Websites Articles & Information<\/strong><\/p>\n This blog post<\/a> neatly recaps a great article is about\u00a0 the beneficial effects of crafting. I love the list, because I have thought it a zillion times and I love the neat way in which it outlines my thoughts. The result? Go craft something!<\/p>\n Guy’s guide<\/a> to hanging out in fabric stores and shopping for fabric with your wife\/girlfriend\/S.O.<\/p>\n Have you seen that Gretchen<\/a> has a companion Facebook page<\/a> to her website? I didn’t know either. Go like it and show Gretchen some love.<\/p>\n I made the Fair Vendor Paper.li paper, because I retweeted a Daily Deal from the Missouri Star Quilt Company. It is kind of sad for that to be my claim to fame after all the other writing I have done here.<\/p>\n From the inspiration department, check out Eleanor’s Walks<\/a>. Eleanor is a client of mine and she has started a blog on walking San Francisco city streets. She has about 5 posts so far, including an About Me<\/a> post and is going great guns. Her posts are illustrated by digital images at the moment, but she is a watercolorist and draws, so some of her drawings will color the blog as well. I think it s a great project and glad to be helping out. Go take a look and leave a comment.<\/p>\n Fabric, Tools, Shops, Supplies & Embellishments<\/strong><\/p>\n I was fascinated by this blog post<\/a> about how a fabric order gets processed and delivered. the comments are interesting as well.<\/p>\n Color theory class review<\/a> by your fave and mine, Carol Wool!<\/p>\n Exhibits, Tutorials & Events<\/strong><\/p>\n Have you seen Linda Gass’ work? She does aerial views of the San Francisco Bay Area using quiltmaking as a medium. Take a look at her work from a recent exhibit<\/a>.<\/p>\n The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles has acquired part of Penny Nii’s collection including pieces from Libby Lehman, Michael James and Jonathan Shannon. Take a look at the press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n Books, Patterns, Magazines & Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n Need some summer dress patterns<\/a>?<\/p>\n Sew Sweetness is have a Dress Up Party<\/a> as well. People are reviewing different patterns on her blog. There are a lot of dresses, but other patterns as well. Check it out.<\/p>\n Remember the receiving blankets I talked about making<\/a> last month? Here they are in use, cute baby not included. I am very pleased that the new mom likes them and they are in use.<\/p>\n Have you joined the Dresden Plate QAL? SherriD is putting it on and Frances, of The Off Kilter Quilt fame, is joining<\/a> in as well. Check out Sherri’s ‘Have a Plate of Goodness’<\/a> post for directions. In a recent post<\/a> she talks about inspiration. Check out the Quilt Index<\/a> and search for Dresden Plate under the pattern option in the Advanced Search screen. I am not doing the QAL, but it was fun to look at the DPs in their collection. If you don’t know how to make a Dresden Plate, check out my tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other Artists<\/strong><\/p>\n If you haven’t taken a look at Daisy W’s Escape Velocity<\/a> piece, you must go RIGHT NOW and do so. I love stitching and embroidery and this one is very appealing. I love the color and the spiral design as well the way the ends trail off into, what looks like, a fun tangle. If this piece doesn’t make you wish you had joined the Valdani drop on Massdrop<\/a>, I don’t know what will. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Diana Leone died recently of cancer. She was a quintessential quilt artist and owned the Quilting Bee in downtown Mountain View for years. She had the same birthday as me (a few years older, though) and founded CQFA<\/a>. She also wrote the book used in the Sampler class I took to\u00a0 learn to quilt. I still use it, mostly because of the annotations made over the years, to make binding. 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