Peacock Batik: Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Link Party

This week I’m crushing on  November’s fabric!

How do you like this peacock feather batik? Glorious, isn’t it? At least, it is to me. I bought this on a whim a while back, knowing that November’s Beary Colourful Bear would be teal.

Teal is hands down my favourite colour. So I probably had stash I could have used for November’s teal challenge…. But. I love peacock feathers and this fabric had my name on it. I know at the time it was an impulse buy, and I had other priorities….. but I’m totally wondering: why did I only get half a metre!?!

Anyway, today I finished up my test Bear appliqués for November’s Beary Colourful  pattern, so I’ve been playing with this fabric for a couple of days now. It’s so pretty I just couldn’t wait until November 1 to share it with you. 

And I ear that someone wasn’t concentrating hard enough when they were cutting out November’s test bears…. and now has two spare sets of bear parts to give away in a couple of weeks time…..

Let me explain.

My Mistake will soon be Someone Else’s Gain

Our family has encountered a couple of speed humps on the highway of life this last couple of weeks. And consequently, I have had a little trouble staying focussed in the sewing room at times. On one of those occasions, the Chameleon and I made a classic, rookie mistake. He forgot to un-reverse the bear appliqué pattern pieces before I cut them! Whoops. 

Because I am now using my brother ScanNcut CM900 (amazing machine, affiliate link, you want one for Christmas!) to cut many of my appliqués, I now cut the pieces in the orientation they are designed in – not reversed as is traditional. But I still make the patterns reversed for you for easy hand tracing onto fusible web.

And I cut the wrong pieces. The reversed pieces. The problem with a fast cutter is that you can cut a lot of wrong pieces before your brain catches up!

Now. …. I could have just continued to make the bears in the reverse orientation. For sure. But then I would have had to fix the pattern to match my pictures….. otherwise I would confuse people. It was easier to just recut the correct pieces and make the bears as they were designed.

However, there is nothing inherently wrong with my reverse bear pieces, and if someone would like to make this bear in reverse from either fabric pile above, I will post them out. Come back here on the 1st of November to find out how to apply to rescue my backwards bears.

This peacock feather batik fabric was bought by me from Spotlight, from their house brand range of batik fabrics (Spotlight is the Pacific region’s answer to Joann’s, for the curious Northern Americans among us.) I have no idea if this fabric is still available.

You’ve seen the Peacock Feather Batik Fabric, but You’ll have to Wait to see what November’s Bear is up to!

Eye hope you were not expecting me to show you November’s bear early…. that’s not going to happen! 

He surely hasn’t the cheek to photo bomb my blog before his official debut…..

Hahaha. That’s enough spare bear parts for one day, let’s move on to our featured guests from last week’s linky party.

There were lots of amazing quilts for the Chameleon to choose from last week

There was a new quilt for baby Kai from my internet friend Lynn. A chocolate ice cream version of the Special Treats Bear to welcome to the Beary Colourful extended family. Two super designs from Denise of For the Love of Geese and Wendy of Pieceful Thoughts. A Halloween scare from Susan of Quilt Fabrication and an awesome jellyroll rug by Cherie of Cherie’s Quilting Journey.

And Jen of de Jong Dream House has been super busy again catching up on documenting her quilts from a couple of years ago. This quilt is just beautiful…. my favourite jewel colours in one of my favourite classic designs. And the backstory in the blog post is lovely too. This story is an all round ripper of a read and drool – don’t miss it!

My sincerest thanks to everyone who linked up last week. If you were featured you can find a badge of honour here.

Link up to the Chameleon’s  Linky Party this week and show us your projects

What are you working on, or have recently finished in your sewing room? Link up a blog post, a Flicker pic, 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.

Guidelines (more detail here):

• Link up your latest or recent quilt excitement. All construction stages welcome – even fabric pulls!
• You have 100 characters in the link description…. tell us who you are and what your fantastic project is.
• URLs are not necessary to link up…. non-bloggers 100% welcome! If you don’t have a URL, simply link up with just a photo. 
• Do it now……. before you forget!

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