SPRING 2018 PLANTS

New list coming this week!- 
by May 30th. 

Some of the plants divided last fall 

are coming right along this spring.  

And I'm still adding more from divisions this past month. 

Please get in touch by email, blog comment, facebook, or phone if you are interested in any of these and arrange a time to come by. 

I'm not ready to schedule an organized plant sale. 

Top of the list are / WERE the Trillium 'Flore Pleno' --  Only nine available (THESE ARE ALL GONE NOW)-- one per please.

I have ONLY 4 quart size pots with a large division and they each have two stems coming up. 

Also there are only 5 quart pots with a single stem. 

ALL OF THEM HAVE BUDS AND ARE STARTING TO BLOOM. 

DO I NEED TO TAKE BIDS ON THESE? 😉

they are ready for planting now. 

Trillium 'Flore Pleno' with second stem coming up. 

The double Trilliums in my garden last year! 

Pictures of the other plants coming along well: 

(click on the caption green colored plant name to go to a link with more information about the plant, then click back arrow to get back to this page. )

1 quart, Hydrangea macrophylla 'Maculata' starts 

Ajuga incisa 'Frosted Jade'  3"starts

Ajuga incisa 'Frosted Jade' 

Dactylorhiza fuchsii - Spotted Marsh Orchid

Primula japonica starts -- Candelabra Primrose

Beesia deltophylla 1 gallon

4" Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' Black Mondo Grass

Phlomis russeliana 1 gal.

Geranium macrorrhizum 6" 

2 gal. Pachyphragma macrophyllum -sold

1 gal. Dicentra formosa, native western Bleeding heart

Hydrangea 'Lemon Zest' 2 gal.

Hydrangea veitchii 2 gal.

there are always lots of other plants around already potted, or even ready to be divided when you come by. 

10/2 TENCEL SCARF IN PROCESS

PLANNING A COWL FOR A FRIEND

Using 10/2 Tencel for warp this time. This is finer thread which I've used in weft before but not warp. So I have to plan the correct ends per inch at either 30 or 36. 
That will make a difference is how the slightly larger 8/2 tencel for weft will place in the weaving. 

10/2 Tencel dyed by Theresa Ruch of Portland
purchased at Seattle Weaver's Guild Sale and spied by my friend Tina when I posted on facebook. 

It has been difficult to get good pictures in true colors because of the dark daylight we have now.  But I need to try to see this objectively.

Hoping I can line up these colors on the board in colorpooled sections 

but the skein is certainly not in palindrome arrangement.

    wound the skein into a ball for easy warping while keeping the color progression above in mind.

Also important is the color placement of this hand dyed skein when it goes on the warping board. I hope to line of the colors in sections rather than in stripes. 
However so far it is not going as well as envisioned. The first 100 threads lined up really well, but then the colors shifted as the skein probably began to have a shorter length around at that point. 

The first section, closest to the towel, would be about the first 3 inches of the scarf. these colors lined up together well. 

After that the colors just went random and in narrow stripes.   

The planned weft will also be a somewhat verticle stripe, though in a curved pattern, 

So will that work?  

Time to ask the future owner. 

Decision time: whether to  remove the 200 threads in the portion with narrow stripes and re-do at a different length to see if the color position can change.  
But that risks too short of length for the hopefully two cowls planned.   I was hoping there would be enough warp length after the first double cowl 70" to be able to have some 30" left for a small single cowl instead of having yarn waste or just a small section of warp left to weave a small piece of fabric for an unknown use at trim or whatever.  
UPDATE: no need to re do the warp,  prospective owner is ok with the color line up.  -- So on to the loom ---

BUT FIRST--
CHANGING THE EPI IN THE REED
 AND  UH, OH, NOT ENOUGH HEDDLES! 

Resleying previous 8/2 tencel on the loom went easily on the 10 dent reed. It was changed to 3 per dent to get the 30 epi needed for 10/2 tencel.

but then  counting heddles revealed there were not enough heddles on certain shafts for the width of this project and the extra thread count of 30 ends per inch. 

So off came the shafts and I fortunately had on hand more flat steel heddles.  
Employed some help from the man cave to get these on smoothly. 

Now sucessfully tied on: 

 and ready to weave: 

Artificial light at night:

In daylight -- these are closer to the true colors:

UPDATED SCARF and HAT INVENTORY 02/05/18

100 % TENCEL COWL single mobius wrap. 
9.5" wide, 32" around

100% Tencel single twist cowl
7" wide, 32" around

SALE PENDING

JUST SOLD

Tencel cowl, colors of  hand dyed Moccasin with Spice and Straw

Merino and Tencel scarf

100% Tencel block weave Fibonacci sequence
Burgandy and Lavender

Lush thick Silk City Chenille

with random specialty yarn highlights

one sold, two available

Autumn colors chenille cowl with specialty highlights

sold, but another very similar coming soon
100% Tencel - choose cowl or Scarf
River of Lights warp.

100 % Tencel Drall Block weave

Autumn and Olive chenille

Fun Seahawk colors Cowl with sparkle and Saori technique weaving
fringe can be trimmed to specification

SOLD 100% Tencel

SOLD 100% Tencel Autumn ombre Cowl
in undultaing falling leaves twill

recycled Sari silks brooch

Burgandy cottons and Acrylics color shifts

Teal cottons and Acrylics color shifts

spring color cottons

100% Tencel  Drall block weave in Fibonacci sequence
in blueberry and hummingbird colors SOLD

100% Tencel block weave in Charcoal and Birch
in Fibonacci sequence SOLD

100% Tencel in  hand dyed Moccasin with Spice and Viel d'Or
SOLD

Charcoal Gray tussock and Blue new Zealand wool
felted hats

Black Tussock, Purple Tussock new Zealand Wool,
and  Burgandy Wool and alpaca felted hats

blue and green wool, rose Alpaca, and Turquoise alpaca
felted hats