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Just Horsin’ Around: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

A little horse colour board at Clever Chameleon

Lunarcy Quilt: Year of the Horse Block Release Day

Happy New Year! I hope that 2021 will hold many moments of friendship, colour and fun for you all. Rainbows all round.

Having said that, I’ve already had my first small 2021 “scare”….. New Year’s Day: the Chameleon dragged himself dejectedly out of bed, claiming that it was time he started acting his age and being responsible. No more silly internet posts for him! On closer inspection, I noticed he was off colour and a little bit hoarse.

Thankfully he was just pranking me and trying to stirrup trouble. Of course, I should have known better.

He’s always trying to be the centaur of attention! 😀

Stop foaling around, young Chameleon! We’ve got some serious Lunarcy to be getting on with – it’s time to release the Year of the Horse block.

Horse appliqué for the Lunarcy Quilt at Clever Chameleon Quilting
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You’ve Goat to Be Kidding Me: Colour & Inspiration Thursday

You've Goat to be Kidding Me colour board at Clever Chameleon

Lunarcy Quilt: Year of the Goat Block Release Day

Welcome to a special edition of Colour & Inspiration….. yes, it’s a Thursday. One last curveball for you for 2020. Might as well finish the year in the manner to which we have become accustomed! 😀 And besides, I was flat out like a lizard drinking on Tuesday, moving the last of our things between houses. It’s good to be done now though. 2020 has a line under it and 2021 is a clean slate.

I hope you had a great Christmas. We had a lovely quiet one in the lull between episodes of moving house. We got the tree up with rudimentary decorations on Christmas Eve, and all the presents bought and wrapped on time. Santa’s cover is intact while my kids still choose to engage in their carefully cultivated temporary suspensions of disbelief.

Our preparations did not stretch to Christmas crackers on the table though and I can’t say I missed them. But I researched one last baaaad but relevant Christmas joke just for you anyway….

How does a Goat sign his Christmas cards?
Season’s Bleatings!

I can’t think of a better way to see 2020 out than with a goat. Just kidding. I totally can (curries aside). Butt, a goat appliqué to kick off my New Year’s Eve is a good start. Writing this, I did find out one last interesting thing for the year – the group noun for goats is “a trip or a tribe”. Perfect. 2020 has been pretty trippy, on and off collectively speaking – so let’s honour its passing with the Lunarcy goat.

Goat appliqué for the Lunarcy Quilt at Clever Chameleon Quilting

And thanks for being part of my tribe in 2020.

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Monkey Mirror: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Monkey in the mirror colour board at Clever Chameleon

Lunarcy Quilt: Year of the Monkey Block Release Day

And bad Christmas-cracker joke day!

What carol do monkeys like to sing at Christmas time?
Jungle Bells, Jungle Bells!

😀 Today I am wishing a very merry Monkey Christmas to you all! The Chameleon and I ape you have a safe and joyous celebration with as many of your loved ones as you can, by whatever means that you can. And here’s an early gift for you – the Year of the Monkey block pattern for the Lunarcy quilt.

Monkey applique at Clever Chameleon quilting
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Rising Roosters: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Rising Rooster colour board at Clever Chameleon

Lunarcy Quilt: Year of the Rooster Block Release Day

What a fowl year it’s been for many. With a bit of luck though, our collective year of rising roosters is coming to an end. And I’ve got a fitting appliqué to send it on it’s way. Today I am releasing the Year of the Rooster block for the Lunarcy quilt.

Year of the Rooster appliqué for the Lunarcy quilt at Clever Chameleon

It’s been a few weeks since I managed to put out a blog post. Time flies (much more effectively than a rooster) at the best of times… and November/December always have us in an extra bit of a flap with birthdays, end of school year commitments, Christmas and so on. This year we’ve added travel and moving house to the mix, so I have no real hope of keeping up. Still, I have a couple of things I can crow about. I am glad to say that school is out, our eldest wrapped up the year with a bunch of successes, and our first moving trip is done. One more big moving trip to go. As for Christmas… that’s 10 days away, right? Plenty of time…..

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Dog Days: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Dog Days colour board at Clever Chameleon

Lunarcy Quilt: Year of the Dog Block Release Day

Dog Days: the hot, sultry, uncomfortable days of the Northern Hemisphere summer corresponding to the annual rise of Sirius (the Dog Star) over the horizon. Yuck.

Sirius (and its doggy constellation Canis Major) is a feature of the summer sky here in the Southern Hemisphere too. And since this past week was hot, sultry and super uncomfortable here… I’m proclaiming that our own Dog Days are upon us.

This was Arkaroola on Sunday. What you can’t see is the stinking-hot gales of wind to go with the humidity. It was still 42C (107F) at 6pm despite the dust and gloom. Yuck.

So, how best to distract from yucky Dog Days? By releasing the hounds, of course! And if that all sounds like Lunarcy, well…. Perfect. Because by my reckoning, it’s time for the Lunarcy Year of the Dog.

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