Notes from a coat checker
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Comments (5)Time consuming, these may take as long as 18 months to germinate and will germinate erratically, meaning not all seedlings will appear at the same time. Surface sow then top pot with some grit, expose the seed pot to a range of temperatures by sowing outdoors in a cold frame. You can also alternate 12 weeks of moist cold in your refrigerator with 12 weeks at room temp, recycling until germination begins. Rock Garden Society adds this note - "dry storage of seed for 6 months is fatal, grow seedlings at cool temperature, leave in pot for 2 years". If you were looking for flowers sooner than 4 years from now, Brent and Becky's has the bulbs reasonably priced for Fall shipment (- as comparison, 3 blooming bulbs in a pot early this Spring were selling for $3.99 here when I bought two pots). I ordered a red flowering corydalis from them last Fall and was very pleased with my order - prompt, with healthy corms. Here is a link that might be useful: fritillaria meleagris bulbs...See Moreoilpainter, Help changing Adult Coat to a Child Coat.
Comments (8)Well here goes. Understand I haven't done this in a few years, and it's hard to explain without actually doing it, so bear with me. I mostly worked with wool coats too.It takes a lot of fudging too, because you are not working with a big piece of material First assess the coat. One with big pannels like just i or 2 backs and 2 fronts is best. Measure the pieces and find out how much material you have to work with. Then find a child's pattern that has similar or smaller lines and seams. For instance If your coat has a back seam the child's coat must too. If your coat has dropped shoulders the childs must too. Take apart the coat and mark the top somehow. I used a white thread loop in the seam allowance with an extra big knot on either the right or wrong side. I did this as I was taking each part apart. Note if there is any extra panels under the lining on the coat. Sometimes they have an extra panel in the back for extra warmth. Not exactly where this is so you can add it to the childs. Also note how the coat is put together.EG. is the collar sewn to the coat and lining separately. You needn't take out the buttonhole or facings. you may or may not use them in the childs coat. Likewise don't take apart the collar you may be able to cut it down for the childs. Do take apart the sleeves. At this point I always left the lining intact. Then I took all the pieces and and got them drycleaned. You could use the dry cleaning at coin laundries. When the pieces are clean you can sometimes see the way the straight grain lies, but if not lay go by center back and center front for the straight grain. Lay out your pattern pieces keeping the top at the top where the thread and the knot are. The pieces may be cut double but if it is heavy material you may want to cut them singly. Cut the back on the back and the front on the front, and the sleeves on the sleeves. Now this is not a hard and fast rule as long as you can get all the pieces on and the top always goes toward your thread you will be Ok. Once it is cut out follow the child's pattern and refer to your notes. If you have problems check back. I'll be around...See Morechoosing both hshg coating and lshg coating??
Comments (27)ranger, A bit of clarification... Cardinal currently has three versions of HSHG coatings - LoE-178, LoE-179, and LoE-180. LoE-178 and LoE-179 are being phased out and LoE-180 will be Cardinal's only HSHG offering in the very near future (I believe that 178 may no longer be available). LoE-180 has a SHGC of .69, a .24 U-value, and VT of 80% when used on surface 3 of a dual pane IGU (3mm glass). But keep in mind that these numbers are for glass only and they will be different when the glass is installed in a window system. The LoE-180 is a single-silver softcoat and as a softcoat it has to be installed between the lites of an IG - it cannot be exposed or it will corrode and fail. LoE2-270, LoE2-272, and LoE3-366 are also softcoats, but 270 and 272 are considered moderate solar heat gain and 366 is considered low solar heat gain. Coatings 270 and 272 have two layers of silver and 366 has three layers of silver in the coating. Notice a pattern here? LoE-180, 270, 272, and 366 have to be installed inside an IG to protect the coating. Recently Cardinal introduced LoE-I81 which is a hybrid between soft and hard coatings. It has softcoat performance but can be used in traditional hardcoat applications. LoE-I81 is designed to be used as a surface 4 coating. Surface 4 is the glass surface that you can touch inside your home. LoE-I81 is designed to be used in conjunction with a softcoat on IGU surface 2. In an IGU, in combination with (for example) LoE3-366 on surface 2, and with argon gas infill, the IG will have a .20 U-value. A .20 U-value is more indicative of triple pane performance with Low-E coatings on two surfaces than with a typical dual pane. The intent of I81 is to increase U-value performance in dual pane IGU's to near triple pane U-value performance levels. Using LoE-180 on surface 3 and I81 on surface 4 would be a dream for the combination of HSHG and low U-value, but that make up is not currently avaiable (technical challenges), so in order to have I81 on surface 4, surface 3 will not be coated. On your southern exposure, if you want the maximum solar heat gain available while still using a Low-E coating, then you want to use LoE-180 on surface 3. For the other windows in your home using LoE3-366 on surface 2 and I81 on surface 4 will result in the highest glass U-value performance numbers currently available in the industry. You can also specify LoE2-270 or 272, but the U-value will drop off a little bit when compared with LoE3-366. And one final point of clarification - Cardinal's Low-E nomenclature will tell you the number of layers of silver in the coating and the VT of the coating in an IG unit consisting of two layers of 3mm glass with one glass lite coated. So, LoE-180 has one layer of silver and 80% VT. LoE�-366 has three layers of silver and 66% VT. Also the "2" in LoE2 is really supposed to be LoE "squared" and the 3 in LoE3 is supposed to be "cubed", but THS doesn't allow superscripting....See MoreRedecorated continued on.. on a happier note
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