FFFC #37 Outer Space/ "Did You See This?/ Meet Me in 60,000 years...2287"

Outer Space ...I posted Malacandra(Mars quilt description from CL Lewis book
Perelandra)an already finished quilt & fit the theme. My plan was to finish a
new FFFC...well it's almost finished after a few distractions....I thought I
would have it finished before the new FFFC #38 came out... very soon..The name
is "Did You See This?" or "Meet You in 2287" (60,000Years). The name alone
should get some interest going!!

The idea for this FFFC came from an e-mail telling me to watch the sky's for the month of August. On August 27th Mars will be close to the Moon and we could see it ...well we had a cloudy night. Well I did see this very bright "Star" Mars next to the Moon during August evenings. This will not happen again for 60,000 years...

I printed the words from my computer onto fabric and next cut the large circles..the Moon and Mars...the Earth much smaller(only 34,649,589 miles from Mars) has a sketch of the United States..these were attached to the background fabric with an iron-on and various fringed yarn. The MilkyWay across the quilt is angelina fibers attached with Misty Fuse.A few silver stars attached with beads and quilted stars with silver metalic thread.I wrapped the front fabric to the back for the edge finish...edges not too streight...OK for the universe!!!