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Year of the Ox: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Year of the Ox colour scheme at Clever Chameleon

Lunarcy Quilt: Year of the Ox Block Release Day (Final installment)

Happy New Year! Happy Lunar New Year that is, wished for you for this coming Friday – the 12th of February 2021. Holy cow, it’s goodbye Year of the Rat 2020 and heeeelloooo Year of the Ox!

Why all the ox-citement? Well, today marks the end of our epic 2020 Lunarcy quilt pattern journey. It is time to release of the Year of the Ox pattern, the last of our twelve collectible animal appliqués representing the Chinese zodiac. With all twelve appliqués now available to you, they can be arranged all together into one large quilt, or used singularly in the centre of a personalised baby quilt or wall hanging. And with a little heifer-t, I’m sure you can think of many more ways to use these patterns to celebrate your own lunar animal or a special birth.

Year of the Ox appliqué pattern at Clever Chameleon

Join me today to collect your last Lunarcy pattern, ready to ring in the newest New Year. Happy Year of the Ox!

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Tigerific: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Tiger colour scheme at Clever Chameleon

Lunarcy Quilt: Year of the Tiger Block Release Day

I was, for a very long time as a child and teen, fascinated with big cats; especially tigers. So beautiful, sleek, powerful, mysterious – I had tiger shirts, tiger jigsaws, tiger books, tiger toys….. I even had a real tiger whisker, given to me by a keeper at the Adelaide Zoo. I loved everything about tigers (except the smell!). I would have probably traded a kidney for a domestic orange cat with black stripes in the likeness of Jim Davis’ Garfield, just so I could pretend I owned a mini tiger. 😀 Some girls loved horses, I loooved tigers.

Year of the Tiger appliqué pattern at Clever Chameleon

While my tiger mania has eased over the years to a more casual, kidney-friendly admiration, the Year of the Tiger remains reflexively my favourite in the Lunar calendar. So it gives me great pleasure to finally be releasing the Lunarcy Tiger pattern today. Excitingly, it is also the last Lunarcy pattern to be released until Chinese New Year 2021, when we will celebrate the arrival of the Year of the Ox on time and in style. Despite everything in 2020, we’ve made it!

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Killer Bunny: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Killer bunny colour scheme at Clever Chameleon

Lunarcy Quilt: Year of the Rabbit Block Release Day

The Chameleon is a Rabbit. He argued his case last week to be a Dragon, but the prosecution asserts that he first popped into existence in 2011. That is, during the most recent Year of the Rabbit. And a birthday is a birthday – so a Rabbit he is, and a Rabbit he must stay.

Year of the Rabbit appliqué pattern at Clever Chameleon

Actually, the Chameleon seems to be taking the rebuttal quite well now, really. He says he likes being a Rabbit after all. Rabbits are dangerous and scary. Super scary. Take the specimen on our latest colour scheme for instance. Definitely a killer bunny.

A killer bunny, you say?! I don’t think so.

The Chameleon knows you don’t *want* it to be a killer bunny, but he says he has an eye for such things. So, he wants you to have a careful think: Are you are sure it’s not a killer bunny?!

rabbit eyes

Really sure?!

rabbit eyes

You have to admit, the Chameleon has considerable experience in the arts of disguise and camouflage….. I wouldn’t blink if I were you.

You are here for the Lunarcy, right? Expecting sanity around here would be lunacy at the best of times, and the moon is nearly full again. It is, apparently, going to be a Wolf Moon….. the Rabbit on the Moon shall have big teeth and Lunarcy abounds! bahahaha! 😀

OK…….. enough silliness. Time to download the Year of the Rabbit Lunarcy quilt pattern before all this comes back to bite me.

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Here be Dragons!: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Here be Dragons colour board at Clever Chameleon

Lunarcy Quilt: Year of the Dragon Block Release Day

Should it be any surprise that the Chameleon thinks he is a Dragon?

A Chinese legend concerning the origin of the dragon tells of an Emperor who waged war with nine tribes. As he defeated each tribe he added features of their totems to his own. Thus the dragon ended up with a lion’s mane, bug eyes like a shrimp, a big mouth like a bull, a nose like a dog, whiskers like a catfish, antlers like a deer, scales like a fish, a long tail like a snake, and claws like a hawk. The Chameleon has but one word for such a professional ishape shifter…. RESPECT!!!! 😀

The Chinese Dragon symbolizes power, nobleness, honor, luck, and success; a supernatural being of talent and excellence. Dragons like to embrace challenges, take risks and lead with aplomb. The Chameleon truly believes that he is all these things and much much more! So he must be a Dragon, right? Did I ever mention that he is one thoroughly vain lizard?! Truly, he looks in the mirror and see this:

Year of the Dragon appliqué pattern at Clever Chameleon

And so it is that I am often left wondering both how to tame my crazy “Dragon” friend, and why my alter ego is far more Dragon-like than me. While I am a bonafide, card-carrying Dragon but certified introvert who is happy to leave leadership to other people, the flamboyant, irrepressible Chameleon is actually a tender and lovely fluffy bunny Rabbit. Don’t tell him, but my earliest concept sketches of the Chameleon are from mid 2011, not 2012. He’s gonna have some issues to work through with that, so let’s just change the topic and release the Year of the Dragon block instead. Shhhh.

Also find out more about my new and upcoming 2021 sew along in this post. Starting soon!

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Sniggering Snakes!: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Sniggering snakes colour board at Clever Chameleon
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Lunarcy Quilt: Year of the Snake Block Release Day

What do you call a python with no clothes on?

Snaked.

Hissssterical, right?! Well, my 10 year old lad thought so. Bahahaha.

Just dropping in with some Chameleon hiss-trionics to distract you from real life. 2020 might be hiss-tory but it seems that some of the dramas are taking a while to scale back. So while we patiently ant-hiss-ipate better times ahead, how about some more Lunarcy?

I don’t asp-ecially like snakes, but every zodiac critter is important. And the snake pattern is up next in the Lunarcy schedule.

Snake appliqué for the Lunarcy Quilt at Clever Chameleon Quilting

So we’d better get on and adder the Year of the Snake block to our Lunarcy appliqué collection!

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