Victoria and Albert: Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Linky Party

Victoria and Albert color scheme by Clever Chameleon

This week’s colour scheme is one you can expect to see on quilts on Clever Chameleon a fair bit over the next two months. So I hope you like it! It is the colours of “Victoria and Albert”.

Back in  February, Island Batik sent me a package of fabric that I had to keep as a secret from you. It was a big secret too…. with 30 fabrics in the Victoria and Albert collection, it made for a biii-iiig parcel! This collection has officially launched now and you can find it on Island Batik’s page if you wish. Here is the pile of fabric I was given to play with!

Victoria and Albert collection

Today, let me show you some of my favourite fabric designs from this collection and then my finished Modern Winding Ways quilt.  And then join me for this week’s linky party…. let’s see what quilting colours everyone’s working on lately.

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The Red Buoy – Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Linky Party

The Red Buoy color scheme by Clever Chameleon

Colours good enough for Paul Signac are good enough for me!

On the weekend I was treated for my birthday with a ticket to the current exhibition at our state art gallery. This exhibition has my name all over it – it is called “Colours of Impressionism”. A collection of masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, this exhibition shows the progressive use of colour over time by Impressionist and then Neo-Impressionist painters.

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Modern Elementz – Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Link Party

Modern Elementz color scheme by Clever Chameleon

If you promise to show me yours, I’ll show you mine…..

I am in the planning and design phase of my next quilt project for Island Batik and I’m looking for the sweet spot where the available fabric, the design brief and my personal preferences intersect. The Island Batik theme for June is “Modern Batik” and the fabrics I have chosen are some of the fat eighths sent me from the Island Batik Elementz range. These fabrics were given to me for use in my role as an Island Batik Ambassador.

Island Batik Elementz fat eighths pack

For my colour palette, I have pulled the pinks, oranges, chartreuse greens (lime greens) and blue-greens from this collection. And a red. Namely. the colours in today’s Modern Elementz colour board at the top of this post. In all, I have cherry-picked 16 of the 28 fabrics in the collection and I have a good start on a design…. and it’s only the 5th of June! Ha!

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Beary Colourful BOM: A Little Bit Silly Purple Bear

Purple Bear of a Little Bit Silly by Clever Chameleon

I’m sure you know that it’s healthy to let your hair down once in a while. Well, let’s do that today and be just a little bit silly!

Have you got a friend who knows exactly how to make you smile when you think you’d rather be grumpy? Who won’t let you  indulge in the doldrums if there’s even a whiff of ridiculous about the situation? The Purple Bear is one of those people…. and he wants you to smile today! Please welcome June’s Purple Bear of A Little Bit Silly to our growing Beary Colourful family.

The sixth bear in the Beary Colourful Quilt BOM series is a bit of a clown. Totally harmless, but can always be relied upon to liven things up a little. Great to have around when things are a bit glum or the weather is gloomy. Or when you are feeling great too, for that matter. Add this fun bear to your collection for a touch of eccentric on your Beary Colourful quilt.

And then go check out the rest of the 2018 Color Challenge posts for other ideas of how to celebrate the colour purple and enter for June’s prize.

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