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The earth, if anyone is wondering, is 4.5 billion years old. This comes up.
Some fun stuff to check out, thanks to A Quilter’s Table‘s great newsletter, The Scrap Basket:
For all you pattern designers (or would-be pattern designers):
http://www.meadowmistdesigns.blogspot.com/2015/12/announcing-pattern-writing-blog-series.html
A Craft World quiz via While She Naps:
http://whileshenaps.com/2015/12/2015-online-sewing-and-craft-world-quiz.html
As you may have heard, the New York Public Library has digitized its photography collections. One search for quilts leads you to this page (where I grabbed the picture above):
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?&keywords=quilts&sort=mainTitle_ns+asc#/?scroll=19
A list of my favorite books that I read in 2015:
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher (very funny, especially if you’ve ever worked in academia)
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
Ghettoside: a True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy
Love, Nina by Nina Stebbe (nonfiction; letters; hilarious)
Bettyville by George Hodgmon (nonfiction; memoir; sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking)
Hold Still by Sally Mann (one of my favorite photographers)
My Struggle, Book 2 by Karl Ove Knarsgaard
Euphoria by Lily King
M Train by Patti Smith
The Tenth of December by George Saunders
A brilliant graphic novel everyone should read: Here by Richard McGuire
Have a great week!