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If you don't know about and follow True Up, you should. It's the perfect place to get your virtual fabric fix and see the latest of what's going on in the world of textiles. 

I got a sweet mention in yesterday's installment of True Up's always reliably awesome Quilt Market redux. You can see it here along with other fun glimpses of the very latest fabrics that will be in stores soon.

I used to read a fair amount before having kids. Like actual novels, whatever those are.

Now for the most part, I'm busy doing other things up until bedtime. And when that time comes, I pretty much pass out. 

But within the last year, I've gotten a few great textile books that I love to thumb through right before turning out the lights. Because I typically do an intense round of creative brainstorming right in those moments of slipping into slumber, visually juicy books like these really help spark new waves of thought.

I have a few new ones on my wish list, but a couple that seem to have reserved spots on my nightstand longer than others are Kim Kight's A Field Guide to Fabric Design and Meller/Elffers' compilation of 200 years of textile design.