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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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June is Purple – Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Link Party

June is Purple color scheme by Clever Chameleon

June is Purple! Yes folks, May is nearly done and it’s time to start thinking about next month’s Color Challenge feature colour! Purple.

“they mixed red and blue together — and what did that make? It didn’t make green. It made a deep dark purple. Purple as violets, Purple as prunes. Purple as shadows on late afternoons.”

Purple as violets purple as prunes
Photo credits. Violets: 小池 隆 [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons. Prunus plums: Jebulon [CC0], from Wikimedia Commons.
Do you recognise the quote above? It is from the Golden Book Classic “The Color Kittens” by Margaret Wise Brown. Oh, how I was obsessed with that book as a small child. I had the audio version, on mini vinyl with the read-along booklet. I can still hear it in my head, nearly 40 years on….. perhaps it is no small wonder I have ended up here with a blog like this! Anyways…..

Let’s have a look at the complexities of purple and some of the meanings it can convey as a lead up to the next Monthly Color Challenge. And do I need mention …… the release of the Purple Beary Colourful Bear pattern is nearly here? – Friday! Yay! 🙂

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Tulips Go Supernova – Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Link Party

Tulips Go Supernova color scheme by Clever Chameleon

Welcome to another Tuesday! Thanks for being here…. It means a lot to me, as there is a lot of quality quilting activity on the internet this week!

(Click here if you are looking for my Wish Upon A Star blog hop post from Monday). Of course, stay here if you are looking for your weekly dose of Chameleon colour and quilt inspiration. 🙂 Better yet, do both…..

Do you remember these tulips I showed you last week?

Mother's Day tulips

I received these on Mother’s Day. So they are now over a week old and they look like this:

ageing red tulips

Spectacular and artistic, just as I promised. And very hard to photograph as a group, I might add. Too many divas and not enough limelight.

Anyway, each tulip has opened up to reveal a striking and beautiful 6-pointed star in the centre. What can I say? Mother Nature still has my vote as the greatest designer of all time!

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