If you like quilts and trees, you’ve hit the jackpot this week.

• Sketching trees.
• Beautiful quilts on Instagram.
• Another stroll with Nathalie through Jersey City.
• Challenge blocks and quilts. These always inspire me.
• Charming vintage photographs.
• The story of Zippy the raccoon.
• Learn about the Lake County California Quilt Trail.
• An artist describes her process and her journey toward becoming a children’s book illustrator.
• Plein air sketching. I have been wanting to do this for years. Maybe someday soon. Those little clamps look very handy.
• Do you like to cross stitch? Here are some free patterns. (Click on the titles under each design.)
• Unusual trees. Maybe we could sketch these? (If you do, post them on your blog or social media and leave a link in the comments below.)
• The Adoration of the Magi. I’ve always loved this painting. One year I sent out Met Christmas cards with a detail from this painting. I never realized it was painted by Hieronymus Bosch.