Read more in the Daily Mail.
Great exhibition to appreciate other needle women of days gone by: Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts. 
This design is called COURTHOUSE STEPS
The trees outside the Blanton Museum of Art on the University of Texas at Austin got yarn bombed during the weekend of March 6th.Knitta Please and a team of over 140 Austin crafters covered each of the 99 trees in the Blanton’s Faulkner Plaza with knitting or crochet. The project, titled A Knitted Wonderland, is in collaboration with UT’s Blanton Museum of Art.
I dig it. But because it is a little too neat, orderly and matching, I don't absolutely LOVE it.
The Andean Tunic, 400 BCE–1800 CE
Featuring about thirty Andean tunics, the exhibition examines the form of the tunic, which held an important cultural place in Andean South America for centuries.
Some of these exquisite tunics were made of cotton from the plains near the Pacific and some of wool, from the llamas up in the Andes.
Through the Eye of a Needle: Stories from an Indian Desert (2005)
Directed by Charllotte Kwon, describes how a group of craftswomen from western India continue their tradition of embroidery.
This beautifully shot film was a pleasure to watch. I learned the history and process of the craft and the current successful cooperative these women are part of. What I wanted to learn more about, that the film did not address, was the art and the artists. The embroiderers were referred to as "artisans". Does that mean there was no innovation, only continuing the traditional patterns that their foremothers had always worked on?
This young girl was created by Vincent Van Gogh.
LOL:
"While our artists make every effort to insure accuracy, we cannot accept responsibility for the consequences of using fabric brain art as a guide for functional magnetic resonance imaging, trans-cranial magnetic stimulation, neurosurgery, or single-neuron recording."
