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POPSLinda M.Poole CPP Success I am so pleased to relay Linda's good news about her upcoming fabric line for Avlyn. She also gives me / Artquiltmaker.com some kudos, which I also appreciate.
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POPSK.S. Perino Pencil Roll K.S. Perino is one of the participants in the CPP, so I peruse her blog periodically to check out her prompt responses. As I was doing that this morning, I saw hat she had made a pencil roll. I have seen the pattern for pencil rolls on the Pink Chalk Studio website and Julie over at High Fiber Content even made me one for my birthday last year. I really like the pencil rolls and have been contemplating expanding the pattern a little to accomodate knitting needles. This pencil roll is one of the best that I have seen. First, it is gorgeous. Next it is even more useful because of the little zippered pouch that the artist added (note to self: learn to put in zippers!). Finally, the little details such as the fabulous machine quilting and the little charms on the ends of the ties really make the piece. I am thinking that one of these would be great to replace the ziploc bag in which I carry my PITT pens around.
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POPSNice Blog Found Love the circles and also the post about binding about binding as the new yoga.
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POPSTabbloid Looks like an HP product, but it could also be an interesting way to create newsletters out of web materials.
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POPSDear Jane by Minka I have been, as I may have mentioned looking through the Dear Jane blocks various groups of Janiacs have posted on Flickr. The two largest groups are the Dear Janes and Dear Baby Jane (http://www.flickr.com/groups/dearbabyjane/). It is amazing how many blocks these ladies have created.I am in awe of them. I admired one particular member and found her blog. She has some history of her Dear Jane work, a link to which is below.
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POPSCodex Sinaiticus While it is fabulous to be able to get news in a second and wonderful to view online albums of photos from friends, one of the best parts of the Internet and its functionality is getting access to materials to which ordinary people would never have access. The project to digitize the Codex Sinaiticus has been several years in the making and it is finally coming online this week. While most people won’t be able to read the ancient text, having access and being able to puzzle over the words yourself without an intermediary provides the opportunity to translate the Bible yourself and make your own interpretation.
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POPSThe Purpose of Blog Comments? I agree with Mimi in that I don't put my work out there for criticism. I am happy to take comments, but I do my work for me. I love sharing it, but I am my own best critic and don't need others. I love it that people from all over the world and friends I don't see very often can see what I am doing and keep up. I heard a great quote while I was away: Creativity is an Expression of Joy. The world, I think, needs less criticism and more support for creativity.
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POPSDots in Bird Form I need more dots like a need a hole in the head, but the web is a great thing, because I can admire them without buying! Deirdre sent me this picture. I can't see the dots very well, but I like the relationship of birds and sticks to the background.
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POPSTulips in Boston Boston's Beacon Hill will be hosting a garden tour this weekend. This was one of the photos included in the Boston Globe article.
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POPSI Know What I Saw, But What Was It? Search Engines are great for textual data. You can usually find something on your topic, if you describe it the right way. Not so with pictures. A variety of organizations have been working for years on searching pictures. Nothing is quite ready for primetime and you still have to tag the pictures so people can search the tags. PicAnswers has created a site that allows you to post pictures and get answers to what they are: a human search engine! Perhaps librarians will come back in vogue.
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POPSMash-up Gone Crazy EveryBlock has the potential to become one of the greatest information sources of all time. They are taking data that people really want and putting it on a map. They are using reports and statistics that are already gathered and putting them together so you can look at your neighborhood in new ways. Tara Calishan has written a great article about them at her site and they really do answer their email, if you contact them.
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POPSBullseyes Julie has her Bullseyes up on her blog. I am amazed at how similar they look to mine, but still different. I do like the target motif in Julie's Seeing Red and will have to try that out when I get my current bullseye squares back.
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POPSQuilter's Podcast I knew that Annie did podcasts, but I came across them just now and thought I would make a note of them for the future.
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POPSCircles I admire circle quilts. This one is nice. I like the way the circles aren't exactly in the center, though I think I would like a quilt with circles exactly in the center.
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POPSJennifer New - More Information If you haven't read the posts about Visual Journaling on http://artquiltmaker.wordpress.com, you are missing out. Go there and search for visual journaling or use the tag cloud. Jennifer New wrote a book about visual journaling in 2005, which really inspired the work of Artquiltmaker's writer. Here is her website and further information.
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POPSPuzzles I am a puzzle fan and never have enough time to do them. Here is a site that might give me more access when I am on the go. Take a look.
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POPSWho Owns What Another research tip for checking out hte owner of a website. If you want to go further you still have to get a subpoena.
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POPSPDF vs iPaper PDF is so ubiquitous that I wonder if anyone can break their monopoly. Still I am glad someone is trying. Check it out.
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