TGIF! It’s time for another roundup of links from my travels around the web this week:

• Artist Satoru Aoyama adds embroidery stitches to vintage black-and-white photos to create mixed media works of art.
• Open Culture has the scoop on where you can download 300 knitting books published between 1849-2012 for free.
• Annie made a clever pouch for one of her embroidery hoops — I have never seen a cross-stitch piece finished this way. Very creative.
• Summer Pierre has a lovely comic about how a poem by Nikki Giovanni got her through a tough period.
• Mary Corbet posted this awesome guide to finding designer embroidery kits. I’m totally swiping this for my guild for new workshop ideas.
• I love Jennifer Louden’s “10 Ways to Discern if Your Idea is Worth Sticking With.”
• Sometimes I find myself reading fascinating articles about the most random topics. This is one of them: “The harsh truth about speed-reading“

Video of the Week

This week I found a lovely music video from a group called the Jane Bordeaux Band who describe their music as “American folk-country music in Hebrew.” The video is a wonderful little animated short.