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July 21, 2020January 19, 2024

Gettin’ on your Goat! Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Getting on your Goat colours at Clever Chameleon

Here we goat again

Just a quick post to say “Hi, hope you are having a great week!”, introduce the Year of the Goat block for the Lunarcy quilt and say “See you again in a fortnight”.

Goats are not allowed in Arkaroola – they are a ecological disaster in arid Australia. But the Chameleon quite likes goats – they are slightly insane, very clever…. and also quite tasty. So I thought I had better show off my goat appliqué while we are away from the wilderness sanctuary. Here he is…..

Goat appliqué for the Lunarcy quilt at Clever Chameleon Quilting

Being on the road this week, I’ve goat to admit that I didn’t get time to organise features from the past week, or to organise a fresh party. So you’ve just got the parts of Colour & Inspiration Tuesday that I could organise ahead offline. Butt…. we’ll have a big knees up when the Chameleon is back at his post in a fortnight, so I’m relying on you to keep adding to our party in the meantime.

July 14, 2020January 19, 2024

Dragon On: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Campfire colour board at Clever Chameleon, Photo by Timothy Meinberg

I’m on fire!

I’ve finished three assignments in one week and I’ve sewn down the remaining flowers onto the Lunarcy quilt. I even have a plan for finishing the flower centres, I think. Everything is on schedule for the Chameleon to be able to go AWOL for a few days very soon, touch wood!

Maybe my luck is holding because it is the week to unveil the Year of the Dragon appliqué block. My birth sign, and my favourite block on the Lunarcy quilt. Here he is…. one over-spec’d lizard.

The Chameleon knows a kindred spirit when he sees one. 😀

July 7, 2020January 19, 2024

Guiding Lights: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Lighthouse colour board at Clever Chameleon

It’s the school mid-year break, so I have plaaaaans!

Since my days have been gifted back to me for a fortnight, I am going to …

finish all the appliqués on the Lunarcy quilt!
get ahead on my study assignments!
finally answer the comments from my last two posts! Got a bit behind there, sorry.
do more exercise!
win the lottery!
bake a whole batch of Sky Pies for the freezer!

LOL. All seriously and increasingly unlikely, but a Chameleon can dream. Since I don’t buy lotto tickets, that second-to-last one can probably be safely ruled out. But some things have to happen, so they will somehow happen. Particularly, I want the Lunarcy flimsy finished before school goes back. I’m headed in the right direction: here’s this week’s finish, the Year of the SSSSnake block.

Snake appliqué at Clever Chameleon Quilting

Mr(s?) Snake has the same shape of eye as everyone else on this quilt, but somehow (s)he looks uniquely angry. Or perhaps up to no good. Definitely not happy. I guess I got it at the wrong angle? Or perhaps just shaped it too flat? Don’t know, I don’t think it looked like that on my blueprints. Never mind, it doesn’t matter, the quilt is coming along nicely overall. One animal’s strange expression isn’t going to stand out when it’s finished, surely. It will be fine!

June 30, 2020January 19, 2024

Grumpy Sunflowers: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

I was going to pass. No blogging this week….

The Chameleon was just not in the mood. Grumpy. Not enough sewing, for one. My laptop ate my homework for another (no joke, literally corrupted my assignment during the last save, between proofread and submit….(&*$%@!!!) and we are all suffering varying degrees of end-of-school-term-itis here, etc etc. Nothing serious. Just pecked to death by the gloom duck, even after hubby helped me retrieve *most* of my assignment from wherever it is that corrupted files go to die.

But then I read through the link ups at last week’s Colour & Inspiration Party and felt sooo much better. Little rays of sunshine everywhere, encouraging the Chameleon to lighten up.

From this…. (perhaps not really quite this bad!)…..

To this….. (also maybe not quite this sunny, but you get the idea).

And, I thought, if I needed a bit of eye-candy to help get things going in the right direction again, then maybe so does at least one of the Chameleon’s quilty friends. So, the Chameleon is showing up and getting on with it. I have actually finished the next block on the Lunarcy Quilt (Year of the Horse). Done in advance, as I knew this week wouldn’t likely be pretty, even before I naively underestimated the curve balls. Thankfully I worked really hard last week to get ahead. And of course, when all else fails we can always Party! 😀

June 23, 2020January 19, 2024

Winter Solstice: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Moth at Arkaroola colour board at Clever Chameleon

Desert winters are nothing if not unpredictable

Winter is a funny thing in the desert. The nights are mostly bitterly cold, while the days are pleasantly warm. But very occasionally we get a wind blowing in with heat from somewhere, and the night can stay ‘balmy’ for many hours after sunset. We had one of those evenings on Friday night. While the freezing cold nights (think frozen water pipes) are bug-free, warmer evenings bring small collections of brave new winter visitor species we haven’t seen before. Mostly lazy moths decorated in interesting patterns, like this pretty little thing that reminds me of a seventies carpet rug.

On a tree or a bush, I reckon this little guy could teach the Chameleon a thing or two about camouflage. Instead he seemed to be taking lessons from the Chameleon on standing out. Why let all that wonderful patterning go to waste?

What a load of……

Ummmm….. Ox?

Year of the Ox that is. I’m halfway through the sewing of the Lunarcy quilt and still accelerating. You will have to forgive me if next week is a bust though, as the kids have an itinerant teacher visit for the next few days. All bets are off as to what will or won’t get done.

But, as promised, the top half of the Lunarcy quilt is done this week (except the flower centres). Also, another promise: I am not going to beguile you further with insect stories today. Ok, maybe one butterfly birth. But nothing scary or creepy. How about a short walk around the southern side of Griselda Hill into a slightly damp microclimate instead?