Peacock Parade: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday and Linky Party

Peacock Parade colour scheme from Clever Chameleon

Colour Inspiration Tuesday is back! There are New Fabrics in town! And there are Prizes to win!

Welcome to back to our Colour & Inspiration Tuesday routine with my most favourite inspiration of all! New batik fabrics!

It’s that time of year when the newest fabrics fluff up their feathers and put on their most extravagant of courting performances, targeting your hearts and your wallets for a new nest to live in. Fair warning – there are a lot of new pretties out there, and their covet-factor is sky high. Allow these hard-to-cut-into fabrics to come to roost at your place at your own peril!

But just looking can’t hurt, can it? Let’s go fabric-twitching to spot never-before-seen batik specimens! Follow me into the wild world of the latest Island Batik fabric releases if you dare….. For those of you intrepid enough to face the economic peril of spotting something you weren’t previously aware you neeeeeded, there are opportunities to win big, and inspiration to be had. Who’s with me?!

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The Scoop: Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Link Party

Wombat Scoop colour scheme by Clever Chameleon

The Scoop on The World’s Strangest Poop!

My daughter wants me to sew appliqué poop onto my latest quilt.

Yup. You just read that. And it’s totally true. My 10 year old daughter is on a mission to have scat immortalised on the quilt I am making for her younger brother. And what is possibly even more astonishing – my 8 year old son has declined the offer.

wombat tangram appliqué by Dione of Clever Chameleon

In my daughter’s defense, it is an animal quilt. And the poop she wants on the quilt is very specific. Wombat scat! And she has a pretty good reason……

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Wild Things Island Batik Ambassador Quilt

Wild Things Tangram Quilt by Dione of Clever Chameleon

Wild Thing(s), You Make My Heart Sing!

Ok, so that line’s been done before… Even for this exact fabric collection, by at least one other Island Batik Ambassador. But my quilt is covered in Whimsical Wild Things and this project does truly make me happy. So I’m subjecting to you to the obvious earworm  anyway!

Wild Thing! Bah da da da dah! You make my heart sing! Bah da da da dah! You make eeeeverything Grooooooo-veeeey!

Whimsical and Wonky Challenge button

But I’m not just here to torture you with old rock tunes. I promised you a progress update and a look at some of my new Australian Tangram designs on my “Whimsical and Wonky” Island Batik ambassador quilt for December. So let’s go!

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Wild Things: Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Link Party

Tiger colour scheme from Clever Chameleon

December at Island Batik is Whimsical and Wonky….. and Wild!

The challenge for the Island Batik Ambassadors for this month is Whimsical and Wonky. Well, that pretty much sums up all my quilts…. so would you believe I had the hardest time settling on an idea for this challenge? The hardest time!

But I now have a plan I’m happy with. And I’ve started! I think it should be fun. 🙂

Most importantly…. it will be a project for my son who is starting to feel a little left out because his sister keeps claiming all my quited creations that are too girly for him.

Wild Things 10" precut fabric squares
Wild Things 10″ fabric squares by Island Batik

In July I received this pack of 10″ squares of “Wild Things” from Island Batik to use in my role as Ambassador. My boy, who has just turned eight, thinks all the animal skin prints are terrific… especially the sssssnake sssskins…….. sssssss!!!! 🙂 So that is a good ssssssstart.

Want to see what I’m making?

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