Space Shots

I had a wonderful idea this morning while working on a quilt block. It's a sort of a star block, and while I was sewing it, I really wasn't thinking about what I was doing, so I sewed a whole section upside-down. Instead of keeping my attention on my sewing, I was pondering how to execute my idea for Peace Quilts for the Journal Quilt Challenge. I had Moodscapes (satellite radio channel) on and was really in the zone. After picking out my seam and just as I was beginning to restitch it, a piece started playing that caught my attention. I looked up; the info on the tv screen told me that this was a piece by Anuvida and Nik Tyndall called "A Dream in the Sky." I had previously been watching a show on the Science Channel that was showing spectacular shots from the Hubble telescope. One, I remembered, was called Pillars of Creation. Another was The Cat's Eye Nebula.

What wonderful material, it suddenly occured to me, for Peace Quilts. These views of the Universe should point out to us just how tiny we are in relationship to the cosmos. If we blow ourselves up and pollute ourselves to extinction, the Universe will go on as if we were never here. Maybe we'll make a tiny blip on the big picture, but the Force that keeps the cosmos in motion will morn our passing and start another project, perhaps. That Force sent us a messenger a few years back to show us the way to Peace, and we all know how that went. So I think it's up to us now.

But I digress. I've decided that I'll use the shots from Hubble and other space shots as inspiration for my Peace Quilts. Now all I have to do is narrow the choices down to 12. The above shot of the Cat's Eye Nebula, which could be a Peace Rose, is definitely a keeper.