Last year when I attended the Quilt Festival I saw that they were inviting everyone to participate in a block challenge with NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg. Karen sewed a star themed quilt block while in space onboard the International Space Station and they wanted everyone to sew a star block and mail it in to be included in a quilt with her block. The blocks were supposed to be 9.5" unfinished.
I sewed a block and mailed it in last summer, so of course I couldn't wait to see the astronomical quilts. It turns out that they received over 2,000 star blocks and made 28 quilt panels! There were also several scrapbooks of stars at the festival that didn't make it into the quilts... they were received late or were the wrong size, etc. The scrapbooks also included letters from people that they received with the quilt blocks.
I tried to take a picture of all of the panels at the Quilt Festival because I know that everyone was dying to look for their specific stars. It took me over half an hour to find my star- my sister eventually found it on our second time walking by all the quilts! I apologize for the angles of some of the pictures, I had to photograph around other people who were enjoying the exhibit.
You may download these pictures for your own personal use (and bragging rights). If you want to use the pictures online or in your personal blog, please give me credit and link back to this website.
Now, the pictures! This was the main star panel. The star in the center of the panel (the blue one with the red and white stripes radiating from it) is the one that Karen Nyberg sewed on the ISS.
This was the other featured panel- it had blocks all from kids!
In no particular order, here are the other 26 panels- see if you can find your star!
This panel is obviously one of the coolest ones because it has my star! It is in the second row from the bottom, 7th star from the left- it is yellow and blue.
No comments:
Post a Comment