I have a pesky quilt squirrel idea stuck in my head!
That’s probably not a big surprise to you, I know. But it is a persistent little vermin of an idea that keeps reoccurring like heartburn and I don’t have time right now to explore it. Instead, I keep allocating it a dodgy neuron in a bad neighbourhood of my brain in the hope that it will get forgotten. But to no avail.
Do you ever get creative ideas that just won’t go away?
This picture by Timothy Dykes on Unsplash is the latest in a string of everyday inspirations that keeps feeding this idea. The colours and the subject matter are such a scary match to the vision in my head, I wonder if I’ve seen this photo before.
But the idea didn’t start with this photo that I think I first found today. This particular idea started weeks ago , originating from where all good musings happen. The little room. It was actually a rival idea for the Island Batik Log Cabin Challenge that I am currently doing… but I didn’t have the right fabrics so it got killed off. At least I thought it did, but it clearly didn’t get the memo. This quilt that wants to be made has log cabin blocks in aquatic shades of blue, appliquéd with lily pads and lily flowers. It might also morph into another interactive quilt like the tired bear’s labyrinth. It might even eventually involve frogs. And kids learning their colours. And maybe even a stuffed toy frog project on the side……. Are you getting the drift of the enormity of my undead idea problem?! It’s threatening to go apocalyptic.
It’s a zombie squirrel! Yup, this quilt idea will eventually enslave my body and get itself made. I’m pretty sure of that.
How are my fellow quilters faring in the war against quilt ideas this week?
I can report that many have already succumbed to some really fantastic quilt ideas. There have been a lot of things happening in quilt blogland recently – did you see the Pick A Pumpkin blog hop?
Charlene from Just Because Quilts linked up this pumpkin table runner from the Pick A pumpkin blog hop. I was very taken with the gentle but eye-catching colour scheme.
Karen of Tu-Na Quilts, Travels and Eats turned out to be my long lost sister or something, pre-empting my Pick A Pumpkin post of quilted coasters and pumpkin sculptures with a quilted coaster and even more pumpkin sculptures. If you didn’t see Karen’s pumpkin photos you need to catch up here! I just had to feature the squirrel one!
And then there was the Art with Fabric blog hop that is so great every time it comes around. Andrée linked up this art quilt exploring the colour white.
The Chameleon liked the ripped torso on this piece. He thought he’d have himself some of that! Lol, you vain little lizard!
If you live in the US and have some quilting resources to spare (fabric, time, skills etc), Carole from My Carolina Home would like to talk to you about charity quilting for hurricane victims. You can find out all about that here. Carole has also just let me know that there will be more ways to help out with this soon, so keep an eye on this one.
And last but not least, Barb of Mountain Quiltworks linked up this sweet little Christmas quilt she made, from a design by Susan of Quilt Fabrication.
Christmas?! I’m not ready to be thinking about Christmas! But I do really like this little mini.
I hope you’ve enjoyed your little tour around the quilted internet this week. My sincerest thanks to everyone who linked up last week. If you were featured you can find a badge of honour here.
Link up to the Chameleon’s Linky Party this week and show us your projects
I might complain about not having time to run with all my quilt ideas, but I do still like having them. Have you got anything you can show and tell to keep the ideas coming? Anything from budding colour schemes to fully conquered projects are welcome at the Chameleon’s party. 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.
Guidelines:
- Link up your latest or recent quilt excitement. All construction stages welcome – even fabric pulls! Or inspiration sources!
- You have 100 characters in the link description…. tell us who you are and what your fantastic project is.
- URLs are not necessary to link up…. non-bloggers 100% welcome! If you don’t have a URL, simply link up with just a photo.
- Do it now……. before you forget!
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Zombie squirrels…LOL Oh I know all about them! I had two visit me this week, well basically one, but I had to experiment before I allowed the main one to come to life. Hope you’ll link up when you allow your undead squirrel to get to the ‘it’s aliiivvve!’ stage with my DrEAMi! linky which is the last Saturday of each month. You KNOW how I love your intended colour scheme for the log cabins (oh yeah, best get on that assignment); I can totally see your vision, well my version of your vision anyhow!
Wow, love your thought process, Dione!! Can’t wait to see what that apocolyptic zombie squirrel brings about!! I love lily pads and frogs!!
Squirrels, you say? Know a lot about them. We had an apple tree in our front yard but the apples weren’t worth eating by humans.
However, the apples would fall and start to turn bad. That’s when the squirrels would come and eat them and eat too many. So many they would actually get intoxicated! Yes, they’d get drunk and do the most hilarious maneuvers up and down the tree, back and forth across the lawn and chase each other playfully.
It was absolutely hilarious!!! We would stand by the window and just howl with laughter. I still giggle today when thinking of their silly antics. ROTFLOL
You are so creative in all you do and share. It’s no wonder you have so many projects just waiting to become a quilt. We have lots of squirrels where I live in Florida. They are so cute, but sometimes get into mischief by nature. I’m so sorry I’m unable to help Carole and the NC victims, but the panhandle of Florida was devastated and has affected personal friends so . . . I must help out there. The hurricanes were bad the last 2 summer and we were affected by Irma. No power, etc., but the folks who have so much damage and lost their homes — oh my!. We can’t complain. Thanks for all you’re doing. Hugs,
Barbara
Like minded people think frogs. A while back I found a pattern for a pieced and appliqued frog quilt. It was really just the green fabric on the quilt that caught my eye. It’s on the thumb drive for a rainy day or when I tire of mosaics and explorers maps. Thank you for the linky party and I love the colour inspiration this week.