Sawtooth Star Started

 

For this month's BAMQ BOM which is a Sawtooth Star, I was inspired to try to make a combination Snail's Trail/Sawtooh Star block. I saw a version of this block called a Woven Star, in friend Jaye's Star Sampler quilt, and there's a tutorial here that she had linked to.

Doing the first part first, before cutting out anything else.

Why did I make this so small to start with? Who knows, but it looks cool.

Am I wishing I'd followed the helpful tutorial now, instead of making up my own version? Maybe, we shall see.

I like how complicated and layered this is looking. 

Now on to the rest of the block.

Friday Night Lights

 

Friday Night Lights-Aurora version! No editing (except for the built-in cell phone camera editing). My phone has an automatic night camera setting, which is a 3 second exposure. We could see the color slightly with our own eyes, it was really different than the usual look of the sky on a clear night. When I saw this color in this first picture,  I almost burst into tears. I've never ever thought I'd get to see the Northern Lights. And just getting this little bit of it here at home, was overwhelming and so cool.

Over the next couple hours I kept going back out on the deck to take more pictures and was so excited to see how much the color changed. 

I like this one with the yellow-ish light on the trim of the roofline.

It really went through a cycle of different purples and magenta almost fuchsia. (I can never ever spell fuchsia right the first time!)

Deep magenta! And it was finally time for me to go to sleep at 1am. So I missed whatever came next. Unfortunately the next two nights we got nothing down here, so I'm super pleased that it was so clear out on Friday night. 

Now I really want to go to Norway even more to see the Northern Lights without the aid of a camera.

Stars For San Bruno

 My friend Jaye is making quilts for a few of the people who survived the San Bruno gas explosion but lost everything in the fire.  She asked for quilt blocks that were yellow stars on dark blue backgrounds.

 I hand-drafted these (thanks to the degree angles on my Omnigrid ruler), and cut them out of fused yellow fabric.  I just didn't feel like piecing for some reason.

 I zig-zagged the edges just to be sure.  I never trust fusible completely.  Unless of course if it is for sticking something to the ironing board....forever!

 I think I liked this one better, the two fabrics combined made me thinking of Van Gogh's Starry Night a little bit.

I can't wait to see how the quilts turn out, she's almost got one whole quilt top put together.