Blossom Batiks Splash: Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Link Party

Blossom Batiks Splash color scheme by Clever Chameleon

Teal with red-violet and blue-violet. Now I’m inspired!

Have you seen these recent fabrics from RJR Fabrics? Today’s colour board is created from this really beautiful subset of the current RJR Blossom Batiks – Splash collection. Aren’t they glorious?

These colours are consuming a lot of my attention at the moment. Hopefully you’ve caught up with yesterday’s release of the tenth bear in the Beary Colourful BOM…. and saw the blue-violet RJR fabrics used there.  Of course, September’s bear was red-violet. And November’s will be teal. But that’s not where my current obsession with these colours ends – not by a long shot. There is a small thanksgiving-themed project in progress in my sewing room featuring these fabrics as well.  I intend to have it for download on the blog for you by the end of the month, all being well. Maybe even have some fabric leftovers to give away!  🙂

In the meantime….. 

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Wishing Star: Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Link Party

Wishing Star colour scheme by Clever Chameleon

How the blazes did it get to Tuesday again?

No matter. That just means it’s time to party again! Woo hoo, I love this time I set aside each week  to really delve into what others have been up to.

On my side of the fence…… there has been much quilty activity in my sewing room. Sadly, most of it can’t be revealed to you just yet. But I did make a bookmark we can talk about. 🙂 It’s a nice little bookmark, made from scraps of my Aurora Star table runner. I’ve added a little wishing star at the top for luck. I thought it was a nice little nod to the parent project the scraps came from.

Wish Upon a Star bookmark by Clever Chameleon

Actually, I want to give my little aurora wishing star bookmark away to someone who would like it ….  So, let’s have a little game at the Chameleon’s party this week – with my new bookmark as the highly sought after and contested prize!. lol 🙂

All you need to do to win is make my heart glow like the Northern Lights with your answer to a burning question I have….. So, come on over – let’s party like a quilted Chameleon!

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Aurora Star Revisit: Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Link Party

Aurora Star color scheme from Clever Chameleon

Today I have for you a recycled idea and a brand new quilt!

Starstruck theme by Island BatikFor September, the theme for the Island Batik Ambassador projects is “Starstruck”. This theme immediately and happily put me in mind of a quilt design I conceived for Colour Inspiration Tuesday last November. Finally, I had a reason to put “Aurora Star” at the top of the ideas-to-play-with priority queue. Then, noticing that it’s now Bloggers’ Quilt Festival Week,  I found the extra motivation I needed to get a quilt finish on the table asap. Literally. Ha! There’s a filthy big clue to what I’ve made this week.  🙂

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Colour Inspiration Tuesday: Welcome to My House blog hop

Welcome to My House color scheme by Clever Chameleon

My house is part shambles, part memories, part make-do, and all love. So is my mini quilt!

Welcome to My House! This is my stop on the latest fun blog hop being hosted by Carol of Just Let Me Quilt where every stop has a project with a house on it.

Well…… most stops……. technically my mini quilt doesn’t feature a house after all. I started with the best of intentions, but being improv, it evolved slightly.

Welcome to My House blog hop

But it is a quilt that features the essence of a building, and every kid you know will wish they lived there. And it started life as a house quilt. So I think it still counts. Welcome to the “my kids wish it was” My House blog hop stop!
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Banksia Bonanza: Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Link Party

Banksia Bonanza color scheme from Clever Chameleon

Welcome to Australian Spring! 

Here in Adelaide the 1st of September is officially Spring. But the signs have been around for a few weeks….. a lot of native plants here flower in late winter before it gets too hot and dry. Likewise, the pesky possum who persistently calls our shed home has been wearing her latest baby on her back for a while now. 

Last weekend we had the opportunity to meet a Filipino lad we helped group-sponsor through university. The meeting was held at the Adelaide Zoo, which of course was bursting with both flora and fauna Spring-ness. The flower above is a banksia planted near the little penguin exhibit. We have about 170 species of banksia in Australia, with an incredible diversity in the plants, leaves and flowers. Plenty of inspiration for a quilt among them, that’s for sure.

Here’s another completely different but also beautiful banksia from near the Australian sea lions…….

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