1/19/2024 0 Comments Just get it done quilts![]() ![]() ![]() I am working on another mini birthday quilt, and I love playing with these. Here is another site to look up phases of the moon. The hospital was near a river, and I captured that in the watery reflection. It was also just a few minutes past the apogee of that night. It was one day off of the full moon, so I took a little artistic license. ![]() In addition to looking up weather, I looked up the phase of the moon on the date of her birth. I looked up the location, date, and time of her birth (12:36am). April 15 – Rachel 2022 Original design by Karen Kehl It is only 10 x 11 inches, but holds a lot of information. One of my favorites is this mini quilt made for my daughter’s birthday. The sky was clear (I looked up the weather that day on the National Weather Service history site) I also checked out how the clouds might have looked on the National Weather Service cloud chart. And the illuminated capital dome created a clear reflection in the lake. The buildings could be seen, but some seemed more clear than others. Madison 2021 Original design by Karen KehlĪt 8:00pm, the sun was setting, so the gorgeous colors were evident. I chose to depict 8:00pm, when we wrapped up our celebration and saw this scene as we headed home. I knew that I graduated on the last Saturday in June in 2007, and I used this perpetual calendar site to find the date. I used the Weather Underground weather history site to look up the times of dawn and sunrise, and then figured out colors from those times outward.Īnother version of a Special Day Quilt is Madison, which depicts the skyline of Madison, Wisconsin, across Lake Monona, on May 25, 2007, when I graduated with my PhD. According to NOAA, it includes Astronomical Dawn, the point where the sun starts lightening the sky Nautical Dawn, the point where there is enough light to start to distinguish objects and Civil Dawn, when objects are distinguishable, and Sunrise, when the sun appears above the horizon. I also learned that “dawn” is not a single time. The calculator has since been updated and the new NOAA Solar Calculator is more accurate. Originally, I looked this up on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Sunrise/Sunset Calculator. Longitude affects the time of events like sunrise and sunset. When you are doing a project like this, it is important to include the location. To be as accurate as possible, I looked up the times of dawn and sunrise in Madison, Wisconsin on June 18, 1988. I was particularly interested in “ time-slice” photographs by Dan Marker-Moore. This type of photo can be found on sites like Shutterstock (here is 1 more and a timelapse video from Shutterstock). First, I found some time lapse photography to get an idea of how colors in the sky change over time. ![]() To prepare for this quilt, once I decided on the day and time period I wanted to include, I did a lot of homework. There are 36 colors of Aurifil thread used for quilting. The quilt is further divided with quilting lines for every 5 minutes. There are 48 different colored strips, one for each 15 minutes. This quilt depicts the colors of the sky in Madison, Wisconsin from midnight until noon (ante meridiem or a.m.) on June 18, 1988, which was when my now husband and I started our romantic relationship. Ante Meridiem 2019 Original Design by Karen Kehl The first quilt I made using these principles was Ante Meridiem, which was made in 2019. I particularly like adding historical information including weather into these quilts. Over time, I have made quilts to commemorate anniversaries, birthdays, graduations and more. I really love to design quilts that have a story and are very personal. ![]()
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