The patchwork blankets depict astronauts, rockets, capsules and bootprints, as well as — perhaps surprisingly — a few ...

I have no idea what the Pennsylvania maker of the Sunflowers Quilt (1860-80) knew or didn’t know about him, but the artist did know sunflowers and what seem more like buttercups in the border.

Some 700 blankets fill a timber-frame barn attached to her 18th-century York farmhouse.