NASA Inspires Your Crafty Creations for World Embroidery Day

It’s amazing what you can do with a little needle and thread! For #WorldEmbroideryDay, we asked what NASA imagery inspired you. You responded with a variety of embroidered creations, highlighting our different areas of study.

Here’s what we found:

Webb’s Carina Nebula

hThis embroidered image shows the Carina Nebula captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The image is framed in black. At the center a circular piece of art appears outlined in white. At the top of the circle, the thread is dark blue on the left. As you travel down white stars appear in lighter shades of blue. In the middle threads turn to dark black, red and orange to signify the nebula’s gas-like structure.ALT

Wendy Edwards, a project coordinator with Earth Science Data Systems at NASA, created this embroidered piece inspired by Webb’s Carina Nebula image. Captured in infrared light, this image revealed for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth. Credit: Wendy Edwards, NASA. Pattern credit: Clare Bray, Climbing Goat Designs

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