Learn how to make a striped Christmas tree skirt with this sewing pattern. Create a bold or scrappy look with this Christmas sewing project. Do you love a bold Christmas look? Do you have a bunch of ...
Lifehacker: Three Cheap, Simple Ways to Make a No-Sew Christmas Tree Skirt
Statesman Journal: Here's what it takes to quilt a 14-foot Christmas tree skirt for a U.S. Capitol building
Picture the center circle of a basketball court. It's 12 feet in diameter. Now add 2 feet. You can find a Christmas tree skirt that big — made especially for decking the halls at the U.S. Capitol — at ...
Here's what it takes to quilt a 14-foot Christmas tree skirt for a U.S. Capitol building
Interior Alaskan forests have only six native tree species: white spruce, black spruce, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, larch (tamarack) and paper birch. Northern Canadian forests have all of those, plus jack pine, balsam fir and lodgepole pine. Since northern Canada and interior Alaska share the same grueling climate and extremes of daylength, why are the Canadian tree species absent from ...
It is common for people in interior Alaska and corresponding areas of northwestern Canada to use the name cottonwood when referring to one widespread variety of deciduous tree.
A tree's age can be easily determined by counting its growth rings, as any Boy or Girl Scout knows. Annually, the tree adds new layers of wood which thicken during the growing season and thin during the winter. These annual growth rings are easily discernible (and countable) in cross-sections of the tree's trunk. In good growing years, when sunlight and rainfall are plentiful, the growth rings ...