Mr Blue Sky

Sun is shinin' in the sky, there ain't a cloud in sight.

It's stopped rainin', everybody's in a play.

And don't you know it's a beautiful new day.

Aurifil's September designer is Kimberly Einmo and she designed to us a FABuLOus block called 'Mr Blue Sky'. While sewing her block she listened music by Electric Light Orchestra. I must admit I haven't heard their 'Mr Blue Sky' song before, until yesterday when I popped up on Youtube.

When I made Kimberly's block I learnt many other new things...

First I haven't before sewed HST's using rectangles. I recognized that it's a nice method... I got very precise HST squares!

Then I decided to choose colors for my block according to sapphire... and naturally I first began to think of different kind of blue shades...

BUT when  I googled sapphire I learnt that it belongs to a large group of gemstones called corundum... and it can be any color!... except if it's red, then it's ruby!! How odd it is that!?!

Anyway I decided to use blue fabrics, because this is Mr BLUE Sky block;o)

Before I sewed the pieces together, I checked the fabrics one more time...

Hmm... I think I'm going to fall in love soon... although it's blue...

One more thing, which inspired me to chose a sapphire theme for this block was that I read more about the sapphires:

a round, oval, glossy sapphire is called a cat-eye. The cat-eye effect is clearly seen, when the light hits on the surface of the sapphire. The gem reflect the light like a cat's eye in the dark.

Oh & Ah...   'Mr Blue Sky' ... ;o)

... and all nine Aurifil (gems) blocks...

Oh, I think we'll have now a little time to sing together... all together ;o)

Mr. Blue you did it right, but soon comes Mr. Night,
creepin' over, now his hand is on your shoulder,
never mind I'll remember you this way...