I live in a very different climate, but I have much the same experiences I read about here. I mostly have mildew on newly planted roses, next year there are hardly any trace of it. It seams to be the nature of conditions around her. How we water the roses might be very important. Drip irrigation often only waters the top 4 inches and roses have deep roots compared to grass and some other plants. Depending on variety, rootstock and type of soil they often go four feet down in to the ground if possible. That is probably why we get the advice to water generously every other week and not just a bit every day (newly planted is different). I have a few roses in pots and when I had them under a cantilever roof in the garden they milldewed something horrible. I had this problem for years. As soon as I placed them under open sky they stayed healthy. I watered every day so that was not the problem. I once heard an old gardener come with the advice to let the sprinkler go for about 30 every other morning to wash of anything that might get stuck to the rose leafs. Apparently this washed away any sticky sugary resins and mildew spores and prevented them from getting a foothold. This workes on mildew only and not black spot. I live in an area with lots of rain, and mildew is usually not a problem. I only came to remember this advice when I discovered my roses only get mildew under the cantilever roof. If you feed the roses a lot they are more prone to mildew too. In pots it is very easy to have some fertilizer in the water every time. Give them fertilizer only every third week or and see what happens, and something with at least the same amount of kalium as nitrogen. Good luck with your roses

I print several designs to one sheet of overhead transparency made for my type of printer. The plastic sheets aren't cheap, but since I only do it once in a while it makes thing easier and a single package lasts me a very long time. If you have an inkjet printer you have to wait several minutes for the sheets to dry (the ink WILL get on fabric otherwise) but laser printer sheets are ready when they come out.

I really like paper piecing and have use all the above papers at some time. My favorite is the cheapest copier paper I can find. Like Teresa said I don't see why you would have to see throught it but even copier paper is seen through if held to the light. I fold every line before I start. This gives me a visual on the side for the fabric and helps in the removal of the paper when it is finished. I also use very small stitches. Cathy(woodenzoo), although I have a roll of the pattern tracing paper I have not actually tried it. I think however it would be especially good if I wanted several of the same pattern and sewed through a stack with a needle only technique which someone mentioned above. I have used regular tracing paper that comes in a pad but my experience is when I press it with the iron on each seam it becomes brittle and sometimes comes off the fabris before I'm ready. I,too, think you paid a lot for the paper. PP is so much fun don't let paper be a reason not to do it. At that price I'd be reluctant to do much. Just my opinion. Sally

Here are mine. Mine are filler pullouts - no cabinet walls. Yours appear to be actual cabinets. (Filler pullouts use the walls of the adjacent cabinets as walls - this gives you more usable space, the space walls would have taken up.) As with mine, your shelves appear to be fixed (cannot be adjusted). .