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[i]My latest art quilt is Doug Hurley's SpaceX crew photo! I used a picture of Earth he took from ISS as inspiration for the background. Our son Jack proposed the idea of making Doug B&W with only the flag on his shoulder colored. Perfect! Medium: fabric and thread, 21.5" square.[/i]
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T O P I C R E V I E WRobert PearlmanFrom former NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg (via Twitter): My latest art quilt is Doug Hurley's SpaceX crew photo! I used a picture of Earth he took from ISS as inspiration for the background. Our son Jack proposed the idea of making Doug B&W with only the flag on his shoulder colored. Perfect! Medium: fabric and thread, 21.5" square. For those not familiar with Nyberg's previous work: 'Made in space!' Astronaut sews dinosaur toy from station scraps (2013)Astronaut sews starry block in space, invites quilters to add more (2013)Astronaut's sewn-in-space star shines at quilt festival (2014)Robert PearlmancollectSPACE Astronaut-artist Karen Nyberg unveils quilt portraits of first women to fly in spaceThe 50th woman to fly into space has paid tribute to the first woman and first American woman to do so with a pair of original works celebrating the first 60 years of women in space.Former NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg was at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida on Thursday (Aug. 17) to unveil her portraits of Soviet-era cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and American astronaut Sally Ride. The public reveal was held under the retired space shuttle Atlantis.
My latest art quilt is Doug Hurley's SpaceX crew photo! I used a picture of Earth he took from ISS as inspiration for the background. Our son Jack proposed the idea of making Doug B&W with only the flag on his shoulder colored. Perfect! Medium: fabric and thread, 21.5" square.
For those not familiar with Nyberg's previous work:
Astronaut-artist Karen Nyberg unveils quilt portraits of first women to fly in spaceThe 50th woman to fly into space has paid tribute to the first woman and first American woman to do so with a pair of original works celebrating the first 60 years of women in space.Former NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg was at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida on Thursday (Aug. 17) to unveil her portraits of Soviet-era cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and American astronaut Sally Ride. The public reveal was held under the retired space shuttle Atlantis.
The 50th woman to fly into space has paid tribute to the first woman and first American woman to do so with a pair of original works celebrating the first 60 years of women in space.
Former NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg was at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida on Thursday (Aug. 17) to unveil her portraits of Soviet-era cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and American astronaut Sally Ride. The public reveal was held under the retired space shuttle Atlantis.
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