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Rainbow Retreat – Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Linkup

Rainbow Retreat colour scheme by Clever Chameleom

My First Quilt Retreat!

Last weekend I went on my very first quilt retreat.  About 3.5 hours out of Adelaide, in Bordertown, not far from where I grew up. I have to say,  I had the best time. I definitely could get used to sewing all hours in fun company while someone else manages the housework and cooking! 🙂

The retreat was called a Pick-A-Case Mystery Retreat, and was run by the lovely Judy of News by Jude. Everyone on the retreat received a different quilt to sew, mostly pre-cut. What a lot of work Judy puts into this! The fabrics in the colour board above were supplied for my mystery quilt, along with a white-on-white print. Do you want to know what I made?

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Beary Colourful BOM: Always Growing Yellow-Green Bear

 Yellow-Green Bear of Always Growing by Clever Chameleon

The Always Learning Green Bear from May has been exploring his family tree and he has discovered a cousin! Please welcome the aspirational July Yellow-Green Bear to the Beary Colourful family.

If you spend much time with young children on a regular basis, you will know that they love to think that they are “Big”. And also that they are “Bigger”. Bigger than their siblings….bigger than their peers….. bigger then that mark on the wall that shows how tall they used to be. 

Growth charts never really go out of fashion, do they? The motifs on them might change but the very simple act of repeatedly measuring yourself on the wall never grows old. And getting taller is linked to some pretty exciting milestones. Especially if you are aiming to beat a height restriction for that ride at the theme park. 120cm was the obsessed-over mark by my kids, thanks to the waterslide at the local pool. Thankfully, for my sanity, my youngest child is very tall for his age!

So, since I strongly associate the colour yellow-green with fresh growth, the seventh bear in the Beary Colourful Quilt BOM series celebrates all things growing. With a garden on his tummy, a growth chart by his side and an aspirational posture, this bear expects bigger and better things. Or a splat in the eye. Hahahaha, poor bear; I think he’s safe enough with no birds on this quilt. Keep on striving, little bear!

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Bring Out Your Bears!! Join the Teddy Bears’ Picnic.

Teddy Bears' Picnic at Clever Chameleon

The 2018 Monthly Color Challenge is half done, and so are our Beary Colourful Bears. I think that calls for a mini-celebration, don’t you? So, let’s have a Teddy Bears’ Picnic!

Are you doing the Beary Colourful BOM with me? Want to, but need a little nudge? Well, here we go! I would love to see your bears. Even if I have already seen them before. I think they’d look great en masse so let’s give it a try it shall we?

Purple Bear of a Little Bit SillyAt the bottom of this post is a link party. A Teddy Bears’ Picnic. If you have completed any or all of the Beary Colourful Bears, you are invited to link up a picture of each one. And for each bear you link up to my Teddy Bears’ Picnic, you will receive an entry into a random prize draw. Two lucky bears will be offered an exclusive quilted postcard from the Chameleon and me, to be sent anywhere in the world.

I know, right!!?!! Pick yourself up off the floor! Exclusive. Dare I say….. collectable?!! hahahaha

Tokens they may be, but sincerely meant and all yours. Stitched into them will be all of my huge appreciation of everyone who has been a part of this very fun BOM journey so far.  And if you win, you’ll still have your postcard once you’ve gifted your Beary Colourful quilt.  🙂 Or you can use it as a unique gift card with your quilt if you are that way inclined.

So if you’ve made a bear or plan to soon, join our picnic. Show us your bears!

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Leaf-tastic Yellow-Green: Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Link Party

Leaftastic greens color scheme by Clever Chameleon

July is coming! Are you ready!? No?! Join the club and bunker down  – it’s coming anyway! At least that means the next Beary Colourful BOM Bear is on his way.

I am noticing that all my Northern Hemisphere blogging friends are posting lots of pretty Spring and Summery-looking garden posts. Rays of sunshine in my cold grey wintery days. Sadly, our recent wintery days are probably not actually as grey as they should be – we really could do with a lot more rain before Spring arrives to turn the neighbourhood yellow-green again.

preying mantis
Yellow-green and preying for rain…..

Yellow-Green for July

July will undoubtably be chilly here, but I am warming to Spring early this year. Because July’s Color Challenge colour is yellow-green, a colour that always reminds me of fresh growth. So July’s Beary Colourful Bear will be yellow-green and celebrating all things growing like a garden in the Spring. Don’t forget to head over to Facebook for some sneak peeks of July’s bear over the next few days. And I might try to put them on Instagram this month too – look at me growing and getting all tech savvy!  *lol snort* Watch @cleverchameleon to see if I succeed!

And read on for reminders about June’s Color Challenge prize link-up, the fun features from last week’s Colour Inspiration Tuesday link-up and your chance to woo the Chameleon this week with your own quilts.

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A Two-Faced Pumpkin Quilt Facing Tutorial (and Modern Winding Ways finished)

Modern Winding Ways quilting detail

Island Batik ambassador button

Modern Winding Ways is finished. 

Quilted, faced (invisibly bound) and hung. 🙂 And de-fluffed with several passes of a sticky clothes-lint roller. Crikey, does black fabric show batting lint or what!!?! So, that is it – my June Island Batik Ambassador challenge crossed off the list. Happy days. 

If you’d like to follow the whole design and construction journey for Modern Winding Ways, you can find out more about the design stage here and the flimsy stage here. Today we are just going to have a little look at how I finished it. Including a quick tutorial on how to face a quilt, with a bonus little side project. 

Two-faced Pumpkin quilt pad/table protector

Ummmmm….  I said “face a quilt”….. not “put a face on a quilt”.

A two-faced quilt?….. sinister…… Or should that be a pumpkin with a face on his back side?…… ? *snigger* 

Don’t mind me. Long week, small children. Just roll your eyes and join me for the Two-faced Pumpkin facing tutorial. An easy facing method to make you smile. And if you’d like to make a Two-faced Pumpkin table protector like mine as a practice piece, then be my guest. Everything you need to know is here. The fabrics for both projects featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik.

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