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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
READ ON TO KEEP COLLECTING YOUR LUNARCY PATTERNS
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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.

READ ON TO KEEP COLLECTING YOUR LUNARCY PATTERNS
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Take that 2020! Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Take that 2020 colour board at Clever Chameleon

2020: What a Rodent of a Year!

Well, I think it is safe to say 2020, the Year of the Rat, has not gone to plan. I, for one, will be happy to draw a line under this year and recycle all my 2020 New Year’s hopes and plans for 2021. Easiest New Year’s resolutions ever and environmentally friendly too! 😀

But for now I’m hanging in there, and I hope you are too. There’s still some fight left in this Chameleon! And in a defiant act of self-defence I am finally releasing the Lunarcy Quilt pattern. Take that 2020!

Lunarcy BOM

This post includes the first installment of the Lunarcy pattern – a pdf for the Lunarcy Quilt fabric requirements and the basic quilt construction. The appliqué files will follow in fairly rapid succession. The reality is that Lunarcy will not be a block of the month anymore, as I would still like to wrap it up when I originally intended – around the beginning of the Year of the Ox (in mid February 2021). So the patterns will be released far more frequently than monthly to make up for lost time. Of course, they will still be free, and still available on the Clever Chameleon website until it is all over. Just now you don’t have to be quite as patient! How’s that for positive spin? 🙂

So, hold onto your hats, batten down your email hatches, and enjoy the lunatic Lunarcy Lunar Calendar ride. Welcome to the Chameleon’s 2020 BOM, truncated in time but not awesomeness. And here’s to the rest of the year that must surely be more fun than the first part!

Read on to start collecting your Lunarcy patterns
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Happy New Year 2020: Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

Year of the Pig colour board at Clever Chameleon

No Sewing, but Plenty of Planning

Too busy to sew here… which is Not Good, but I keep telling myself it is only for a season. And hopefully that season is nearly over….. just like the Year of the Pig. The Year of the Rat starts soon, on the 25th January 2020. Which also just happens to be “moving week” for us.

So, I’m still madly doing more urgent things than sewing. But in between the sorting and the packing and the cleaning and the kids’ swimming lessons, I have been planning. And drafting. I mentioned last week that I thought that a Chinese Zodiac/Lunar Year quilt BOM was on the cards…. well I have a first draft of the whole thing, and a bit of a plan. Something to look forward to, to go with all of my other fresh starts. 🙂

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