Hello and welcome to Rainbow Hare!

I can hardly believe it but here I am at the SAHRR Parade, albeit with a rather garish quilt that is, thankfully, not quite so bright in real life.

I was looking forward to this SAHRR for months because it’s such a fun and social way to start the year so it is really disappointing to me not to have managed to join in and link up more.

Sadly, though, I had the whole bingo card of things-to-stop-Janine-sewing hurled at me.

To start with, my sewing machine was off being fixed, then there was childcare and visitors and more visitors and illness and work and work and more more work. And then, unbelievably, as I tried to fight my way through the brain-fog of flu to get this finished up, my iron mistook itself for a sieve and took to decanting water all over the floor!

At that point Mt RH snapped into helpfulness and insisted I must get a new one without delay because he could see it was rusting and dangerous and might stain our clothes…

Our clothes!

All I was doing for two months was trying to join in with the SAHRR, I don’t care about our clothes!

But the new iron is amazing and I now think the old one had probably been on the way out for a long time.

And I kept calculating and cutting wrong and then I decided just to bind it and use it for the babies to play on on the floor. And it’s a wonder how all pretensions to perfection can fly away and how how fast you can you sew once you’ve decided to use your prized quilt as playmat :)

I’m really looking forward to visiting all the other Parade quilts and seeing how they have grown since I last saw them.

Happy Sewing!

Janine @ Rainbow Hare

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