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Love with a Twist: Toddling Turtle

Toddling Turtle appliqué from the Love with a Twist series by Dione Gardner-Stephen of Clever Chameleon

Our second dose of small and cute for April

This month’s second Love with a Twist block is one of my personal favourites. Toddling Turtle. He’s cute, he’s friendly and he doesn’t take long to put together.

arm splint for buckle fracture

And he’s wearing full body-armour, which I think is what I need to install on my 8 year old! This is what happens when you let dads play with their sons unsupervised folks…. a buckle fracture caused by too much fun on the trampoline, followed by an evening in the paediatric emergency dept. Life…. it’s what happens to you while you are trying to quilt!

Toddling Turtle is our second option for Love with a Twist Block 8, and our alternative for Bonny Butterfly, who we saw a few weeks ago. Keep reading to collect your turtle balloon pdf pattern and find out all the details for making the most of the next block of the Love with a Twist quilt along.

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Be a Diamond Frog Hop (Colour & Inspiration Tuesday)

Pond Life quilt colour board from Clever Chameleon

Frog hop, Blog hop…..

This week is the Be A Diamond blog hop with Carol at Just Let Me Quilt. And today is my day to add to the sparkling quilt line-up. If you are new here… I am very hoppy to meet you. If you are back for your usual dose of colour, quilts and absurdity….. well, you are a true diamond. Happy hoppy Colour & Inspiration Tuesday, my friend!

Either way, come on in. Let’s talk diamond(ish) quilts today!

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Love with a Twist Bonny Butterfly

Balloon Butterfly appliqué from the Love with a Twist series by Dione Gardner-Stephen of Clever Chameleon

Small and Cute, that is our brief for April’s Love with a Twist

This month we have two smaller balloon animals to add to our Love with a Twist quilt along collection. But size isn’t everything and variation is key to keeping things interesting. Besides, our next two balloon critters are both super sweet, and I hope you’ll enjoy them as much as I do. 🙂

Today we are going to meet Bonny Butterfly and later in the month, Toddling Turtle. These are the two options for the Block 8 position of the throw quilt size. Why Block 8 next? No reason, except I had them drafted in advance, and this month I am super busy with secret sewing and pattern writing, so I am being kind to myself and using banked credits.

Keep reading to collect your butterfly balloon pdf pattern and find out all the details for making the most of the next block of the Love with a Twist quilt along.

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Lily Pond Leap: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Lily Pad Glow colour scheme by Clever Chameleon

What do Lily Pads and QUBEs have in common?

A recycled colour scheme from way back in June 2017.

Whaaaaat? LOL, no I’m not a “frog short of a lily pond”. It’ll all make sense in a moment, but it starts with this Lily Pad Glow colour board re-run. As we all know, life goes in circles and today’s little colour board has resurfaced for a red hot go at inspiring a quilt design. Even more shockingly….. a quilt that is actually being made.

This pretty pastel colour scheme was only the fourth colour scheme I ever placed on my blog (which was only about 6 weeks old at the time). How time flies! But while the colour board might be old in internet terms, I still love it, and this month it was the trigger that I needed for my newest design. Sometimes things just need a little time to ruminate and germinate!

This month, the Island Batik Ambassadors are tackling their Accuquilt challenge. Remember when I got all excited about receiving an Accuquilt 8″ QUBE? Well, buckle up for a creative ride, because April is the month you will see all the things the Ambassadors have imagined with it!

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