The Scoop: Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Link Party

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.

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……

Wombat Scat is Cubic!

No joke! Wombat poo is six-sided. And, those sides are scaringly square. Animal experts have claimed for a long time that the reason why wombat poop is cubic is: so that it doesn’t roll away from where it was ceremoniously placed. And apparently that is important because wombats are very territorial, have a great sense of smell and lousy eyesight. So they leave each other cubic smelli-grams that stay put.

The reason why wombat poop has been topical in our household lately, is that the “how” of wombat scat formation has recently been deciphered. Apparently the wombat bowel has alternating sections that are super stretchy and sections that are rigid. As the plant matter eaten by the wombat passes through these sections it is formed into pellets with distinctly flat sides with discreet edges and corners. Remarkable!

And the reason that my daughter wants this fact immortalised on her brother’s quilt is that the said quilt features a wombat. And not just any wombat. But a tangram wombat created from squares and other simple geometric shapes. She wants the wombat made of squares to also be producing squares. Wonder where she got her sicko sense of humour from……

So, she thinks the wombat tangram should be upgraded, to something like this:

Being the responsible and mature parent that I am, I was totally going to do this. But my usually offbeat son said “no”. I’ll ask him again tomorrow.

More Australian Animal Tangrams

In the meantime, while you wait with bated breath for the poop conundrum to be squared away, here are further pictures of the Australian animal tangrams on my quilt-in-progress.

Before the end of the month I plan to have a finish to show you for this quilt…. poop or no poop. And I have one last surprise – an extra dose of whimsy to be added to this Whimsical and Wonky Island Batik project that does have my son’s approval.

I will also try to answer some technique questions people have written in about my appliqué process as well.

Colour Inspiration Linky is going on Holidays

Tuesday next week is Christmas, and the one after is New Year’s Day. So, the Chameleon is going to take a short break and Colour Inspiration Tuesday will return on the 8th January 2019. Today’s party will remain open over the break if your New Year’s resolution happens to be “attend the Chameleon’s party every week” and you want to get started straight away. 🙂 And I will blog as the whim takes me in between.

So then, our last feature for 2018 is from Denise at For the Love of Geese. Denise has been sharing her progress on a new paper-pieced design, and has now finished this magnificent quilt. Here is the picture she shared last Tuesday.

The finished quilt can actually now be viewed in her post here. Denise is also running a giveaway in return for “your most useful tools and or tips that make your longarm or fmq quilting easier”. If you are quick you still have time to participate and be in the running for a copy of her Xando quilt pattern.

If you’ve been featured, you can find a badge of honour here. My sincerest thanks to everyone else who linked up last week too.

Link up to the Chameleon’s  Linky Party this week and show us your projects

What are you working on, or have recently finished in your sewing room? Link up a blog post, a Flicker pic, an IG post or simply a photo from your computer.  See if you can get the Chameleon to turn quilted with happiness. We’d love to see your quilting colours! This party will be open until the 6th January 2019 while the Chameleon is having his little break.

Guidelines:

• Link up your latest or recent quilt/sewing excitement. All quilt construction stages welcome – finished quilts, quilt blocks – even fabric pulls! Or inspiration sources!
• You have 50 characters in the link description…. tell us who you are and what your fantastic project is.
• URL links are not necessary to link up…. non-bloggers 100% welcome! If you don’t have a URL, you can link up with just a photo.
• Take a moment to visit some friends who came to the party – leave a little love and make their day. And a link back to Clever Chameleon is always appreciated.
• Do it now……. before you forget!

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