tried on the Karma tank so many times, and it fits perfect. I can’t wait!

For the pictures I’m using my backup video camera, which doesn’t take the best picture but will just have to do until I can get a new camera.

Even though I have these 3 FO’s waiting in the wings, I went and started a new project, with more Sundara Yarn. I’m happy to be back online and hope I’m past the “3’s”, at least the bad ones!

Happy August everyone!