Quilt: Transit Time, by Don Tuttle

Astronomy educator Don Tuttle of Elgin, IL, created the quilt Transit Time for the 2004 transit of Venus.  A talented and prolific quilt maker, he described the process at a talk (.mp3 audio recording, 7 minutes) presented in the planetarium of the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences in Peoria, IL, in 2004.

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