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Nova Star - A Tribute to Those Souls Shining in their Stardust

Interestingly this is what happened this week "Israeli scientists become first to chronicle earliest stages of supernova Astronomers from Weizmann Institute observe a star in nearby galaxy Messier 101 explode and believe it left behind a new black hole We're all Stardust"

It is fun to create art. It normally goes on the wall. I love it when art is used in a practical fashion. I shared bags that people created using the wave landscape patchwork technique and today I am going to share pillows.

Well this time I thought that I had gone overboard with the technique.I almost decided not to complete it. BUT I do not give up, so I looked at it and looked again and came up with an interesting idea to complete it which I am working on now.

Now I have my fabrics in all the colors that I chose. I have put down on paper what I saw in my head. That accomplishes a number of things for me. I see a tangible color layout as I saw it in my head and while drawing the piece I get the "feel" of how the fabrics will flow along my drawn lines.

Designing the star. Whenever I create a new design I sketch it first. Rough sketches, at first, as the ideas come to me. Sometimes as I awaken with my first cup of coffee. I have small piles of scrap paper and pencils always within reach. I never know when an idea will come to me. I have notebooks which I transfer the ideas to afterwards so that I have a record of my creative process.

And then I saw a Nova. A bright light shattering into many many colors, greens and turquoises and lilacs and purples. That is the one for the making of a star.

This week I was choosing fabrics for a number of different techniques and saw many shortish thin strips in the pile. I sorted them into color families and saw that I had enough strips to create a strip quilted patchwork quilt from scraps.

I have joined late this year - 31 days of quilt related posts in March Igquiltfest2024.

Beauty can be found in almost anything if one looks for the shimmers of beauty in the small things.

I created a selection of fabric flowers, hand stitched only, for my winter slow stitch piece. Here is the first flower tutorial