The Strips and Potential Additional Fabric for My Space Quilt

Hi everyone! Last week, the Artemis II mission ended. Even though I was really worried about the astronauts, I was really excited to see it from beginning to end. I am also really happy that everything went as smoothly as it did!

Prior to the beginning of the Artemis II mission, I decided to use my space themed cotton fabric in my stash to make a space themed quilt. I bought them a while ago but never used them. They came in fat quarter bundles and are great for making a quilt. I also talked about them in a previous post here.

When it was publicly announced that the Artemis II mission would be happening in 2026, I decided to begin making my quilt.

First thing I did was to cut all the fabric into 2 1/2 strips…

After years of attempting to make quilts with patterns and designs, I have finally accepted the fact the only design I can actually create is a log cabin quilt. So, for this quilt I decided to make a scrap quilt. What this means (To me in my quilting terminology) is all the fabric gets cut into small squares and then is sewn together to make blocks. I have already done this before with other types of fabric and scraps with a lot of success.

Since it is a really reliable quilt block design for me (And the blocks are more consistent) I decided to use it for this fabric. Also, I think the designs on this space fabric would look really nice mixed up together in smaller pieces.

I addition to the fat quarter bundle fabrics, I also added my only NASA designed fat quarter to the collection. I tried to find more of them, but I can’t find them at the Walmart I normally shop at or other places I have looked. Since this quilt is made in honor of the Artemis II mission, I decided to use it.

After I cut all the fat quarters into 2 1/2 inch wide strips, I decided to attempt to add a plain navy blue cotton strip to the quilt. This is what all the fabric designs looked like with the navy color, which is in the middle…

After taking this picture, and looking at it on and off for a few days, I decided not to include the navy fabric. It would’ve looked good, but I had a feeling that some of the fabric, specifically the watercolor style star field fabrics, would’ve looked better without it. I wanted to add the navy in order to help distribute the navy colors included in some of the designs more evenly throughout the quilt.

In hindsight, I am glad I didn’t add the navy. I like the way the quilt turned out and how all the designs look like without it. I think in a different quilt block design, the solid navy fabric would’ve worked perfectly to help distribute darker colors throughout the block. It just turned out that this scrap quilt worked better without it.

 

That’s all for now! Thank you for reading!