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Mallee Ringneck Parrot: Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Linky Party

Mallee Ringneck Parrot color scheme from Clever Chameleon

Hello!! We are back safely from the Outback.

Which means I have internet and phone coverage again. And that means that I will be slowly catching up on all your lovely comments and seeing what everyone else has been doing on their blogs recently. Being off grid is nice for a while, but quilting is really quite a socially centred pursuit, don’t you think?

The technical isolation of the Outback does have an upside…. for me, heading bush is a time of mental clearing, and of gathering fresh inspiration. Space and time to think and muse over possibilities. Usually quilted ones. 🙂 Arkaroola is especially good for this, being so ruggedly beautiful, and also a bit of a magnet for artistic and inventive people. You never know who you will meet there and what you might learn.

Art class in Arkaroola
What is going on here?! Photo of herself with my boy supplied by Michele Lane.

Want to know who I met on this trip and what we did? Of course you do! 🙂

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Beary Colourful BOM: Always Growing Yellow-Green Bear

 Yellow-Green Bear of Always Growing by Clever Chameleon

The Always Learning Green Bear from May has been exploring his family tree and he has discovered a cousin! Please welcome the aspirational July Yellow-Green Bear to the Beary Colourful family.

If you spend much time with young children on a regular basis, you will know that they love to think that they are “Big”. And also that they are “Bigger”. Bigger than their siblings….bigger than their peers….. bigger then that mark on the wall that shows how tall they used to be. 

Growth charts never really go out of fashion, do they? The motifs on them might change but the very simple act of repeatedly measuring yourself on the wall never grows old. And getting taller is linked to some pretty exciting milestones. Especially if you are aiming to beat a height restriction for that ride at the theme park. 120cm was the obsessed-over mark by my kids, thanks to the waterslide at the local pool. Thankfully, for my sanity, my youngest child is very tall for his age!

So, since I strongly associate the colour yellow-green with fresh growth, the seventh bear in the Beary Colourful Quilt BOM series celebrates all things growing. With a garden on his tummy, a growth chart by his side and an aspirational posture, this bear expects bigger and better things. Or a splat in the eye. Hahahaha, poor bear; I think he’s safe enough with no birds on this quilt. Keep on striving, little bear!

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Leaf-tastic Yellow-Green: Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Link Party

Leaftastic greens color scheme by Clever Chameleon

July is coming! Are you ready!? No?! Join the club and bunker down  – it’s coming anyway! At least that means the next Beary Colourful BOM Bear is on his way.

I am noticing that all my Northern Hemisphere blogging friends are posting lots of pretty Spring and Summery-looking garden posts. Rays of sunshine in my cold grey wintery days. Sadly, our recent wintery days are probably not actually as grey as they should be – we really could do with a lot more rain before Spring arrives to turn the neighbourhood yellow-green again.

preying mantis
Yellow-green and preying for rain…..

Yellow-Green for July

July will undoubtably be chilly here, but I am warming to Spring early this year. Because July’s Color Challenge colour is yellow-green, a colour that always reminds me of fresh growth. So July’s Beary Colourful Bear will be yellow-green and celebrating all things growing like a garden in the Spring. Don’t forget to head over to Facebook for some sneak peeks of July’s bear over the next few days. And I might try to put them on Instagram this month too – look at me growing and getting all tech savvy!  *lol snort* Watch @cleverchameleon to see if I succeed!

And read on for reminders about June’s Color Challenge prize link-up, the fun features from last week’s Colour Inspiration Tuesday link-up and your chance to woo the Chameleon this week with your own quilts.

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A Two-Faced Pumpkin Quilt Facing Tutorial (and Modern Winding Ways finished)

Modern Winding Ways quilting detail

Island Batik ambassador button

Modern Winding Ways is finished. 

Quilted, faced (invisibly bound) and hung. 🙂 And de-fluffed with several passes of a sticky clothes-lint roller. Crikey, does black fabric show batting lint or what!!?! So, that is it – my June Island Batik Ambassador challenge crossed off the list. Happy days. 

If you’d like to follow the whole design and construction journey for Modern Winding Ways, you can find out more about the design stage here and the flimsy stage here. Today we are just going to have a little look at how I finished it. Including a quick tutorial on how to face a quilt, with a bonus little side project. 

Two-faced Pumpkin quilt pad/table protector

Ummmmm….  I said “face a quilt”….. not “put a face on a quilt”.

A two-faced quilt?….. sinister…… Or should that be a pumpkin with a face on his back side?…… ? *snigger* 

Don’t mind me. Long week, small children. Just roll your eyes and join me for the Two-faced Pumpkin facing tutorial. An easy facing method to make you smile. And if you’d like to make a Two-faced Pumpkin table protector like mine as a practice piece, then be my guest. Everything you need to know is here. The fabrics for both projects featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik.

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The Red Buoy – Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Linky Party

The Red Buoy color scheme by Clever Chameleon

Colours good enough for Paul Signac are good enough for me!

On the weekend I was treated for my birthday with a ticket to the current exhibition at our state art gallery. This exhibition has my name all over it – it is called “Colours of Impressionism”. A collection of masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, this exhibition shows the progressive use of colour over time by Impressionist and then Neo-Impressionist painters.

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