Braille for the sky

With a nod to Mo for inspiring the title of this post, here's where I am with the first of two "endpapers" for Moon Myth ...

The moon phases, not yet attached, were made by piercing handmade paper

http://imgoingtotexas.blogspot.com/2009/10/mother-of-invention.html

with a needle and then gently pushing the resulting shapes out ... 

creating softly feathered edges ...

The night sky was made from a thrift store linen dress which had bias-cut strips seamed together ...

I folded the cloth over and visibly basted two layers together with Jude's glue stitch worked in size 8 perle cotton, creating a wonderfully textured front ...

and (as always) a wild and crazy looking back ...

Don just walked in and said, "that's cool."

Yeah, I'm thinkin' it is, too.