It started here.

I sewed as I watched and listened to the Artemis II crew do their moon flyby, thrilling me and everyone here on earth. This quilt is supposed to be paying homage to our Constitution at the ripe old age of 250, but now the red, white and blue also now honors these four astronauts, and will be linked in memory to this wonderful week. And that lower right photo? That’s at the Goldstone Deep Space Center in the high desert in California. We visited there last year, and were happy to find out that Goldstone was assisting with the tracking.

I did Yvonne’s trick (aptly her blog name is Quilting Jet Girl). When she slices the quarter-square triangles again, she carefully aligns the ruler with the seam to get a perfect perpendicular slice at that point. I followed this tutorial, a link courtesy of Carol, but there are many hourglass tutorials out there. After seeing Carol’s rendition of this quilt, I purchased a digital version of the pattern here.

Meanwhile, I keep watching the NASA Artemis II feed from Mission Control Center in Houston:

And sewing.

And watching, and sewing.

Finished the quilt top today, one day before the landing over here on the West Coast. Yes, I’ll be watching not only the live NASA feed, but also the skies to the West to see if I can see anything. I’m hopeful.

Stained glass view. It’s about 72″ square.

Happy Landing, Artemis II. Godspeed!