I shot these with only daylight, indirect. Keep in mind they are all much BRIGHTER.

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Yarn combos to select

1. Casablanca and Toconao merino. The Casablanca is rainbow, and would go with any of the solid color yarns I have.  I searched first for a royal blue, but found I didn't have any. Hmmm.

2. Chirimen and a lovely silk/merino mix. Unfortunately, the purple-ness of these two yarns doesn't come up in the photograph, but they are a nice medium purple.  Chirimen is 60% Cotton, 24% Silk, 16% Wool

3.  Boku  95% Wool, 5% Silk and Merino Style. Again, the magenta here doesn't show up correctly, and doesn't look like it matches the variegated yarn, but in reality it is great together.

4. Ice Merino and Toconao merino, subtle blues and greens, on the gray side.

 5. Boku and Swish merino. Boku is 95% Wool, 5% Silk

 6. Casablanca (59% Wool, 24% Silk, 17% Mohair) and Merino Style. 

 7. Cascade Merino, and Casablanca. This is a different colorway than the one above, with a few tans and grays in the mix. 

8. Toconao and Casablanca. Again, the photo fibs, with the Toconao more teal green in real life and matches the greens in the Casablanca.

Garden Diary

In order to remember where and what I planted I have taken shots and labeled each plant with an initial

April 24, 2019. Poppies Pizzicato and Royal Wedding, hardy geraniums, dianthus, yarrow, lupins.

lupin bed

? Several volunteers allowed to grow. no doubt related to the 4 o'clock seeds I tossed out last season.

 Gallardia and foxgloves, fingers crossed they return

Gallardia 

 coneflowers or echinacea, with new plants. Returning calla lily, C

 coneflowers next to lilies.

 Baptisia, gallardia and shasta bed with double decker coneflower off to the left E. plus hydrangeas, h.

 Caesar's Brother, blue bedder salvia, heuchera, gallardia hydrangea

 hydrangea, heuchera, iris, salvia and that volunteer mystery plant

 several upstarts assumed to be black and blue salvia, reseeded?

 keeping an eye on this sprouted salvia, black and blue, one of which is at the base of baptisia, and another came up right at the edge, left of picture. The root is central but perhaps they spread?

 new heuchera

 six salvia in front

 returning and new salvias, hosta in back, with new heuchera

 

 slow sprouting peony in the center

New knits

 Tunic made from Noro Silk Garden and hand dyed 60%silk and 40% merino wool.
31 inches long and 50 at the hip with 48 at the bust

All merino wools, mother of pearl buttons, 25" long and 46" at the bust and hip.

 

Malabrigo Rastita and Extra fine merino wools, 28" long and 48" at the bust and hip.

 

Noro Silk Garden and Malabrigo Rios. 26" long and 50" at the bust and hip.