USA Space Shuttle

Last October, Robin Koehler queried the QuiltArt list to see if there was any interest in submitting quilts to the Dream Rocket project.  She was dreaming of honoring her grandfather, as he designed and built the LEM.  I learned that the LEM is the Lunar Exploration Module, the vehicle that first landed on the moon. Then I was fortunate to meet Robin during Quilt Market this past fall (click here for that post).


By Market, we were a team of 4: Robin, Chris Gilman, Katherine McNeese and myself.  We named ourselves the LEM-4 in honor of Robin's grandfather's work.  (Click here to read my blog on our group.)  We decided to split our 2-foot square quilt into 4 one-foot quilts (one for each of us) and came up with our theme -- a look at man's efforts to reach the stars. 

My quilt features the US Space Shuttle, honoring this amazing vehicle that travels to and from space regularly, taking astronauts, scientists and many experiments to the International Space Station.  I have been fortunate to meet not one, but two astronauts, both of whom have spent time on the shuttle and at the Space Station.

Chris' block features a hot-air balloon.
Katherin's block is of the early bi-wing airplanes (click here to see it).
Robin is designing a block featuring the LEM.
As our leader, Robin will be putting our four blocks together into one completed quilt.  Stay tuned for more photos & news of our LEM-4 quilt.

Be sure to check out the dream rocket website at

http://www.thedreamrocket.com/ 

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