Shades of Green

Trees are filling in with beautiful shades of green. This time of year everything looks so fresh and bright ! Very spring green ! Springtime in the woodlands.

 

Spring! Glorious Spring!

Lovely time of year when everything is blooming, birds are chirping and new growth is emerging in these lush green colors!
 

Free Motion Sewing Note Cards

A few years ago I tried my hand at a technique called Free Motion Sewing using my regular sewing machine and created these simple note cards.

Use your sewing needle  as your 'pen'. The needle remains stationary and you move your fabric around in any direction to 'draw' your design. 

Drop your feed dogs! Dropping them gives you full control of the movement of the fabric. Sewing machine feed dogs are metal teeth-like ridges that emerge from a hole in the throat plate of a sewing machine. They move as you sew, gently gripping the bottom fabric to help it pass through the sewing machine.

 I've also read that leaving the feed dogs up works  just as well when Free Motion Sewing. You'll have to test for yourself to see what works for you. Plenty free tutorials online.

 ( old photos, excuse the poor image resolution )

More Blooms And & 'Shrooms

 

A Walk In The Woods ~ Buds, Blooms and & 'Shrooms

 

I Took A Walk In The Woods ...

"I took a walk in the woods 

       and came out taller 

         than the trees."  

    ~ Henry David Thoreau
 

Dogwoods Are Blooming!

Dogwood trees are more than pretty fragrant blossoms to Native Americans who consider these trees as symbols of protection and safety in southeastern Native American tribes. In some Mohawk communities, the primeval Tree of Life in the Sky World is said to be
a giant dogwood tree. 

 The tree usually blossoms in April. An interesting fact is that the blossoms of this tree are not actually flowers but a type of leaf known as bracts. The blossoms last for three or four weeks, and the scarlet berries that follow them can linger into the early winter months.

 

In the summer the dogwood's beautiful green leaves give way to beautiful scarlet fall foliage.  

We have an abundance of the beautiful Dogwoods throughout our property. What a lovely sight when they're all blossoming! Truly a sign of spring and new life.