Pond Life – Colour & Inspiration Tuesday and Link Party

Waaay more excited about my Pond Life baby quilt than this frog is!

Today I have been working on the Pond Life quilt that I introduced last Tuesday. Want to see how it’s going? And find out who is featured from last week’s link party? Well, read on, Macduff!

What and Why is the Pond Life Quilt?

For April, the Island Batik Ambassadors have been set the challenge of using the Accuquilt Ready. Set. GO! system we received in January to make a baby quilt.

The GO! Cutter is not a new-to-me toy. I bought one several years ago, and since then have been impressed by its solid well-builtness and ease of use. However, the GO! QUBE part of the Ready. Set. GO! collection is a new-to-me toy and it has opened up a whole new world of piecing.

The QUBE is a set of eight dies that fit together in a large number of permutations and combinations to allow easy construction of a big variety of quilt blocks. Including a number of blocks I had never bothered attempting to sew before. Such as squares on point (too much maths to be bothered with), and parallelogram patches (too time consuming to cut accurately). So I decided to give my new 8″ QUBE a thorough workout and design a sampler quilt using all the dies and lots of different quilt blocks.

The beginnings of that process can be found in last week’s post here.

At the end of last Tuesday I had this set of pretties:

Pond Life Progress

Pond Life has now progressed from that amoeba of an idea to at least pond scum status….. a long way before becoming something useful, but definitely higher up the food chain. 😀 We are of course, aiming for a beautiful baby quilt filled with water lilies and frogs – at the moment we have about half the blocks we need. But no frogs yet.

After today’s sewing I have these extra blocks:

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As you can see, I’ve made several more water-only blocks and several water lily/flower blocks.

I also decided along the way that my Pond Life quilt should have some hard-to-see fishes in it.

So, here is my first “subtle fish” block. I currently have two more blocks similar to this planned for the Pond Life quilt.

When all the blocks are done and sewn together, I still intend to add those frogs!

Afterall, I bought this die to play with!

While I do that, you should do this…..

Check out last week’s Colour & Inspiration link party features!

This was me when I saw the following two beautiful blue and white quilts this week. Of course the Chameleon pretty much looks like this all the time anyway, but usually I try to keep my mouth closed. I’m not so fond of flies……

There was something about these two quilts that really appealed to me this week…. possibly their calm and clean look in amongst all the complicated and frantic colour combos of my own current quilting projects.

Denise of For the Love of Geese and a fellow Island Batik Ambassador has taken to her new Accuquilt GO! like a ship to water!

She re-set a ship quilt block from the Accuquilt Ready. Set. GO! pattern book into this stunning arrangement called Sail Away. The simplicity of this design coupled with the high contrast in Denise’s fabrics make this a real stunner, don’t you think?

If you agree, you can grab this pattern as a free download from Denise’s post. Hey! Hey, where are you going?!! We’re not done here yet, Denise’s pattern will still be there in a moment…..! Ok, go grab it, but come back here, mind! Because, for our second feature…..

Nancy of Grace and Peace Quilting showed the faux shibori quilt that she has just finished quilting for her friend Missy. Missy’s beautiful quilt is made from Moda “Shibori” printed fabrics.

When I say “showed”, I really mean “displayed to perfection”! To do this quilt justice, Nancy took the trouble to photograph it in a Japanese garden. Head on over to Nancy’s post for all the Japanese flavoured eye-candy goodness she served up for you.

But before you go (again), tell us, what’s the latest excitement in your own sewing room?

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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The Chameleon turns rainbow with pleasure when he hears from you. I am more reserved, so I will respond in gratitude by email instead. Now that it’s your turn…. Scroll right to the end, leave me a comment and tell me, what do you think? Thanks for connecting!

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