QUILTS – Page 5 – RAINBOW HARE

Fusible Wadding Review, Friday Finish and Quilters Show and Tell

Snow at last! Fusible Batting Review I recently bought a Queensize pack of Hobbs Heirloom® 80/20 Fusible Cotton Blend Batting but after reading about various bad experiences other bloggers had had with fusible wadding, I asked Sarah about it and she sent me a very helpful email describing her experience of it coming unstuck […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

End of Summer Sewing

It’s taken a couple of weeks since I pieced this (blogged here) but I finally have a Friday Finish! These ‘Really Biased Butterfly’ blocks were inspired by Amy at Badskirt and Lori at Bee in My Bonnet who have both made some fab butterflies lately. I was thinking of making them into a large floor cushion but one of […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

BSQ3 Finish

FRONT I’ve become a virtual blogging hermit lately. This is partly because I’ve had so little time to sew that I’ve had nothing to blog about and partly because I was starting to get worried about my Mini Quilt Wall Hanging for the Brit Quilt Swap 3 so I decided not to sew anything else until […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

So Thank You Jenna Monday!

I’m sorry if you got fed up of seeing my flag quilt last week. I’m linking up with it because It’s my only finish in ages and I have some fab news that I really wanted to share on Jenna’s blog first… Quilt stats: 74″ x 94″. Front – Klona cotton. Binding – the same […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Flying the flag for basting spray!

This week I’ve been working on trying to perfect a simple cloth doll pattern… …and a request quilt. This quilt is a late birthday present for one of my son’s (I have three sons and two daughters) and he chose it because he wanted a big flag for rugby matches. This is 74″ x 94″. […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

TGIFF

We’ve had some lovely days in the last couple of weeks… This cow was very keen to have her photo taken! …but today isn’t one of them! The wind and I rarely see eye to eye when it comes to taking pictures of quilts and today we are, apparently, having gusts of 70-80mph so I’m not […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Chequerboard goes to the Quilt Festival

As I’m sure you know it’s the Bloggers’ Quilt Festival over at Amy’s Creative Side. It’s wonderful to see the huge variety of quilts that have been entered and the talent in quilt-blogland is sooooo inspiring! This is my offering. I made it last Autumn. It was my was my first ‘real’ quilt and, although […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

scrappy yin yang

This is my submission piece for the April Color Palette Challenge. scrappy yin yang made from 1 inch squares This was the colour palette, selected by Vicki Welsh from Field Trips in Fibre and I did find these colours very challenging! For some reason the brown/orange combination is way outside my comfort zone. I thought I’d […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Ruby goes to the Festival!

Have you linked up with the festival of half square triangles | linky party at Canoe Ridge Creations? I was wondering what I could make by Sunday (the closing date) and I realised I made this within the last six months and it is at least 75% hsts… Ruby Butterfly …so I’m off to link up!