Hey everyone, welcome to today's day trading recap. Today is Wednesday, January 27th.  You should have received an email to sign up, save your spot, make sure you're there live. It's gonna be a great event. And we got some goodies to give out if you're there live. All right, so let's check out the day trades for the day. Only one Mighty 90 and a little scratch in Disney. This one went against us and when it got down, it gave us a couple of favorable bars. We just got out for basically a scratch for 20 bucks. On the runner front went three for three, excuse me, three and three, three out of six.   So let's show you what happened here. Let's start with Disney on the Mighty 90 trade. Let me expand this so you can see it a little better here. So in Disney, it had this initial flush here and on this bounce got a little bit of volume here. And so we got short right up here near this pivot. Started to roll over, I was a tick away from getting out of half. My contracts down here just didn't quite touch it, pushed up on me, held, held, held. When it came down and gave us these two red bars we just got out right here for a little scratch. Let's see, onto the runners starting with Apple. Apple, this was a losing trade. We had this situation where Apple initially flushed lower in a negative territory, bounced all the way back up, positive started consolidating in positive territory right near the high of the day. We got long about right here and we're looking for a continuation higher. Never happened, just flushed down.  Airbnb traded a lot of what I call kind of second or third tier type stocks today, but as you saw, there's only one Mighty 90. We missed a big one in Roku, but it really wasn't a lot of Mighty 90 opportunities. So we ended up taking a lot of runners in some of these stocks that aren't my favorite to trade but some of them worked out, some of them like DoorDash did not, which I'll show you. But here's one that did work out, Airbnb plus 550 on this trade. So had this big volume spike right here. So we're waiting for a little pullback, got long right here. Nice push, got out of half of it here and then as it pushed up, pushed up, pushed up ended up getting out of the rest right here for a nice profit in Airbnb. Let's go to DoorDash. This was our nemesis today. And this was honestly, this was a sloppy setup. I, you know, obviously kind of notice it in hindsight. Donut doesn't always, when you're in the heat of battle, entering and closing trades, you know, you gotta think quick and make quick decisions. And this was really, I would classify it as a poor decision on my part. But had this big volume spike here. So we were looking for a pullback to get long. Now what happened is we got another big volume spike on the downside. And so that really should have canceled it out. We shouldn't have probably entered. But anyway, we got in and just think, just bled, bled, bled, bled, bled.   I only got in with one contract here and then another one right here. So it was super small, but it's still accumulated to a $920 loss. Cause the options A are pretty expensive and B that's a pretty sizable move. Once we got a little bit of a bounce right here, I just closed out and took that loss. Obviously, you can see what happened afterwards. This thing popped higher. I could have got out for a break even on the trade or pretty close. Some of the folks in the live stream did hold on and benefited from that. Some came out with a positive P&L. But anyway, it took a loss for me. And the other thing about DoorDash is, you know, just recently IPO'd, the market makers are still trying to find the price in there, so the options are pretty wide. Not as liquid as I usually trade. I think this was a little bit forced because there weren't a lot of opportunities available and this thing was really moving. So I was looking for a potential and that is a nice move with a nice volume spike. So a lot of times you will get that continuation, but like I said, it should have been kind of canceled out with that one there. And we'll clarify exactly what that means on the runner class tomorrow. So make sure you're there. We'll talk about these setups. Let's see, next, Neo, another nice winner in Neo. So in this one, I mean, look at this. Here's the first volume bar, which is typically the highest of the day a lot of times. And then here's the second volume bar, just massive. So we were looking for a pullback to get long.  We were pretty close to just bailing when it got down here, gave it time. You don't want to bail too early. And then it started to bounce. And then it bounced some more and then it bounced some more and we got out for a nice profit of 5.27. I held my last little like one or two contracts. I was trying to get an exit up here at this pivot. Never quite got there when it started to roll over and ended up closing out the last piece, but still had a nice winner of plus 5.27. Nicola plus 4.70 on this one. Another nice runner, big pushup, big volume bar here, waited for a pullback, got long and rode this thing up to about here or here. I think either here or here, I got it in my last ones. Obviously there's a lot more meat on that bone. I held on, I was either gonna hold on to a piece of Nicola or a piece of Neo, both are EV vehicle stocks, obviously. Clearly Nicola would have been the one to hold on to, but you don't know that in advance. So still booked a nice winner plus 4.70. And then lastly, Tarjay, we don't trade target too much, but looked like a good potential runner opportunity in target on this initial flush down. We were waiting for a bounce, waiting for a bounce, waiting for a bounce to get short. Finally got in right here, got a little bit of a roll over and got out a half but actually I got out of a third of my position. I was looking for more to get at and it just never did that, it's pushed up. And so I just cut out quick, took a small loss of 115. So plus 4.12 on the day, so not too shabby, third green day this week in a row. So we'll take that. Look forward to seeing you guys tomorrow. We'll be streaming live Thursday and Friday. So look forward to seeing you then, cheers.


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Hey guys, Realistic Gaming here. Today we're going to be continuing off the Tide scary stories because we didn't get to finish them last time and I'm here with Twitter. Say hi, Twitter. There you go. And I'm here with Chrissy Rose as you can see. So let's begin these scary stories. Okay, so last time we left off. We did that one. Okay, we did that one, man. Golden Baby, Granny Speed. Oh man, I think they added new stories. Okay, so we have to continue this one off. Oh, they did add new stories. Wow, this is awesome, man. Okay, so let's just start off with... We didn't do the Golden Baby or Granny Speed, so let's go with Granny Speed. Okay, we're for you now. When we head back home. No thanks, we're having fun. Oh god, so these guys are just cruising. Are you doing a wheelie?  Look at this guy. Nice hat, man. Okay, so we go over here. I don't feel so good. Okay, that's not good because bro, you're driving a motorcycle. Oh, what? Where did this guy even come from? Oh god, where did she even come from? She just appeared. I don't know where. Oh man, okay. What the heck? He's just like, hey, what's going on back there, man?  Leave them alone. Shush, get out of here. She's like upside down. That is crazy, man. Hey, Jade got something on her side, man. Okay, hold on. We are being chased. Go, go, go. Okay. Oh man, this dude is like, I mean, this lady is like, like, how is that even possible to do? It's like some Matrix stuff. No, I'm just getting shot at. I don't know if you guys know the Matrix, but you guys can watch it. Hurry up, hurry up. Oh no, she's gaining on them, guys. Bro, you better speed up because she is right behind you. Like, literally. Poor dudes, man. Look at this guy. Look at his face. You can't really tell what his expression because he has that mask on. Hey, we saw a firebird. Okay, whoa. Oh no. Dude, she made them crash. That is not cool, you old creepy lady. Oh man, it's not cool. Like, they were just minding their own business, riding their motorcycle. They were just trying to have some fun, and then she just came out of nowhere. What? Why are we up here? Get back down. I know you're glitching. Wait, how do we go back down? We glitched out of the map for some reason. Oh god. Okay, there you go. Here we are. Okay, so let's continue down with the other stories. Oh, time to sit here with us, too. I don't think he saw me respawn. Hey, let's go. Let's go, man. Look at crystal roses right here. Come on, let's go, guys, you wreck. Okay, so now, let's continue off with Golden Baby. Does it look like a baby? Okay, so let's just go in here. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Oh no, this guy is up to no good. Seems like he's breaking it. Oh, look, the Golden Baby's right here. Scary, doesn't he? But we don't know his true form yet. Wow, look at that. Oh no, he's so... He definitely broke in here to try to steal some valuable stuff from this place. Okay, it's gold. Yeah, it's about gold, man. You'll be very rich if you find one of those. Okay. Oh, he noticed the baby... What? The baby turned towards his direction. He noticed him looking at him, too. He's like... Okay, wait. Oh, dude. What? Why is there two now? There's two babies. Oh, that doesn't sound good. You see, guys, you do bad things, dude. Okay, so this fight is continuing on from the last scary stories. If that guy didn't see it, make sure to check it out. It's Ty's scary... Roblox Ty's scary stories. Oh, man, that dude looks crazy. Okay. Man, these guys are fighting. We're gonna go see the rest of the fight right now. Thanks for helping me. Why is he helping him? It's like the boss of all this. The main evil lady that controls everything around here. That's it? Okay, so now we're gonna go continue the fight. I don't know if you guys remember last time we saw a fight going on between these two. And the fight actually continues off, so let's go check it out. And that's the next story we're about to go to. I'm right here, boy. Okay, look. You see the gold battle. So that's the one continuing off the other one where the friends got lost in the woods and they got turned into a demon. Over here. Okay. Try me. Okay, these guys are still going at it, man. This is gonna be an intense battle between these... Oh, God. Between these both demons or whatever they are. Oh, man, they're flying at each other. He grabbed her. Okay. What's going on? Oh, she kicked him in the face. Didn't fight again? Yeah. Oh, how did he upside down? What? Okay, now they're up here. Okay, now it seems like he grabbed her by the leg. You see, like, that's the guy from last time. Oh, man.  Man, she keeps getting those kicks in the face. Oh, okay. So now that they burst it in, you know how we just seen them in the previous story and it continues on. You see, now we're back to the other story. So it kind of continues off into the Golden Baby story. Okay. We were just that. This is like a deja vu, man. You guys don't know what that is.  They fight forever. Like, they don't give up. Jesus. Golden Baby is down. Wow, she took down the Golden Baby. She must be strong. Look at this. Oh, no. He threw her across. She's flying. Okay, now it seems like they're going to take the battle out somewhere else. RG, yeah. What's up, dude? Oh, no. So they're back outside in the woods. Let's see where this battle... Oh, my God. He punched her like... Like... She got punched like 20 times in a second. The story we continued, like the first story. Now with the giant guy, the gen I think that was what it's called. My God. Where are these guys going to stop fighting?  Hey, let's not talk lies to you. Do not say that word. You evil man. My God, that guy looks creepy. Okay, well, let's reset. Hello. Okay, so I accidentally left the game instead of pressing reset. That's why we're the... Those two were going at it. And it seemed like the new guy wanted to fight. That was a crazy battle, man. Alright, so let's see what other stories we have here. Okay, this says... What does that say? The other ghoul. Uh-oh. How many ghouls are there, man? There's so many of them. They're my friends, but they died. Okay, so these stories seem to continue off. They started like... They have to read them in order, you know? But they should have a number 1, 2, 3 so we could know what order. Okay, uh, they killed by the ghoul called Tide Ghoul. Oh, so he's reporting... She's reporting the Tide Ghoul to the cops. But it seems...  Wait, does this... Tide Ghoul? Oh, the myth. It's not real. Okay, so the cops didn't believe him. He's like, boy, that's of his fake. But, hey, we started with our own eyes, too. Okay, beware over there. What? Come on. Don't be trust. Whatever that means. Look at what the... Oh! Whoa! Ah! What is that? Nothing just blew up the wall. Just trying to get out of all this stuff and it just seems to be chasing after him. Oh, no! What the heck? I'm taking you right now. This escalated very quick. Like, he came to get help and then this... the new Tide Ghoul ended up finding this guy and now he's chasing him. Okay, got it. Ha, ha, ha. Dude, he's pulling out his eyeball. Trying to run for his life, poor guy. This cop is just frozen. He's like shocked. Doesn't even know what's... He doesn't know what's going on. Trying to see what happened to them. I can't stop. What happened here? What in the world is going on here, guys? Okay, yeah. You can't escape me. Oh, no, he's still running. Oh, man. Dude, that guy's quick. Getting closer to him. What? How did she end up here? I think they're going to fight each other now. He kicked her.  Star, he escaped. Where did Granny's speed go? Oh, no. Hey, that's good. He got away, man. But Granny's speed decided to come in the picture when she wasn't even invited. She just barks in here. Okay, let's see what the next story is, man. These stories are getting out of hand. I have so many questions. I don't even know what's going on. Let's go. What? That was closed. Okay, let's... Oh, my God. What is... Oh, that's the gin. Oh, my God. This is awesome. He's trying to kick people. Okay. What is this called? Die unnaturally. That's just not so friendly. Okay, now this is the explanation from when we saw the bodies from the previous story. Okay, uh... Hey, truth. Where are we going? Just truth. I'm tired of walking. Man, I would be tired of walking forever, too. Okay. Let's sit. Finally. Sure. Okay. Okay. Hey, she has red hair like Christy. Nice. What? Okay, there's a civilian minding his own business or something. Why are they just staring at him, though? Okay, they're all clueless just staring at him and walking by. Why are they acting weird, though? Okay. Wow. There's something about beachless. I would be speechless, too, because... What are these things? They're like... also, I don't know, man. They're creepy-licky. Okay, now! Okay, so they managed to survive. Wow. Awesome. It's happening in every story. Okay, who's this now? Oh, God. It looks like she's even stronger this time. My God. She is so evil. Look at her dialogue disappears. She's so evil. Like, what? Like... She's so evil, girl? Like, what's her purpose? Being so evil. Oh, man. I'll put this up here so we have to reset again. Okay, so let's go... I think there's one more story which we saw back there. So let's go check that one out. Look at the gen's leg. The yellow road teleports. I guess that's it. Well, let's go see where this takes us. I guess it doesn't work yet, man. Well, say bye, tweeter. There you go. Right, you guys. So thank you guys for watching. Thank you for the amazing support. And I will see you guys next time. Bye.


Well, thank you for coming. My name is Wayne Shadar with the engineering office at the town of Arlington, DPW. Bill Copperthorne works in my office at the system town engineer, and Emily Sullivan is our environmental planner. And the reason we're doing this presentation is the new EPA permit requires us to reach out to different stakeholders in the community to address stormwater and HEP people in the best way to approach the reduction of pollutants in stormwater. So I tasked this presentation to landscapers, landscaping professionals, and residential homeowners if they are so inclined, simply because when you put fertilizer down on your lawn, depending how it's put down, when it's put on the timing, the soil condition, whether it can do exactly what it's meant for it to run off into the local water bottles. So part of the requirements, like I said, from the permit is to reach out to certain stakeholders and this will be one of those stakeholder meetings for the year. So I'm going to try to do my best, explaining what I know about landscaping or more lawn maintenance. And by no means am I an expert. I was home till midday last night preparing this presentation. So I hope it will serve its purpose. So let me sit down if you don't mind. And please feel free to chime in with any questions, add any stories. The most important thing I hope to get out of this is that people ask questions and learn things, maybe learn better when everything's are difficult when everything's are new. And you can tell us how to get to more people. Here we go. The reason I chose this topic because I didn't know there were nutrient regulations in the state of Massachusetts, but there are. Since the law was in effect in 2012, I think we got enacted in 2015. And basically, for our area, we have water bodies that are repaired, beautiful manicured lawns. And how do we get here, why are we here? It's an outreach opportunity to landscape professionals as a requirement of our MS4 permit. And as we know, the American Dream, as I already grew up, I didn't have a lawn mower or a motor on it, but I pushed one of those lawn mowers in. And the reel wasn't self-propelled. It ran a really good cut. But the American Dream seems all about the front yard, the green grass. And what I picked up here was a collection of pictures. This is just a little fence, an American Dream. These three beautiful steaming yards are on here as well. These, I think, are kind of interesting. I Googled sod farm. And I got down using the street where you can Google, and you can just see that it's this farm and it's just sod, as far as the eye can see. And then I built a lawn upon another sod farm and I'm using the aerial image up here. And you can see this is just going to be 100 acres of grasses that people are going to be harvesting and putting on people's front yards. I just thought that was quite interesting. So how did the lawns come about? This is nothing to do with the necessarily the maintenance of the lawn, but I found it quite interesting. In the old days, the castles would be attacked by different other opposing enemies.  And the areas were typically right then, flowers and meadows and things like that, but something that would hide any opposing armies. And back then they came up with this word lawn came from the English word, so I said, heard from Google, I said it was a lawn. And that just has to do with that area of openness around the castles. So a lawn came from somewhere up to see its grass, but they called it the lawn. And it started, so they say, around the castle. And as time developed, it wasn't necessarily all about security and opposing armies. It became a status symbol. It started manning during the lawns and creating these fancy gardens. And I think this is Versailles right here. But what it meant was that it was a status symbol of the prestige that you could maintain this and how much effort and how much wealth you had in order to present such an amazing garden. But back then they didn't have lawn mowers, so they would have people out there with a site, which is those hand blades that they would use to cut some of the grasses. And again, I was really excited. I'm the lord of the state. They looked at all the people who worked for me. And this is kind of like my domain. So it was a status symbol. And it kind of carried forward in time into the 18th and 1900s where it wasn't necessarily the states or castles or things like that. But people had come across from Europe. And they brought some of the lawnmowers with them, which were croquet, antennas, and things like that. Golf eventually was another sport that developed with the Adventists to help utilize the grass. And it was really back then for wealthy people. Because you can see they're out there like a club or a tennis match or stuff into a big, big ordeal. And it was back then only the wealthy had the grass and the lawns. And then in the 1940s, Abraham Lovett was a great big developer and developed over 17,000 homes. But one of the big things he used to sell is he would build the host houses. And he would install the sod and the lawn and the grass and have it manicuricated completely before he would sell the houses. So it was like walking into an already established home. It wasn't grand new, it was a patch of dirt in front of it. And it was incredibly popular. It coincided with the end of World War II. And as you see, it turned into suburban sprawl. And this is what transgressed all across the country. We're a suburban community country now. And this is just a very large sprawl. But this is a little bit of a close-in to show you how much grass is involved and how we as a country and a society appreciate it. So it's the middle class person. He has no one in Rockwell Pictures. He's got the guy spending time on a weekend and not as long. It's a big deal. It's a lot of effort that goes into maintaining a lot of yards. I think it got too far. I think maybe it's an obsession. Is this what we're going for or is it an obsession? And you've got some, you've seen the fields at Red Sox where they can cut in the pictures of the logos. I thought this was kind of funny. We're not out there to talk about grass, obviously, but having gone too far, you know what I mean? And I think what you'll notice is a lot of people don't do that anymore. It's become a big business. It's a lot of work. So people are just tired of, I think, a lot of people taking care of their lawns. So maybe we're going back. It's not necessarily that status symbol of prestige anymore. These are some interesting facts that I learned during my research. 80% of the houses in the country have lawn. More water, grass is a bigger crop than the wheat and the corn that we grow across the whole country, especially when we irrigate more water on our lawns than we do developing the grains of corn and use it for food production. And a third, I guess, a third of our public water goes to water in the grass. And they did say 70% in the air. It's maybe like Las Vegas or Arizona. 70% of the water, depending on the season, can be applied to grass or to the landscaping and lawns, which is amazing. And we spent, for me, billion hours blowing the grass to take care of our houses.  So I think as you saw it, things, if people get frustrated, you probably, it's too much effort to take care of the yards. So it's time to hire a professional. If we're going to hire a professional, we hope that it's going to be someone who can understand how the grass is functioning, how you're going to take care of it, and hopefully how we can protect the environment at the same time. That's what I'm going to do now. So it's a lot more than just mowing the lawn. So it's a lot more mowing the lawn, and I hope you get into that a little bit again. Before we go further, any questions? Interesting facts, tidbits? All right. So, like I said earlier, I'm a land man, I don't know much about grass, so what you see here is what I've learned from the internet and articles in the last week or so. I'm kind of interested that you see a lawn that looks like a carpet, but someone who gets into the vegetation and the biology of it, there's a whole lot more involved with the piece of grass. And I think my bigger interest in lawns is the soil, because I have an interest in the soils that are underneath it, and we'll see over here that with a good soil, the LVD group growth just gives you a great grass product up top, and when it's not so good soil, then your roots just not hitting your plants just about as well. So I'm not going to read these things, I'm just going to go through it. If you have any questions, don't want to add anything to this, feel free. Well, basically, I've imagined there are resilient of these in every lawn, and they won't move along. So what does grass need? It needs sunlight, it needs air, it needs watering with soil. Those are the four things that are going to allow the plants to thrive. The sunlight is more of the black box, and if you learn about photosynthesis in school, basically it uses the sun energy and carbon dioxide and some chemical and biological activity to turn the sunlight energy to grow the plants. The energy is used to transfer and to take nutrients from the soil, turn it into carbohydrates, turn it into food for the plant, and use it and spread it out into the stem and root so that it's functioning plants. The air, obviously, they use CO2 and they discharge oxygen. Again, that can be taken in through the petals from the petals, the leaf of the grass itself as well as the roots. Obviously, the water concept is in the thirsty, but a lot of the nutrients are going to be coming in through that water, and obviously the plant that did the soil with soil is where all the nutrients are, and the water is just inside of it, going through the pores and things like that. So I'm going to just do a quick little slide on each of those four topics and see if there's any questions if you guys have anything quick as well. I think I'm going to be on this, it transforms the light and carbon dioxide and the minerals to create the food for itself. Yeah, I already said this. So you move along from the sunlight, go up to the air, take some carbon dioxide in water, it makes oxygen and there are plenty of growths. Interesting trivia fact that I found was a pair of grass can produce enough oxygen for 64 people for a day. That's great. So you're talking about the rainforest, or you know, rainforest probably does 1,000 people, but there is some benefit obviously to it, better than the thought of the tree, you know, helping with oxygen, but not grass, and it does. The water in the soil dissolves the minerals that are in the soil that the plant can use. More important thing is the vows of air and water in the soil. There are soil wars in there that are generated by the characteristics of the soil, the amount of clay, the amount of organic matter, the amount of sand and still, an impact on the type of soil. Too much soil or too much air in the soil and you know, I rough water it in thirsty, too much water has done up air and you know, suffering. So there's a balance in the soil for water and air that we need to meet. The soil does many things. It anchors the roots, keeps it sturdy, supplies the water to the roots, provides the air to the roots, furnishes the nutrients, and adds the nutrients to the water and the roots, it releases nutrients to them. Okay, I think the more we've already touched on this, the plant will be more effective if the soil powders its own right. You have a loose soil, the roots can spread out. You've heard a compacted soil, tight soil, the roots can't push themselves out into it, get into the other parts of the soil to absorb more nutrients. So a loose area in the soil is a good thing. Depending on the amount of clay in the organic matter, depending how absorbent it is, depending on how much water it has, depending on how that will allow the plant to absorb water. The soil needs to be rich enough to provide the plant nutrients, which is where I think we, or you as long care professionals will put in, will be feeding the soil with amendments to make sure that the grass has the appropriate amount of nutrients. And as I said, very recently compacted soil doesn't have enough air, it's stung to grow. These are the soil, two components, it's made of solid particles and a minute of force space. The solid particles is basically broken down into sand, silk, and clay, about say 95%. And then the organic matter is, they say anywhere from two to five percent, and that came down from a degree within the plant to any carbon or animals that may be broke or decayed within the soil, leaves in the forest and things like that. The organic matter in the lawn is going to be more of the lawn clippings, if you collect them, then they'll be less there. Show our hands here. When you guys get into the lawn maintenance part, but do you bag the clippings, do you let it go back onto the grass? Depends on what it says, you can go on one one one. What, why is that? If the grass, I don't want to spread it. The stem cells, grime, I don't mind spreading it, because it'll regenerate. Oh, okay. I don't want to regenerate grass. So now you're going to want herbicide down to the fall, and you can take the land. Okay, how about you? I'm never even thought of the grass which is taking real risk. That's interesting. Yeah. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. That's why I'm not going to listen to you guys. Now, the interesting part is the other void, the pores, the void space in the soil, I think it's just as critical as the soil itself and gives the ability for the roots to move, the water to migrate, the water to the nutrients that just fell off out of the soil. And it's really a balance of everything working together to get a perfect yard. My vision is probably not any healthier than ours. That's why I've been fighting my mom for 25 years and still don't have a fan. Some day we're going to hire somebody. Wait. Sorry if I make it. I had to. I couldn't get grass to grow. I couldn't do it. I was religious about it as a whole. I got a trip to Bagnes. It still wasn't working. It wasn't until I started putting the air holes into it in September. Air-raiding the soil. Because my soil had just so many years from the previous old and compacted and nothing was getting through. Water was running off and everything. Ever since I do that every September, now I get grass. I still get grass, which they treat. We're going to learn what else that air-raiding is doing besides un-compacting it. Pretty good picture for that. I learned that. So within the soil, you have different nutrients. I don't want to get into it. The big three are the macro nutrients that are in fertilizer standards. The NDK logo, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. So those are the three I'm going to focus on. But these are all the different nutrients that are in soil or that the lawn, the grass needs. And it's a quite complex interaction of how the plant gets those nutrients to the air, to the ground. Time really seems to, you know, a synthetic versus organic. It's just so complicated. I just want to show the picture of everything that can go on. But it needs the nutrients. In the big three, we've got nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. I tried to kind of get a brief stop to sort of say that nitrogen does better than potassium. I'm really just going to read this now. So the nitrogen gets absorbed through the plant, where it's basically the important thing is putting it the right amount down and at the right time. So it depends on the season and the stage of the grass growth and the way that you should put it down. Because it's going to use the nitrogen, I believe, to make the shoots grow and the roots spread out. And the time is added. So the time is very important and they amount a bit to it. If you put too much down, it could just wash off. So the nitrogen stimulates the shoot growth. It helps the whole photosynthesis process that generates the energy and they're generated hopeful that makes the grass to more green. And obviously it helps it reproduce. I think if the plant is growing well and it's right besides growing tall and having to mow it, the roots are spreading out as well and giving you more coverage. It takes away the open space available for weeds and lets the grass grow more in lush clusters. When it's required, it's required in large quantities. I don't necessarily understand what that says, but it's not always available. It's in the minerals that make the soil the nutrients straight out of the minerals. So what it uses is bacteria and microbial activity of the root on the minerals. It uses water against the minerals and the chemical dissolving and stuff that actually takes the nutrients out of the sand particle, the clay particle, the silk particle. So that process is needed to make the seed germination make the lawn wash and establish a new growth. But it's just not always available in the lawn, in the soil. So that's when we put it down with the fertilizer application or soil and interest. Potassium, what would that say? Photosynthesis, better water absorption and respiration of the plant. It would seem like they all were working on some other benefits. It helps with the disease and drought resistance and the structure of the logs and the health of the plant itself. The nutrient uptake, the nutrients in the organic matter and it's in the mineral content of the soil. So actually we have to take that, the plant has to take those nutrients out of the minerals and does it to, like I just explained previously, chemically, bacteria, microbial-wise and then to dissolve them as the water flows through the soil sits in the soil, chemical, it has to dissolve any kind of chemical action within the water and the, I don't want to say the ingredients, but the material themselves, of the mineral, somehow transform the nutrients from out of the part of the mineral part so if there's not enough nutrients for the lawn and you use fertilizers to supplement the nutrients in the soil as you see, there's asterisks on both of these but you have to be careful not to put too much. So this is really the focus of this. We're going to talk about the application of fertilizers and what happens if there's too much and how it flows off the land into the water-wise. I'm looking at stormwater. So everybody know what stormwater is? Stormwater the ground, the rain is the ground, flows down the hill to make matters make worse when it hits a roof or along or a road, typically with development and all of these things get put out there and it doesn't get into the ground and it runs off into the river so it doesn't benefit us when we have impervious area because it just rushes off quickly but on those areas that is not impervious like lawns or farms or fields anything that's on that land can roll off if it's not bound to the soil so what we like in the soil for lawns is we like something bound to the minerals of the soil that the grass root through photosynthesis and all those little activities that are going down in the soil with the roots that are taking it out of the soil rather than just sitting there in that infernalized particle that may just wash away when the next rainstorm comes so there are different approaches to that we'll talk about that later and has to do with slow release and fast release and when these components these phosphorous nitrogen roll off and get into our water bodies it creates the bacteria algae within the water bodies and when the algae die they go to a chemical decomposition microbial decomposition and that's when the water starts getting cloudy and discolored and it's using up all the nutrients and it affects just the plant the normal everyday plant life of the lily pad and vegetation along the edges of the lake and it affects them all and if you've heard of the toxic cyanobacteria in the news lately you've heard about it it's on our arm and it's everywhere and that's what that is I believe that's what Mystic Berber is searching this I found an article talking about toxic algae from 2009 and here it is 2019 and I got two just in the month of June in the Army to patch so it's been going on for a long time which means we're still getting pollutants into the water bodies this was supposed to be a different page in the slide but I will say NPK, you guys are all aware NPK is the percent of the nitrogen phosphorus and potassium within the bag of fertilizers it can also come from you know, leaf debris let the leaves sit there and pile like I do when I was cleaning up corduroy, those break down and they are organic and they used to decay and create phosphorus as well so if you came, leaves pile or grass clippings can discharge phosphorus that can also run off we get organic and naturally it's still a potential contaminant source so what we say here is if you are best way to approach that is if you're making your applications you don't want to put your applications on the grass it would give you to tell me what procedures you follow when you're beginning to apply fertilizer on a tarp, on the driveway, on the grass how do you do that when you're taking the bags off the truck you've got to go put it onto the do it off the street so you do it in the street what happens if you jump a bunch along it's going to burn along so you do it off the street and you set the shred okay, I'm going to ask you next time to put a tarp on it or make sure you sweep it up after A, it costs money so you don't want to save it B, it now evens lotion to the catch basin so if there's any there it rains we have to see painters painting a house and then washing their brushes out in the street kind of the same thing the paint is visible for phosphorus so what can you do as a landscape professional obviously you're here to help the homeowners give them that lush green lawn and do all the work that they want so you've got to be maintaining their guards for them you just throw in two different types of sprayers up there brought a sprayer and a drop sprayer one of the things that helps the soil interact better with the plants is pH the pH of the soil the measure of the acidity or alkalinity of the soil and lawns they say ideally between 6.2 and 7 is the pH that you're looking for so if you can do that you're going to have a better microbial chemical interaction for the plants to get the nutrients if you're lower or higher then that plant isn't going to be able to be as efficient at getting the nutrients out of it and it will then be stunted or die or something it's just not going to be as efficient or as lush as it could be if it was given the best characteristics to grow in you just mentioned that your goal is to be between 6.8 and 7.2 the other slide said 6.2 6.2 and 7 the two conflicted sides let's go for 6.8 and 7.2 but that determines the basis for how easily the plant is going to be neutral now aeration this is interesting when I first saw this slide I didn't really get it I understood the whole compaction thing but what this is doing is also creating a junction with your fertilizer application or nutrient addition hence whatever you're mending the soil is not going to go into the hole going to go down into the soil now the roots are going to strive to get down into that soil to use those nutrients that's also going to put some oxygen in there and help the soil be more aerated the water will be able to get in I think by doing the aeration do either of you put sand out there put any other additions to a lawn because a sand depends if you have a lawn that doesn't drain well then you might have more silt and clay in it and if you were to put sand in it then it would create more pore space for water to go through so doing the aeration would be a perfect time to put sand out there as well because you get the sand on the surface you get the sand down into the bottom of the hole and one thing that I didn't mention here but I haven't talked about critters the nematodes, the worms the bugs, the ants I think it's called pedicurbation it's the way that animals and insects and critters and chipmunks and snakes actually turn the soil over and help mix it up over time it might be anecdotal but I think I've heard that in two years the soil is turned over by all the bugs and ants and worms and don't improve it but that helps generating a good soil for the plants to get the nutrients out but it also gives a big reason to not use harsh chemicals or you may be getting rid of the grubs but at the same time you might be killing the animals that are terminating the ground so be careful what you put down because it may have effects on other things so something to be aware of so I know that there are quick release and slow release fertilizers if you put the slow release on then you're going to have a bad magic it's a granule and the soil over time the nutrients and nutrients and phosphorus and calcium will probably migrate and dissolve into the ground but slowly so that application will provide food for the springtime and then it's going to stay there for a year but for a longer period of time some worms may need it more rapidly and you may have to use a quick release so there's a science to it that I'm not aware of the point would be to use quick release when necessary because if it's put down there and it's immediate and it rains out then that will wash down into the stormwater whereas a slow release it's going to be migrating out of the pellet just as slowly and more so and these mineral particles in the soil itself but do you guys have a feel for which you use more often or what's better or more preferred in our to use quick release or slow release I'm not sure if it's slow release I got advice from Lexington that it's a less go product so I'm not sure so it's not like the label that's quick or slow release we use at least that it depends on the line and when needs that when needs I think each situation is gathering in any way I'm asking a question so come on out to the Wicked Tab you do the spring clean up everybody's ready to hit the garden plant dead flowers and gardens stuff like that when you are in the contracted services that you provide for the weekly service with lawn care do you typically go up and do like a springtime assessment deal with it when that crew goes out there at that time of year. Yeah. So it's really kind of an off-site assessment, not, not, when you take the leaves up and you see what's on the leaves. Okay. All right. You can feed that, and if you're just like, you know, running on a week or a week or blowing this like water or whatever, he's out there, and you can get that, you know, for a year or a half on the scene. So we can tatter that word. Okay. Okay. I'll put it all on the ground. I'm telling you right now, if I'm going to be meant to be at home, when I'm driving through this years old, I, I had some bare spots and I planted some seed. But the same time the crab was destroyed. And I know I'm supposed to plant seed. But when I went down to the water, I'm getting more to get to eat, baby. And I just planted. I'm thinking, yeah, I'm thinking it might come back, but I, it's in it. So I planted more seed than I was, than that probably. That's a never-ending problem. I was hired professionally, I guess, so recommendation is having pesticide licensed myself. There are so many regulations now, that in my particular application, my man knows not to put anything but slow release down, because it takes his time, and he keeps it away from the water on my property. There's not 100 yards away. It's wetlands and conservation. Oh, there's no regulation. We'll get to those. You know. We'll see them. The difference between slow release, and he never uses quick release on my own, just because of my environment. We'll get into that a little later. But that's it. I appreciate that you brought that up. Because I'm the town's conservation agent, too. And I know the conservation question is, like, when we condition permits, when, you know, we get a new permit. And how it's for someone who wants to just build a porch in the backyard, we have certain conditioning properties that they can only use slow release fertilizer and limit the number of uses in the year. So it's nice to hear that as a homeowner, you're actually aware of that. But that's all because I got a license. Yeah. But I'm lucky enough to take my name just to about it, too. Yeah. We're going to get to that. That's really the point on this. With these new regulations that I mentioned in the beginning, we're going to wrap that up in the end. So I'm seeing the transfer here, but it's going back into the runoff parts here. And I think I believe in the application of the fertilizers, if you have that quick release, you can run off faster and cause more use of problems. And you'll see, like I said, they closed the beaches and the bonds for swimming, we threw bets and things like that. But we, as the town, we're committed and not uncommitted, but we're required to improve our water quality conditions in the water bodies in town. So what we're doing is, hey, we're trying to educate people. One thing's for residents and professionals. So as you go down, if you can, say, you make 30 applications a year and you do them in the street, there's 30 little bits of fertilizer in the, you just maybe have to cop the water down the storm drain. Well, next year, you're going to be more careful with this 30 less that's going to happen. And if we can do 30 less over here, and the homeowners don't know, do it on our, just put a 6x6 top on there. Easy to do, pour your fertilizer in, if anything spills over, it's on the top, you wrap it up, you put it back in the, in this river. Another thing I'll say, when you're applying it, obviously, it doesn't do you any good to overlap it onto the sidewalk or the, or the driveway. So either you blow or blow it back onto the grass to get any benefit of it. Otherwise, it's just going to end up in the storm drain. So the way we use the fertilizer and how we clean up and make a big difference. So in town, we put in some rain gardens, and this is going to be more of a long way into the landscaping portion of it. But this is a rain garden over at the Hardy School. You don't see it, but it's a slight depression in there. But it takes all the water from the parking lot of the Hardy School on a low storm, and all that goes in there. Migrates, water migrates slowly through the soils and plants outtake a lot of the water. Instead of running right into the storm drain, it's being filtered through the soil and the plants prior to that. Is that another one here over at the intersection of Hedgeson and Herbert? This one has a little more flowers and a little more pistachio peeling. And then one of the other things you do this year, there's nothing to do with the landscaping, but we're trying to cut some trenches into the street, and we put small infill-fishing benches connected to catch basins. So when the water comes in and we're diverting it, before it gets to the pipe that goes to the river, we put it on a smaller, slower pipe that takes the beginning of the water and puts it into the ground and it will drain slowly, and that will rush in straight along into the river. So that's going to recharge the aquifer, and it will help the health of the river. So we're trying to do things where we should require to do this as the first approaches that we took to try. Now, the loop-feed regulations, as I said earlier, came out in 2015, and it had a lot to do with how you use the fertilizer. It's all meant to be to reduce storm water pollution. So these are going to be some of the requirements that the regulations you require you to do, and I will get it in. So the regulations say, obviously, I think it's really a spell-selfage plan to reduce summer, January, February. I think the professionals know not to apply anything. Homeowners might not. You might think, oh, the grasses is clear. It's June, and it's January 10th. It's 40 degrees up. You know what? I've got to put fertilizer down in the fall.  Well, that's in the middle because the soil's frozen. It's going to run off. It's just bad day and bad time. So you shouldn't be putting it down in frozen soil. If it's going to rain within 24 hours, it shouldn't fertilize it either because it'll wash away. So the timing is important. Then the location. Here's where the overlap of the spray from the spray to go down in the driveway. Clean that up so it doesn't wash down down in the driveway. So I'm trying to clean it up, if you can, because it's not all the way in the grass on the pavement. This has to do with those regulations. You were talking about the nutrient regulations say that if you're using a targeted application, which I'm going to assume is the drop spreader, possibly maybe a liquid. After something targeted, where you have more control over, you can go up to 10 feet to a wetland in order to stay for regulations. Conservation commission, if you did something there, might have additional conditions. This is just what's in the regulations. And if you're using a broadcast spreader that swirls it out and that spiral approach, then they stay 20 feet away from wetlands. Water, bodies, stream, berks, place, things like that. The applicability of these regulations, I think is far from reaching. It's applied everywhere. Phosphorus goes down on every lawn. And what this new regulation says is that you should not be putting down phosphorus until you do a soil test. And the soil test will tell you whether you have enough phosphorus, whether you have enough nitrogen, and it'll make a recommendation on what the right fertilizer or components of fertilizer you need to put down. Just because it's a state university, UMass Extension offers soil testing to soil. And you're supposed to have a soil test before you apply fertilizer. So you are educated as to what you're trying to give the soil. The interesting thing about soil testing is you just don't go on one spot because things are random. So they recommend taking a little core or more in 12 random locations. And that's what they say in 12 by time locations. 6 or 17, I think. You'll be able to 6,000 square foot yard from Lorraine. 75,000 square foot of the state. I guess you want to make sure you're in the same area. It is all in the general same area. In addition to the same, you just spread out 12 random locations. It's in a small lot. And the reason for this testing is really to just apply what's needed as opposed to just randomly putting down something that you may buy off the shelf. And we'll say that if you look going to hardware stores or Home Depot's, they are supposed to keep their phosphorus and zero phosphorus fertilizers separate. I'm particularly to notice that Home Depot, that they're right next to each other. Other places have had a demo across the aisle from each other. But there's also a notice that there should be posted says that zero phosphorus is necessary. And the phosphorus that's included should only be used at certain times in certain locations. So let's describe the soil test a little bit. Take your 12 samples. It's a little broad. I'm actually going to get one. I'm going to test my soil for the first time. You can go grab about 4 to 6 inches. And then I watched a video on this. So you basically put them all into a bucket.  Mix it all up so you get a mixed representation of all those samples. And then measure up one cup. Put it in a bag. Use the application. Put it in an envelope. And you mail it off to UMass or if you have a place nearby that can do it. I don't know what places to provide the soil analysis. Mahoney stuff is great. That's good because you could probably do all the soil samples for your customers in a certain beacon ring there and not have to mail it out to UMass or some other extension program. So that's something that's good to do in the fall so you know what you're going to apply in the springtime. This is a set of results. It's a sample results of the soil analysis and it tells you all the macro-microbene nutrients in there. Pretty much on the bottom is a bar chart. It tells you where you stand. If you were to look at this one here, you'd say, I would say you can not eat the crosshairs because you're above optimum and the regulations actually say what that level is. Potassium, now you want to maybe use a nitrogen potassium fertilizer in seroprossures because you owe potassium, but they don't seem that good. They seem that good. Now, so there's a pH, right? Good value. So it's pointing that right in the middle. It's a little bit closer. Zoom in here. Optum memory. So they tell us the range. 4 to 14. They're at 26.4. Don't put it down to phosphorus. Now, you've got to pay more for a bag of fertilizer that has phosphorus in it. And it's just, it's not going to do anything because the plank can only take out as much of the phosphorus as it needs. Can't take no more. So what I would recommend is to check out the UMass extension program, church management guidelines. There's a lot of good information on there. It tells you just the 27 pages or something like that. Really, if you find things like this interesting, lots of good information. Now, as a professional, you do not need a license. As you can correct me, I don't really need your license to apply fertilizer. But you are required to take reference. There are no soil police. There's no fertilizer police. I'll be honest with you. The nutrient regulations are governed or the jurisdiction of the Department of Agricultural Resources.  And if they're not getting anyone to do it, so that's why I'm doing it today. So I guess I'm tongue-in-cheek a little bit, saying there's no fertilizer police, but this happens. But if they could, if they come in and want to come out there or if they get pushed out, they could do that. If you want to promote yourself as an environmentally friendly service, you can promote that to your residents. And you probably get some people that wouldn't be aware of it and they might need you for that. And then you can say, you follow the nutrient regulations, you keep track of where you're using it, the amount you put down on the law, what the soil analysis says, and when you apply it. That's what the applicators are supposed to be doing according to the regulations. And if you don't, then it produces it. No. I don't know what would happen. But, you know, so I like it. This is a little bit tough on what I said. It's a verb at the hardware stores. After the soil test, and it says you have optimum or you have enough phosphorus, then you want to be looking for a bad that has zero in the NPK, where the P is zero. That's going to be my guess for the future. Nitrogen is an issue as well. But I think nitrogen is used up more quickly than phosphorus. So I don't know if there's going to be any way if you have enough nitrogen and you have enough phosphorus, but you eat potassium. That's a, I think, more advanced class on nutrients that I'm unable to figure out. But maybe it's not that complicated. And that's it. If you don't have questions, I have lots of questions for you guys, just how you work and how you approach it and what you do and what you think we should do to reach out to more landscapeers next time. We are videotaping this one. So what I would do is when it's available, I would send that link to everybody that we send the email up to. And we'll be able to tell the EPA that we, you know, we targeted 50 landscape professionals with a video and a presentation. So I guess my biggest question is, A, if you pay attention to the phosphorus and fertilize our patients, that's going to benefit our water bodies. So with that, I'll say thank you and we'll cut the video and call it a day.


Hey guys, what's up? Welcome back to my channel. It is Drew here from Lone Fox and thank you so much for joining me today I hope you guys are having an amazing day yourself And it feels so awkward honestly to be in front of the camera right now because well not awkward But I have not sat in front of the camera for like a week and a half And I'm just used to honestly filming multiple times a week So I had a week and a half off which was crazy But honestly the days are kind of like flowing together at this moment So that could also be why but if you guys were missing some content and make sure to follow the Instagram It is Lone Fox home. I post new photos there every single day and I post a ton of stories a day So if you want more content head over check it out and follow along I am going to be doing some more DIY throw pillow ideas and I have four Extremely cute and just like good quality projects like these pillows look like they came from anthra or urban honestly Like I'm very very happy with how they turned out. So if you guys like throw pillows, this is the video for you We are going to be DIYing them from start to finish but quickly before jumping into this video I am extremely excited to announce that I launched my first ever DIY kit that actually correlates with one of the pillows in this video And it is live on loanfox.com right now I am launching my first ever DIY mini loom kit which you guys can find over on loan fox Click the link check them out if you want to and also guys click around over on the site I have listed so many new home decor pieces that are freaking adorable. I'm obsessed with them There is stationary. There is candles DIY supplies I also have some of the tools that I'm using in this video like the gold fabric scissors You guys are going to see I just had so much extra time lately that I've been able to do projects and things I've been wanting to so definitely check out loanfox.com. Okay, that was enough rambling Let's get into today's projects because you guys are going to love these DIY pillows. So let's get started So for the first pillow I knew I wanted it to be a square shape And I had some excess linen fabric that was actually from an old curtain And I thought I could dye it using a bottle of navy fabric dye had so I'm creating a linen Ombre pillow. So the fabric pillow that I'm starting off with is from Amazon. I will link this blow for you guys I've had these forever. I bought a big pack a while back And this is the linen curtain that I actually used to film on top of it was like a filming background So some of it is stained from past projects and I'm going to be repurposing it and I'm using my new pair of scissors These are actually from the website. They're so cute and I just love them their fabric scissors So I'm gonna cut out about eight chunks of fabric that are just like random sizes I just want to have enough to work with that way when I dye them I have a good amount of fabric to work with so I'm cutting out eight long Kind of sections of this linen fabric and these are what they're gonna look like and then I moved on into my living room And filled a little bucket and attempted to put on this glove Which was my roommates glove and she has a smaller hand than me So I was like trying to shove it on and I basically poured a little bit of dye And I started off by pouring in way too much So I kind of started off in the middle of the spectrum of ombre So I had to go back and do some lighter colors as well But I basically just dipped the fabric in just rinsed or dripped off any of the excess dye And then laid it on top of some trash bags to dry and I added a little bit more dye each time It just literally like a couple drops or more that way each time you dyed the new fabric It was just a little darker than the one previous So as you can see this one's just a little bit darker than the one that I did prior And I'm just gonna continue this process honestly until you have eight really nice shades And you can go in and re-dip but always remember you can't really make fabrics lighter So I actually made a super super light dye after I kind of did some of the darker colors And then went back and created some lighter colors as well You're basically just gonna want a nice variation of different shades of navy and this one kind of honestly goes from like a Periwinkle to navy which is super pretty so you're gonna let those fabrics sit for about an hour or so And then you're going to rinse them with cold water to get any excess dye out And then let the fabrics dry overnight and this is the outcome of the fabrics I think these turned out so pretty and I laid them out kind of in the ombre coordination laid my pillow on top And what I'm going to be doing for this pillow is I'm going to be fabric gluing this now The reason I'm doing this is because I know that the fabric adhesive I'm using is super super strong bond So that's why I'm doing it But honestly guys if you have a sewing machine, please feel free to use that But I know not everyone has access to a sewing machine So I really like to share with you guys the easiest and most simplistic ways to create these pillows because those of you Who are sewers out there definitely know how to attach this using a sewing mechanism And you can just make it a little bit stronger But some people don't know how to use a sewing machine or don't have a sewing machine So I'm using fabric glue and basically what I'm doing is I'm just cutting strips of this fabric and I'm doing it very Organically I am not measuring it at all I really like the look of that like frayed edge and like the inorganic shapes of the lines So I really just went along and applied the fabric glue about a half inch away from the edge and then glued it Down that way I was able to kind of fray up that linen and just make it look really pretty and kind of worn in Which is the vibe I was going for so I just continued it going from darkest first And then all the way to the lightest color at the end Cut off all that excess fabric and kind of just brushed my hands over it to fray it and that finished off this linen ombre pillowcase For pillow number two I really wanted to break out my loom and do a weave in weave in a woven pillow So I'm going to be weaving the strip down the center That's going to just kind of be like the main focal point of the pillow and then the outside is going to be a linen fabric I'm going to be starting off with my loom that I created a while back on my channel And this is the yarn selection I'm using these are exactly the same ones that come up from the DIY kit So these are super super pretty and I'm starting off by taking my 18 by 18 pillow And I'm going to cut one side down to 12 and a half inches Making sure that it's the opposite side from the zipper because we are going to be creating this into more of a lumbar shape pillow Instead of a square shape and I'm inserting this inside out And I'm going to be using a needle and thread just to sew across the top of this pillow and it's super simple You guys can just create like a basic stitch You're just gonna want to sew off the top here So I went ahead tied a knot stuck my needle through and then how I'm going to be stitching this is I'm basically going to be putting my needle down through with the stitch that we created up through the backside but creating a new stitch about a quarter inch from where the thread is hanging out of and Whipping this around so basically you're just gonna continue this process and keep in mind that you can also use fabric glue If you would like to but I just decided to stitch it that way I could share with you guys Snip off that extra thread and then you could flip your pillowcase inside out to reveal your new lumbar Rectangular shape which I love this and then what I'm going to be doing is using a white string to string the loom And I'm not going to go super in-depth on loom weaving in this video I'm definitely gonna share with you guys the kind of like pattern I'm going for for this pillow But I have an entire video sharing you how to DIY your own loom as the one you could see here It also shares with you tons of different stitches how to cast on how to weave all of my tips and tricks So I will link that for you guys above and also in the description box So I'm gonna start off by just using my warp thread and I'm going to do a couple rows of this I always do this to start and you guys might be able to already tell if you are like weavers yourself that I Should have started this probably about six inches above where I did I had such a hard time cutting and tying off these threads at the end But I was able to do it so basically the ruler makes it so it's a little bit easier to weave from one side Like from the right side to the left side and then when you go back the opposite way It's just like a little bit more of a in-out pattern So I'm doing a couple rows of white yarn to start And I use a wide tooth comb to push that yarn down and just get it in place because you're not gonna want to pull it Too tight so as you can see here the ruler kind of acts as a little guide So you can shift it upwards and it creates a nice open area for you to put your yarn through and when you weave it back The opposite direction you kind of have to go in out of those warp threads. I love this aqua yarn. It is so pretty It's actually a roving yarn So it's kind of very like wool-esque which think looks really nice in weavings And I'm using this really thin kind of pale yellow tone and I'm going to be weaving through a couple rows of this Just to add a little pop of yellow Cutting off one of the other roving yarns this one's super super thick and chunky I'm actually pulling it apart I thought was a really nice little kind of tip because you don't have to use the full thing as is you can actually kind of Pull these apart and use them in smaller sections This one is a very pale pink which I love it and I'm pushing it down Gonna weave this in and just a simple two rows to start and then I'm gonna add a bit of a textural element So this kind of gives a 3d look so how you're gonna do this is you're going to take your yarn And you're actually gonna go up and underneath the String that is to the right side of what you're working with so as you could see here You're going to put your yarn needle underneath that string and then pull your yarn through and it's just gonna kind of create this looped Pattern as you can kind of see here and once you get to the end You can actually go back in the opposite direction and it almost creates this chevron herringbone Esk 3d look which I think is just so cute and it just adds such a fluffy Element to this and I'm adding a little bit of right string or not right string white string to the right side That's what I meant to say and a couple rows all the way across Also make sure once you kind of end the color of yarn that you're working with that you leave a 10 inch tail off the side That way you have enough room to tie it and you also have enough room to Kind of use it as a decorative accent in the end which you guys are going to see so I'm adding a couple more rows of My yarn just kind of continuing with stitches that I've already done and adding new colors as I go up here I actually wanted to create a little area where I was going to stitch on top and create a pattern So I created this large white area and filled in any of the gaps with that aqua wool roving yarn Which is I just love that yarn so much and then I also use the dowel to create a loopy texture So you're gonna pull the dowel out and it creates this loopy texture Which I featured this in my last weaving video as well And then once you reach the end of your woven section You're just gonna tie off the ends and I kind of forgot that I was gonna stitch on top of the white So all I did was use the yellow string and I just stitched a couple of little cross or plus signs on here Which I think just added kind of like a quirky fun element I just like the element of additional stitching on top of the weaving. I thought it was super cute So I left this white panel open to do just that so I added just a couple of plus signs here and there very organically shaped Continued to cut and tie off the string at the top and all you have to do is snip in between Two nails and then just tie them off and then on the right and left side You're also going to have those hanging off threads So just tie them with a neighboring yarn Just tie them in a square knot which is right over left and then left over right That's gonna give you a nice secure bond and actually left my strings hanging off What do you guys are going to see why did that kind of in the end of the pillow? So I'm snipping off any of those warp threads and this is the weaving which I think is just so cute How cute is this I want to remake this into an actual wall hanging for sure So on top of my white pillowcase I'm going to add a good amount of fabric glue and then I'm going to place on top of it this scrap piece of linen fabric Which this is all the way back from when I made those Christmas gifts and I made the lavender eye pillows So I'm going to cut off the excess linen fabric that I'm using and Then we're going to add glue to the back of our weaving and guys do not worry about this The glue is not going to seep through. It's super strong bond And it's just honestly the easiest way for me to attach this You can definitely go in and stitch it but you have to be very careful So this finishes off the pillow and I just left those yarns dangling on the left and right side I think it adds such a cute texture to it, but you can also snip them if you'd like to Pillow number three was actually a hundred percent inspired by you guys because so many of you guys talked about tea Dying my curtains and my bedroom makeover and I was like Let's go ahead and tea dye a pillowcase and add a little bit of stitching to the exterior edge and just turn it Into a cute little tea dyed pillow So what I'm starting off by doing is actually boiling some water and I'm going to add in a couple of just Lipton teabags I've had these for years. I used to make sweet tea all the time and now I don't cuz it's just too sweet So I went and put five bags in there, which gives it a nice good color I would probably suggest about five bags for the amount of water I'm using here and then started by dipping the edge and as you could see here It honestly immediately starts turning kind of like a brownish tone, which I love So I dip that in a couple of times and then I also went ahead and poured some water Directly over the area that you can kind of see where that brown and that white was merging because I wanted it to bleed But bleed very lightly so it turned into an ombre So I actually squeezed out the excess flipped it over to the opposite side and then dipped the opposite side as well This is actually the zipper edge that I'm dipping and this is what it ended up looking like I laid it out for a while and I'm just in love with the color of this pillow It turned out so pretty the next day I went ahead and used some white yarn put it on a yarn needle And I'm going to be doing a blanket stitch all the way around the outside of this pillow And all you have to do for this is just basically stitch from the backside forward and make sure that you catch that loop Before you do your next stitch so stitch from the backside forward and to stitch right up through to where when you pull the String through it's going to catch the loop and you're gonna basically be repeating this around the exterior edge You can do this with a contrasting color if you'd like to or an accent color in your home But I just wanted to do something super minimal and simple so it didn't really distract from the teatying because I really love the Look of that so I think it's just a little bit easier to actually watch how I'm stitching this as opposed to me telling you Kind of how to do it, but you're gonna be repeating this process around the entire exterior edge When you reach the corner you can just simply create a stitch and then also create the same stitch on the other side That way you could start off the other side nice and cleanly Once you're done I just went ahead and pulled the string through one side of the pillow It tied a knot on the backside and then snipped off any excess thread and that finishes off this teedied Stitched pillow and I think this is super cute and very minimalistic Our last pillow is going to be a cute kind of like anthro inspired ombre stitched pillow This one turned out really adorable It also has pom poms on the corner which are super fun and just add like a little whimsical touch to it And this is our stitched pillow So I'm going to be achieving this with this yarn from Joanne's it's so pretty and I also went ahead and I sewed down an Ikea 20 by 20 pillowcase into a lumbar size as you guys saw me do prior and I'm on the front side of the pillow I'm going to go ahead and every single inch across the front side I'm going to create a little tick mark and then draw a line all the way across that way It is just so much easier to make our stitching lines straight so I believe I had nine lines in the end and I extended those if they needed to be extended pulled my yarn through the needle and This is a very repetitive and super simple pillow as well Just go ahead and string up through the back side And then basically are going to do is create like a two inch long stitch and then on the back side You're only going to want it to be about a quarter inch and then you're going to create a two inch long stitch again So essentially on the front side of the pillow You're going to want the yarn to show the most but you're also going to want to have that stitching detail So that is why I'm only kind of having the yarn on the back side for about a quarter of an inch So our stitches are about two inches long with a quarter inch gap in between If that makes sense and then you're going to pull that through and repeat the process all the way down So you're going to go from the back side up through to your next line and just repeat once again stitching all the way across and I think it looks really nice kind of when you make it look almost like brick work to wear the Stitches kind of our offset with the ones above it But you can also make it even if you'd like to as well and the thing that's nice about this yarn is that it kind of does the Ombre work for us as you continue stitching the yarn gets a little bit lighter in some sections And then it kind of fades into new colors as well So this is a very repetitive process from now on I'm going to be stitching at the entire front of this pillowcase Coming up to the end here and I just love the way this ended up turning out You're just going to go ahead and then stitch to the back side tie a knot once again And then just clip off any excess yarn and here is the front of our stitched pillowcase It looks really amazing and I wanted to create these little pom-poms so all I did for this was I wrapped it around a ruler a lot of times and This I know is not your traditional way to make pom-poms typically people make them on forks or with cardboard But every time I tried it they just didn't look how I wanted them to do So I just very carefully pulled it off the ruler tied string around the exact center of the pom-pom and just tied it super super tight Trying to make sure that each side was even Tied it in a triple knot there and then went around with my scissors and snipped around the exterior edge to make this into a little fluffy ball So that kind of finishes off the pom-pom I also go in and definitely trim off any long threads just to make it seem a little bit more circular shaped and How you're gonna attach this is just with that string that you tied your pom-pom off with you're going to loop it through a yarn Needle stitch it through the corner and this tie it off on the corner So I did a couple of knots here and that attaches the pom-pom to the corner of the pillow Which these just look so cute and I did it on all four corners And here's another one that I'm creating for you guys this one was probably the fluffiest one I just created a lot of loops around the ruler placed it on top of the string Tied the string around the center you have to be very careful with this just tied around super super tightly So you kind of gather everything into the center and then snip off all those loops to unveil a puffy little ball of yarn Once again, just tie that on to the corner of your pillow and that finishes off your stitched pom-pom pillow All right you guys so I hope that you enjoyed those projects. I personally love them I think my favorite pillow was honestly the one that I made with the DIY loom kit I do think the weaving is so fun and therapeutic I honestly do it all the time and I have multiple wall hangings that I've created that I haven't even shared because They're just so fun to make and I just absolutely love creating them So I think that one's probably my favorite and then honestly the teed eye one might be my second favorite But it's kind of going hand-in-hand with the little ombre linen strip one because that one's really cute too But I'm not gonna keep you guys here for much longer So definitely if you are not already make sure to subscribe to my channel I post brand new home decor and DIY content every single week here on Loan Fox And you can also follow along over on Instagram at Loan Fox home where you can get more behind-the-scenes type stuff Which is also very very fun. I post there pretty often. I'll let you guys go now. Have an amazing rest of your day. 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