Deep Space Quilts
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