If it was the first of April I would think this news was part of a joke. However, it has been a few days since I saw this online and no one has retracted it so... NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg is scheduled to be the first quilter in space. (Or maybe the first to admit it.) When she is launched into space she is taking four fat quarters, needles and thread along to do some stitching. She was excited to learn that there might be some second hand fabric available to her on the space station since flight suits are worn for only one week and then discarded into a trash bin.
In addition to the regular challenges of quilting, Karen will have to keep carefull control of all thread bits so they don't float into someone's eyes. She will have to find some way to brace herself and her work too in the zero gravity. For the rest of the story click here. I am looking forward to seeing what she makes!
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