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Modern Elementz – Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Link Party

Modern Elementz color scheme by Clever Chameleon

If you promise to show me yours, I’ll show you mine…..

I am in the planning and design phase of my next quilt project for Island Batik and I’m looking for the sweet spot where the available fabric, the design brief and my personal preferences intersect. The Island Batik theme for June is “Modern Batik” and the fabrics I have chosen are some of the fat eighths sent me from the Island Batik Elementz range. These fabrics were given to me for use in my role as an Island Batik Ambassador.

Island Batik Elementz fat eighths pack

For my colour palette, I have pulled the pinks, oranges, chartreuse greens (lime greens) and blue-greens from this collection. And a red. Namely. the colours in today’s Modern Elementz colour board at the top of this post. In all, I have cherry-picked 16 of the 28 fabrics in the collection and I have a good start on a design…. and it’s only the 5th of June! Ha!

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Beary Colourful BOM: A Little Bit Silly Purple Bear

Purple Bear of a Little Bit Silly by Clever Chameleon

I’m sure you know that it’s healthy to let your hair down once in a while. Well, let’s do that today and be just a little bit silly!

Have you got a friend who knows exactly how to make you smile when you think you’d rather be grumpy? Who won’t let you  indulge in the doldrums if there’s even a whiff of ridiculous about the situation? The Purple Bear is one of those people…. and he wants you to smile today! Please welcome June’s Purple Bear of A Little Bit Silly to our growing Beary Colourful family.

The sixth bear in the Beary Colourful Quilt BOM series is a bit of a clown. Totally harmless, but can always be relied upon to liven things up a little. Great to have around when things are a bit glum or the weather is gloomy. Or when you are feeling great too, for that matter. Add this fun bear to your collection for a touch of eccentric on your Beary Colourful quilt.

And then go check out the rest of the 2018 Color Challenge posts for other ideas of how to celebrate the colour purple and enter for June’s prize.

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Three Wishes Monkey Quilt

Welcome to the first day of the “Wish Upon A Star” Blog Hop

Carol at Just Let Me Quilt has organised for you a HUGE treat this week! A supernova of a blog hop, and it all kicks off today. Carol has rounded up 44 quilt bloggers to show you their star-studded sewing projects. Pieced stars, appliqué stars, star-shaped projects, big stars, little stars…. who knows what you are going to find on the Wish Upon A Star blog hop today? And, for that matter, every day this week until Friday! All sorts of fantastic creations, that’s what… and all of them with a star on them somewhere!

Three Wishes Monkey quilt by Clever Chameleon

I get to help kick off this fun week of sparkly goodness today. And since you’re here, that makes it my turn to help you see stars. So, I am showing you a quilt I made for a very special toddler in my life. I made this quilt a while ago, but when Carol announced this blog hop, I knew it was time to share it on the blog. Designed especially for a little boy named Lucas,  it is called “Three Wishes Monkey”.     

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Fairy Owl Playful Pillow – An Island Batik Challenge

Did you know that owls have a penchant for dressing-up after dark? No?! Well, check out Whoo’s Whoo at Clever Chameleon this month!

For May the Island Batik Ambassador challenge is to create a “Playful Pillow” with some of the fabric they gave us back in February. And for me, today had “sewing day” written all over it…. the weather has turned…. it is cold, and finally (thank goodness) raining. Time to come up with something playfully pillowesque for Island Batik. 

So, how about…… a Fairy Owl? A playmate for the Pirate Owl pillow. Is that playful enough? I think so!

Fairy Owl cushion pillow by Clever Chameleon

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