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Friday Finds is my weekly round-up of needlework, art, and book news from around the web.

It’s nearly 10pm here in chilly Chicago, but it’s still Friday, so let’s share some links.

Here are this week’s links:

• I guess I must be old because I’ve read half of the books on this list of “15 Children’s Books No One Reads Now.” I have a copy of Hitty, Her First Hundred Years that my grandmother gave me when I was little, and I will never, ever part with that book.
• “Mexico-based textile artist Victoria Villasana applies colorful embroidery designs to vintage black and white photographs of cultural icons.”
• Sort of book-related, and way too cute not to share: “Orlando Animal Shelter Sorts Dogs into Hogwarts Houses.”
• The Craft Industry Alliance went to the Fall Quilt Market and shares photos of all the goodies.
• Photographer Stephen Draschan captures museum-goers who accidentally match the artwork.
• Have you joined the Embroiderer’s Guild of America Stitch-a-Long Facebook group? You don’t need to be an EGA member to join, and the EGA posts a new free project every month. November’s project is a fun scissors case on counted canvas.

Video of the Week

I will be sharing my favorite gratitude songs all this month. I’ve had this on repeat today because it’s been that kind of week. Hard to listen to this without getting teary.

Well, hello there. We made it through another week. The weather has turned cold in Chicago, and I am fighting off a cold that keeps threatening to take over. I’m barely winning, for now. So, let’s stay inside and read stuff on the Internet! 😃😃

Here is my weekly round-up of needlework, art, and book news from around the web:

• Craftsy has a tutorial for a cute candy corn applique project that you still have time to finish before Halloween.
• Mary Corbett shares the art supplies she uses to create her embroidery designs.
• Jordan Nassar creates beautiful cross-stitched works of art based on patterns and colors of traditional Palestinian embroidery.
• Textile artist and weaver Anni Albers has a retrospective show at the Guggenheim Bilbao. You can view some of the works from the exhibit online.
• I love these: “Marathon Runner Creates Illustrated Maps of Running Routes Around the World.”
• Swoon. Book Riot has a list of “100 Must-Read Medieval Historical Fiction Novels.” I will need to live to 200 to read all the books I want to read.

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This song has been stuck in my head all day…

Friday Finds is my weekly round-up of needlework, art, and book news from around the web.

Here are this week’s links:

• Nordic Needle announced on Facebook that they are shutting down their bricks and mortar store. The online store will remain active, for now.
• “Russian fiber artist Krista Decor creates tulle embroidery that makes her detailed birds and flowers appear to be suspended in mid-air.”
• Book Riot has a list of the 50 best epic fantasy series. I love that they note whether all the books in the series have been published yet or not.
• The International Folk Art Museum in New Mexico has some quilt-themed coloring pages.
• Irem Yazici embroiders enchanting miniature landscapes and dream-like worlds.

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One of my happy songs…

Ah, another week has gone by already. I didn’t do any stitching, but I did finish rereading the Harry Potter series, participated in a panel discussion at a library conference, and went to a truly amazing concert.

But, here is this week’s roundup of needlework, art, and book news from around the web:

• “Discovery of vast treasure trove of fine textiles shows importance of fashion to Bronze Age Britons.”
• Create a needlepoint background with stencils.
• Book Riot recommends 15 podcasts for book lovers, and I hadn’t heard of most of them.
• I love these mixed-media Halloween projects from the back issues of Cloth Paper Scissors, especially the Edgar Allen Poe inspired shadow box.
• The Pineapple Stitchery is a mobile fabric shop housed in a vintage trailer.

Video of the Week

“Go” by Glen Phillips

Friday Finds is my weekly round-up of needlework, art, and book news from around the web.

Here are this week’s links:

• DMC has announced 35 new colors are coming!
• These needlepointers stitched 150 kneeler cushions for their church and each one is unique. What a neat project.
• “We were trying in our own little way to shed light on the idea that we are all one.” A group of quilters comes together to stitch an American flag.
• This 90-year-old woman is handpainting beautiful folk designs on the homes in her village.
•  “When we are involved in creativity, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.” Creativity as a wellness practice.
• Are rag rugs making a comeback?

Video of the Week

“Everybody ought to hug somebody at least once a day…” ((Hugs)) to all my readers and blog visitors this week…