Episode 181: The Color Play Episode

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madestar1Latest bit of play with what I’m calling my Findlay-Wolfe stars

And here’s some more play–messing around with magazine ads:

  1. The ad itself–

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2. The first drawing–

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3. With color added:

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4. A little more abstract–

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Read Christa’s new book! (Amazon link here)

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Visit her site at : http://christaquilts.com/

Hope you have a great week!

Episode 180: Re-Entry

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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!