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The real episode 99! I'm back from vacation and have some quilty updates, life updates, and a whole lotta talk about books.

In this episode:

Colleen Morris-Wilson, fabric artist, quilt show at the Art Scene in Atrium Gallery, City of Ottawa, Canada, October 27-November 26, 2012. Ben Franklin Place, 101 Centrepointe Dr. http://ottawa.ca/en/rec_culture/arts/gallery_exhibit/atrium/index.html

Craftsy classes at www.craftsy.com.

Books I've been reading:

• The Help (Kathryn Stockett)

• A Trick of the Light (Louise Penny)

• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Jamie Ford)
• Death on Beacon Hill, Nell Sweeny series (P.B. Ryan)
• The Cat, The Quilt, and The Corpse; a "Cats in Trouble" series (Leann Sweeney)
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie; Flavia DeLuce series (Alan Bradley)
• Chicken Boy (Frances Dowell)
• Ties that Bind (Marie Bostwick)
• Falling to Pieces: A Quilt Shop Murder; Shipshewana Amish Mystery #1 (Vannetta Chapman)
• Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)

The Black Family Dinner Quilt Cookbook: Health Conscious Recipes and Food Memories, with Dorothy Height & The National Council of Negro Women, Inc., 1993) The Quilter's Hall of Fame: 42 Masters Who Have Shaped Our Art, edited by Merikay Waldvogel, Rosalind Webster Perry, and Marian Ann J. Montgomery, PhD (Voyageur Press, 2011) (Quilter's Hall of Fame website: http://www.quiltershalloffame.net)

Quilt National 2011: The Best of Contemporary Quilts (Lark Crafts, 2011)

Listener Rose's recommended link to Elaine Lipson's 2008 article on the Slow Cloth Manifesto: http://handeyemagazine.com/content/slow-cloth