This month’s Stitch Along theme is Under The Sea, but I wanted to relate it to our current travels in the desert southwest. @chameleonhound mentioned that Utah was once covered by an ocean. As we drove through Zion National Park, I could see the different layers of sediment laid down over time.
This includes an ammonite (or maybe a nautilus), many layers of felt rock, and a selection of embroidered fossils. It’s12" tall, 4" wide, and mounted atop a piece of mass produced “art” that came with our camper.
Note: I’m an artist, not a geologist, so layers and fossils may not be accurately portrayed. But who knows, maybe I got lucky.
I love this, too! I went searching for sea fossils in the middle of the hills just north of Fairbanks, AK years ago on a geology class trip. I only found a bivalve, but a few others found some awesome fossils. I gave up the search early because I was cold (we got a late season snow storm and the temp dropped. I wasn’t wearing snow boots, and my feet were freezing), but I wish I’d stuck it out. I love geology.
I love every single thing about this! I love that you latched onto the fact about Utah to connect it to your trip and turn it into a cool science-y piece to cover up a not as cool, (probably) non-science-y, cookie-cutter piece of camper art!
