It’s A Garden Party Row Along!

Welcome to Day 6 of the “It’s A Garden Party” row along!

Please excuse the pigeon. He says he’ll be with us in a moment.

Once a year Marian of Seams to be Sew hosts an amazing event – a huge row along where lots of designers come together on one project. This year we have each designed a garden themed block for you to collect – mix and match them into a project that you love!

If you follow along with this event, you will find lots of beautiful gardening blocks, flower blocks, garden produce blocks and fun critters to choose from – some of which you might even prefer on a quilt than in your actual garden! And there are prize draws too. Come join the party, try out your luck in the prize draws, and collect your free copy of my block pattern today: Garden Bath Joy.

It’s one BIG Garden Party

Thank you to Marian of Seams to be Sew for again organising and hosting this annual row along. It is a highlight of my year, one of the events I particularly look forward to. This is my third year participating, but this year is slightly different for me….. I am actually making a quilt from my curated collection of the block designs. Isn’t 2020 still full of surprises?! You can see where I am up to in detail on that project in last Tuesday’s post here, but here’s a taste:

Once I’ve finished the whole project, I plan to put out simple instructions on how I have combined the blocks to make a small Spring garden sampler quilt. Including instructions for making the increased size of my own block as pictured. So make sure you are collecting all the patterns – if you like my sampler quilt and you have saved the block patterns, my plan is that you will be able to make one too. Stayed tuned to Clever Chameleon in October for that one.

A big thank you to Northcott

This year, like past years, Northcott has generously provided fabric to designers who wish to use it to make their demo blocks for this hop. I, for one, am always delighted to use Northcott fabrics, and this year I chose three fabrics for the majority of my paper-pieced block: 1/4 yd Stonehenge Graduations Lagoon, 1/4 yd Canvas Limoncello and 1/2 yd Essence Lime Twist.

Northcott fabrics have a lovely soft feel to them and their colours play nicely with my batik stash. I use batiks for appliqué as much as possible for their fray-free qualities. Thank you once again, Northcott, for supplying the main fabrics to piece my demo block. Most appreciated, they look wonderful.

My Pattern for You

When I heard that the theme for this year’s Row Along was to be “It’s a Garden Party”, I was inspired right out of the gate. Happy, happening quilts is what the Chameleon likes best – so I had no trouble coming up with ideas to capture the twin themes of gardens and celebrations. In the end I narrowed it down to the concept of our pigeon joyfully abluting. But then the question became… should I make an applqué pattern or try something different? Paper-piecing perhaps….?

Then I thought – why not do both? I could try my hand at designing a paper-pieced block, but use appliqué to add in the details. That would keep the design relatively simple. And then I thought of an added bonus… I could use my cross-over block to help bring a range of diverse blocks into one coherent sampler quilt. And so I arrived at the Garden Bath Joy block design, inspired to actually make a hop quilt. Win!

And so here we are! Garden Bath Joy finishes at 12″ by 18″, including the border that the appliqué flowers spill onto. The border gives you some leeway with the exact size that this block finishes at… if you need it slightly bigger or smaller to fit somewhere in a project, it’s super easy to just trim it the way you need.

**** It is really important that you print this pdf at 100%, otherwise your pattern pieces will be the wrong size. Turn off “fit to page” options in your printer dialog and ensure that the printout size is set to 100%. There are check boxes supplied in the document. If your printout is successful, these will measure 1″ square. The document is designed to fit on both US Letter and A4 paper. ****

The pattern comes with an optional sign post motif that you can appliqué to the left of the bird bath, like on this second version I’ve made from stash:

My first thought was to embroider the sign post with directions to a statue exhibit…. Afterall, what more could a pigeon want after a bath than a nice fresh statue?! But I will probably embroider my sign on the combined quilt with “Hello Spring”, or something to that effect. We’ll see. You can write whatever you want on your sign… perhaps a little note for the intended recipient, or a joke of your own. Context is everything, and I’m sure you are very creative.

Four more patterns to collect today

Here are the other designers posting It’s A Garden Party block patterns today:

Charisma’s Corner 
Dragonfly’s Quilting Design Studio 
Kathy’s Kwilts and More
Mountain Meadow Designs

Each designer will have a free pattern for you, and an opportunity to comment and enter for a prize. Don’t forget to check them all out soon! Some designers will leave their patterns up for free for a long period or even indefinitely, but some are only available for a week. Don’t be a sad Chameleon by leaving it too late.

And last but not least

It’s time to share today’s giveaways. Yay!

A Light System for your Sewing Machine from Inspired LED

The prize on offer at Clever Chameleon today is an Inspired Sewing Machine Light System, value US$30.00. Shipping is available internationally. Winner will be required to pay for shipping costs from the USA.

The prize is a flexible adhesive LED strip and all the hardware required to run it. It sticks to your sewing machine to improve the lighting under your sewing machine arm. Very handy!

Giveaway starts September 24, 2020 and ends October 01, 2020.

Thank you Inspired LED for providing this awesome prize.

The rules for the giveaways can be found at Seams to be Sew, within the Rafflecopter and posted here below. Please read the information about the giveaways carefully to determine whether you are eligible for a particular prize, that your entry is valid and whether you will be liable to pay shipping for any goods you win. Good luck!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

The raffles are run entirely by Seams to be Sew, and all enquiries about terms and conditions and prizes should be directed to Marian Pena at that website. Clever Chameleon takes no responsibility for, and has no control over, the collection of entries, determination of winners nor the distribution of prizes.

But wait, there’s more!

In addition to the prize draw, Electric Quilt is offering each and every Garden Party hopper a 20% discount on any of their products except for EQ Academy during the row along. The coupon code is: GARDENPARTY20. If you’ve been wanting this software, this is a great opportunity to get it now at a good discount.

I hope you have enjoyed my block today and the row along so far.

And one last bonus:

In return for your comment, the Chameleon will ask the Karma Fairy to let you be the pigeon today, rather than the statue! How’s that for an offer?! 😀

Rules for the Giveaways (Sweepstakes)

– Giveaways offered by sponsors are assigned to the various bloggers/designers for their featured day.
– There are no prior announcements on who is doing which sponsor except to the sponsor and blogger/designers themselves.
– You’ll have to visit the blog or the featured blog to enter the giveaways.
– Some giveaways can also be entered at Seams To Be Sew. You must have commented at the blog of the designer/blogger’s post to enter at Seams To Be Sew, Winners who win from entering at Seams To Be Sew will be checked for the comment. This does not mean that commenting at Seams To Be Sew will get you an entry, it doesn’t.
– When you enter a give away that asks you to answer the question asked on the entry form, you do need to fill in that box. No answer means your winning entry will be ignored and canceled.
– You are only allowed to enter once at each of the featured day sites. Giveaways are different at each site, thus you can enter those giveaways.
– I will start announcing winners on September 15, 2020, and finish announcing winners on October 15, 2020.
– You must give a valid email address when you enter the giveaways, any email returned to me, loses the ability to win automatically.
– You are given 3 days to answer the email, if you do not answer within 3 days a new winner will be drawn. Check those spam/junk mail folders, you may miss that winning email if you don’t do so because there are no exceptions to this rule.
– If you are notified that you are a winner, in all cases except for digital downloads and gift cards/certificates, you will need to provide your name, address, city, state, zip code, country, telephone number, and email address.
– No purchase whatsoever is necessary.
– You must be 18+ in order to win a gift.
– You are responsible for claiming and paying any tax owed on the value of any gift that you win. Prizes valued at $500.00 should be claimed.
– All winners are chosen at random.
– All winners will be announced on the blogs via the Rafflecopter entry form and/or post by the blogger at the site where they won and here at Seams To Be Sew. All winners must allow for their first name and first initial of their last name to be announced on this blog.
– Odds of Winning a prize are based on a total number of Rafflecopter entries during each week and in total for all giveaways.
– This giveaway is void where prohibited by law.
– Participating bloggers/designers may enter any of the giveaways.
– The word giveaways in the rules and guidelines are also known as sweepstakes.

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