{"id":2932,"date":"2014-10-09T07:27:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T12:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2014-10-09T13:38:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T18:38:58","slug":"total-eclipse-splash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=2932","title":{"rendered":"Total Eclipse, Splash"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got up really early yesterday morning to see the total eclipse of the moon. The sky was clear and the view was great! Then about half way through some clouds moved in and it was touch and go; but even then it was beautiful with the clouds all backlit. You can see the interesting reddish glow that was the shadow of the Earth.<\/p>\n

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Most of my pictures were pretty bad because it’s hard to hold the camera still enough but I’m sure you saw better ones on the news or online. At least I was there!<\/p>\n

Here’s my latest masterpiece!<\/p>\n

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“Splash” 40 x 40″. The timing was right and the quality good enough, I thought, to enter it into Quilt National this year. They require that the work be kept undercover so I usually don’t have anything available to enter. They did not accept it so I am free to show it now. I used a combination of hand dyed and commercially printed fabrics in this entirely pieced, larger than life toddler.\u00a0 I especially like the way the batik contains reflection colors and some white that looks like foamy waves. Most of the fabrics in the hair are printed “grass” fabrics. Heavily machine quilted with various threads to compliment the fabrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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