Monday, May 25, 2009

Welcome!


Welcome, welcome to our blog!  The spOtlight weekend is less than two weeks away!  
We hope you will join us for our Sewing Seeds event to be held at Studio 490.
We have been busy building paper-making frames, designing embroidery patterns, preparing the seeds for germination and gathering up the supplies needed to host this event.

Here is the schedule for the weekend.

Make Paper!
Fri, June 5 from 7 - 8:30 pm
Sat, June 6 from 10 - 11:30am

Embroider!
Sat, June 6 from 2 - 3:30pm
Sun, June 7 from 10 - 11:30am  &  2 - 3:30pm

Planting demonstration!
Sunday afternoon (time tba)

(Registration is recommended, so that we have a sense of numbers.)
Please email us at sewingseedscollective@gmail.com or call 519-829-3576.



Sunday, May 10, 2009

Bag of Seeds

This is Christina's bag of collected native plant seeds.  (bag design by Janet Morton 2008)



Contents:

Flower Seeds
Blue Vervain - verbena hastata
Thimbleweed - anemone virginiana
Swamp Aster - aster puniceus
Foxglove Beardtongue - penstemon digitalis
New England Aster - aster novae-angliae
Dense Blazing Star - liatris spicata


Grass seeds
Switch Grass - panicha virgatum
Virginia Wild Rye - elymus virginiana
Indian Grass - sorghastrum nutans
Little Bluestem - schizachirium scoparia