Once in a Blue Moon……

Sounds rare doesn’t it? Actually, blue moons (second full moons in a calendar month) happen surprisingly often. Like my crazy quilt ideas. 🙂 But full lunar eclipses are much rarer. And my glimpse of the blue moon lunar eclipse at the start of this month was even rarer again. The elusive blood blue moon. I had to stay up until nearly 1am to get a five minute glimpse of this lunar eclipse in the only break in the clouds all night. I was the only one in my household who bothered.

But it was totally worth it. Those five minutes were surreal, magical even. After taking a few amateur photos that turned out better than expected, I simply sat on the concrete path, still warm from the summer’s day, and watched. By myself, in the silence. Just me and the bizarre red moon. Until the clouds rolled back over and I went to bed feeling strangely moved.

Colour Inspiration Tuesday: Blood Blue Moon

A moment like that deserves to be quilted. I’m not even sure there is a way to capture that moment in fabric and thread, but I would love to try one day. The colours were phenomenal…. glowing reds and deep deep purples. How to capture the stillness, the bigness, the feelings of reverence…. I really don’t know.

While the possibility of a serious blood blue moon quilt continues to frequent the deeper recesses of my mind, I have also toyed with several more abstract and playful quilt ideas in today’s colours. Below is my current favourite: totally scientifically inaccurate and really only very loosely related to my lunar eclipse experience. But it appeals to me artistically and would never have existed if I hadn’t glimpsed that lunar eclipse.

Have you ever designed or made a quilt because a particular moment in time stuck in your memory and demanded that you quilt it? I’d love to know.

P.S. How are you going with your blue projects for the Monthly Color Challenge this month? The blue projects linky opens tomorrow at Patterns by Jen and will be open for the rest of the month. Don’t forget, link up your blue bear or other blue quilt block/entire quilt for a chance to win a $25 voucher from The Fat Quarter Shop. Good luck!

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