Deep Space Quilts

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Stellar Nursery

54" x 53"

Completed in 2008

This quilt was inspired by a NASA photo called Mountains of Creation,  which lies at the eastern edge of the giant stellar nursery W5, about  7000 light years from the constellation Cassiopeia.   I attempted to properly represent the coloration and placement of the gas clouds and even some of the stars.

Sky Horse

43" x 48"

Completed in 2014

Inspired by NASA online photos of The Horsehead Nebula.  I painted the rays of color surrounding the gas clouds and stars that make  up the Horsehead Nebula and the gas cloud is a large Angelina Fibers  applique that I covered with black veiling and quilted down. Then I free  motion bobbin thread embroidered the horse configuration.  The gas clouds look very like

 Spiral Gallaxy Number 3

41" x 50"

Completed in 2016

This is my third attempt to make a quilt inspired by the gorgeous Spiral  Galaxies pictured in NASA's website.  Rather than try to represent a  specific spiral galaxy, I chose several of their non-copyrighted  photographs of different spirals to pattern my spiral galaxy after.   This is a whole cloth quilt using Angelina Fibers representing the gas