a new orchid and decided on colors for next sweater

While in Duvall, Kate (DDIL) and i took a little retail therapy trip to Woodenville to check out hanna anderson, OshKosh, and my favorite place, Molbach's nursery. the first place i always head for is the sale plant corner because they usually have some
orchids at 50% to 70% Off and i've always found one or two that looked healthy and usually still blooming. i was not
disappointed... found this one with one pretty bloom left on it. something i havent seen on other orchids i've bought is little
bulblet or pod things where the blooms have dropped, and a few of these have roots growing from them. i think i'll carefully
remove a couple of them and see if they will grow on their own. if anyone has any ideas whether this will work, please let me
know! i am still very much in the learning stage of orchid growing and am quite pleased that they've all lived so far!


The sweater project has moved past the just thinking about and looking through books for charts. I recently dyed some
superwash merino/tencel and realized that these are the colors i've been seeing in my mind for the design panel front and
back, which will be handspun wool/silk and/or maybe some cashmere/silk plied with wool/silk. i found a really pretty
commercial wool/silk (dont remember the name, but know where it is in the shop!!) that i want to use for the other parts of the sweater. may also use a soft mauve-y color in it. hope to dye the fiber tomorrow and start spinning it over the weekend.
stay tuned....