Dragon On: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

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. 😀

Year of the Dragon

Here is the ninth block in the Lunarcy series. The prospect of drawing a dragon terrified me, but it worked out ok. I love this guy.

Disclaimer: Island Batik supplied these fabrics to me free of charge to create the prototype Lunarcy BOM available here soon at Clever Chameleon for the remainder of 2020.

Here is the lantern I chose to make to accompany him.

That just leaves three more blocks. The Rooster, the Monkey and the Goat.

Other Quilting and Planning

I also had happy mail last night. Fabrics arrived from Northcott to make my block for the Garden Party Row Along. This will be happening at Seams to be Sew in September. So now I have some secret sewing to do. 🙂

Northcott always generously sponsor the row along every year. Thank you Northcott! The fabrics I have for my row are: Essence (green 9025-76), Stonehenge (blue 39303-62) and Canvas (yellow 9030-51). I’ll be adding scraps of other colours from my stash.

What else have the kids and I been doing in our mid-year break?

Well, I have been working steadily through my assignments as planned last week, as well as the Lunarcy quilt. A bit of netball with the eldest using our new hoop we made from junk (a dried-prune tub, a tree guard and various bits of wire). When the wind allows, we have also had some play with our badminton set. We are finding that with the uneven ground and the prickles, games that require the equipment to stay in the air are the most satisfying.

We swapped last week’s pie in the sky plans for more down to earth activities such as campfire cooking…

Bread on a stick, lemonade scones on a stick, jacket potatoes, baked bananas and chocolate…. all the yummy stuff. Except marshmallows, and only because we don’t have any, due to some misguided responsible parenting when we last set foot in a shop. Apparently, 14 weeks ago, responsible parenting was still a thing! We won’t be making that mistake again next shopping trip. Here’s our jacket potatoes buried in the coals.

We’ve had plenty of opportunity to do campfires before, but haven’t. It has just seemed too much effort to jam them in between school activities and dinner/bedtime. When we finally got organised a few days ago, I joked to hubby that no doubt it would rain now. The sky was clear, I was just being silly. Next thing we knew…..

Me and my big mouth! Every time I lit the fire for the next three days, it would suddenly drizzle. No lie. It has made for good sunsets though.

We seem to be past the curse today. Nice and sunny again. The bread dough is rising as I write, ready for me to publish this and head out for another stick-cooked snack. 🙂 if the sky stays clear tonight we might have a go at trying to see the moons of Jupiter later.

While I’m gone, feel free to share amongst yourselves….

Or claim yourself a spot at Gretchen’s place. The Chameleon has. Gretchen at Gretchen’s Little Corner has been making sleeping bags for lizards, but for some reason she is calling them needlebooks. The Chameleon finds that to be a bit of a sticking point…. He recommends that she rename them Cozy Cute Chameleon Convertible Cots as soon as possible. Other than that, he says they are perfect. Very good quality and very comfy.

And that leads me to an important question…. can we bear to pause? After this week my schedule is going to be interrupted for a couple of weeks. I may get to blog next week, I almost certainly will not the week after. So, I’ll leave the Linky party open for the duration just in case, and we’ll play it by ear. Stay in touch!

Has your sewing machine been smokin’ this week?! Got something hot in the pipeline? Or are you working on something that’s dragon on?

Tell us – what are you working on, or have recently finished in your sewing room? We want to know so we can visit and be inspired. Link up a blog post, an IG post or simply a photo from your computer.  See if you can get the Chameleon to turn quilted with happiness. We’d love to see your quilting colours!

• Link up your latest or recent quilt/sewing excitement. All quilt construction stages welcome – finished quilts, quilt blocks – even fabric pulls! Or inspiration sources!
• You have 50 characters in the link description…. tell us who you are and what your fantastic project is.
• URL links are not necessary to link up…. non-bloggers 100% welcome! If you don’t have a URL, you can link up with just a photo.
• Take a moment to visit some friends who came to the party – leave a little love and make their day. And a link back to Clever Chameleon is always appreciated.
• Do it now……. before you forget!

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