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February 5, 2019January 19, 2024

New Lunar Year, New Ambassador Year, New Fabrics, New Colours!

Fabric colours for 2019 at Clever Chameleon Quilting blog

Happy Chinese New Year 2019

Today, Tuesday February 5th, is Chinese New Year and also my 1st Island Batik Ambassiverary. 2019 is Year of the Pig and in the next few weeks we will have several cute piggy appliqués on the blog to celebrate. But first, we get to herald in the New Lunar Year with Colour & Inspiration Tuesday. The Chameleon thinks this is a very good sign for 2019!

The bronze pig sculptures in our Adelaide CBD. This little piggy is my favourite.

And today is not just any Colour & Inspiration Tuesday either. It is none other than the first opportunity in my blogging calendar for me to share with you about the 2019 Island Batik Ambassador year. If you read on, you will see that we going to have a lot of batik fun here this year! And there is also one major change in the program from last year, that I hope you will like.

As on previous occasions, there is also one set of pre-release fabrics in my new samples from Island Batik that is concealed for now. But I promise you, you are going to love my surprise fabrics come August. And I can let slip a little something about them today……. Shhhhh, don’t tell though, it’s our secret.

January 29, 2019January 19, 2024

Those Crazy Aussies: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Jacana colour scheme by Clever Chameleon

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. Oi, Oi, Oi!

This past weekend was our national holiday long weekend, with Australia Day on Saturday (the 26th and a Monday public holiday). So it only seems fitting to have a look at a few things uniquely Australian today.

Koala tangram appliqué at Clever Chameleon

The bird in our colour board today is a jacana. Like all Australian animals it is a little on the unique side, verging on eccentric. A bit like the critters on my Wild Things quilt. And it occurs to me, I never did get around to posting photoshoot pictures of my finished Wild Things Australian Tangram quilt from December, did I? So, since it’s on topic, let’s do that today too.

January 22, 2019January 19, 2024

Gingerbread Inspiration: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Gingerbread Snow globe cupcake colour scheme by Clever Chameleon

Sometimes it’s not about the colours….. (*shock*, I know!). Sometimes, an idea is so awesome, it would grab me in any colour. Today’s inspiration photo from rawpixel on Unsplash.com has me reeling with possibilities in both the kitchen and in the sewing room! All I did was type “gingerbread” into the search bar of Unsplash, and my world changed forever!

OK, so it’s probably not really quite that drastic, but there is definitely some fun to be had here!

While I process my newest ideas, and decide whether the gingerbread cupcake snow globe quilt squirrel is a chaser or a leaver… here’s something to keep you busy. We are now into the third week of the Island Batik Getaway blog hop. I hope you are noticing lots of new inspiring fabric collections in this hop that are getting your own creative juices flowing!

Today’s weekly Tuesday Inspiration post is a relatively simple affair – come and see the next five Island Batik fabric collections being showcased this week. Find out who scored the Chameleon’s inspiration feature spot from last week’s link up. And of course, link up this week and show us what you are working on. I hope I will see you at this week’s party.

January 15, 2019January 19, 2024

Paisley Park – Colour and Inspiration Tuesday

Paisley Park color scheme by Clever Chameleon

Are you ready for a trip to Paisley Park?

“Got your hat? Where’s your water bottle? Have you put sunscreen on?”…. Those are the questions of the day here….. 41C (105.8F) and UV index 13! Or perhaps where you are, a trip to the park requires a different sort of hat…. and a coat and scarf and boots….

Photo by Doug Kelley on Unsplash in similar colours to Paisley Park — If Paisley Park was a place, I reckon it would look like this…..

Depending on your perspective, Paisley Park may be either a cool relief from the summer heat or a bright spot in a cold day. Thankfully a trip to Paisley Park in Fabric Land is not weather dependent and the only thing you need to put on is your thinking hat!

What would you make from these pretty blue-greens and purples? That just might be the question you are asking yourself if you win some of this fabric from the Clever Chameleon. More about that in a moment!

January 8, 2019January 19, 2024

Peacock Parade: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday and Linky Party

Peacock Parade colour scheme from Clever Chameleon

Colour Inspiration Tuesday is back! There are New Fabrics in town! And there are Prizes to win!

Welcome to back to our Colour & Inspiration Tuesday routine with my most favourite inspiration of all! New batik fabrics!

It’s that time of year when the newest fabrics fluff up their feathers and put on their most extravagant of courting performances, targeting your hearts and your wallets for a new nest to live in. Fair warning – there are a lot of new pretties out there, and their covet-factor is sky high. Allow these hard-to-cut-into fabrics to come to roost at your place at your own peril!

But just looking can’t hurt, can it? Let’s go fabric-twitching to spot never-before-seen batik specimens! Follow me into the wild world of the latest Island Batik fabric releases if you dare….. For those of you intrepid enough to face the economic peril of spotting something you weren’t previously aware you neeeeeded, there are opportunities to win big, and inspiration to be had. Who’s with me?!