‘P’ IS FOR PAPER

On Sunday I said I had settled on my ‘word for the year’. And the word I have settled on isn’t actually ‘Adventure’ but ‘Paper!’ Perhaps, though, I shall try to keep ‘Adventure’ for the spirit of the year. I know ‘Paper’ might sound rather dull and mundane – a bit passé in this digital […]

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On becoming a Diarist…

Are you a diarist? Or a keeper of a journal, or a note book? Do you record important events and ideas, perhaps doodles and sketches, designs? Aside from a work diary of appointments, I can’t tell you how much I envy and admire anyone who can keep a coherent record of events or projects for […]

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Leap in Colour?

I am very nearly at the Ta-da of the peg bag pattern – and I am very keen to get the Ta-da in soon or an entire year will have passed since I announced I was ‘in the process’ of making it. And, whilst I was working on the pattern this week, I have been making a […]

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Purple Passion / Once upon a time…

Do you love lavender? Are you mad about mauve? Today is the third reveal day for Four in Art  – an Art Quilt Group, which aims to: “…to break out of the usual gridded experience and try a new concept, free of structure or preconception, moving the boundaries of our own skills forward in both concept and […]

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Four in Art, May. Colour + Music

Happy Beltane, May Day or what you will :) ‘Today is the second reveal day for Four in Art  – an Art Quilt Group, which I am very happy to have joined this year and which aims to:“…to break out of the usual gridded experience and try a new concept, free of structure or preconception, moving the […]

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Four-in-Art – Colour + Microscopic

This year I have joined Four-in-Art. Four-in-Art, is a small group with the stated common desire to: ‘break out of the usual gridded experience and try a new concept, free of structure or preconception, moving the boundaries of our own skills forward in both concept and technique’.The overall theme for this year is colour and […]

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…not afraid…

Because a heap of words is too many and not enough… Some pencils… a picture… and a few words of Joachim Roncin – the French Stylist who created this: “This is what Je Suis Charlie actually means: I am free, I am not afraid.”   * * * * * * * Janine @ Rainbow Hare

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Really Random Thursday!

I love Really Random Thursdays and all week I seem to notice things that strike me as perfect for a RRT post but then, somehow, on Thursdays my mind goes blank and I forget whatever I was going to write about. So, today, I thought I’d share part of a post from a blog I […]

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