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Stitch Your Art Out! Have Fun Learning To Combine Art With Embroidery


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ Young fairgoers can have fun learning to combine art with embroidery at a Friday, August 5 Inspiration Station in the Garrett Building at the Sonoma County Fair. From 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., youth can choose a burlap “canvas,” draw a design and embroider it. Participants will start with a running stitch. More stitches can be added depending on


the attendee’s age and ability. No advance registration or materials fee is required for the workshop. Space is limited. Children 7―12 have free admission to the fair on Fridays. For the third year, this Inspiration Sta- tion is directed by Redwood Stitch- ers. Last year the number of youth exhibits with embroidery more than doubled the previous year. This year


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Redwood Stitchers will again en- courage youth to enter their embroi- dery projects in the fair. For more information, email: redwoodstitch- ers@gmail.com or phone: 707-584- 5852.


Redwood Stitchers is a chapter


of The Embroiderers’ Guild of America, a nonprofi t educational organization.


Idea by Brent Farris from KZST. Drawn & edited by Paul Doyle


Upbeat in Amsterdam, Netherlands! First Fun Facts About


FIRST UP! Planet Amsterdam: ~ Earth, Europe.


Amsterdam is the Netherlands’ capital, known for its artistic heri- tage, elaborate canal system and narrow houses with gabled facades, legacies of the city’s 17th-century Golden Age. Its Museum District houses works by Rembrandt and Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum and modern art at the Stedelijk. Cycling is key to the city’s character, and there are over 250 miles of cycle paths.


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In seventy-fi ve years the human heart pumps 3,122,000,000 gallons of blood, enough to fi ll in oil tanker over 46 times!


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