CLOTH DOLLS – Page 4 – RAINBOW HARE

Winter Doll – A Friday Finish.

It’s Friday and after my longest sewing break since I began quilting and blogging, I have finally sewn something! I’m most pleased with the shaping I managed to get into the felted dress and with the legs and I’m least happy with face. I can’t really complain, though, because getting good faces clearly takes a […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Murder, She Sewed…

A Murder of Crows, that is… Another Rainbow Hare Roll with three roomy zipped pockets for Jewellery, Sewing supplies or Arty things. Or perhaps to keep your tricks and tricks and lotions and potions and secret spells and charms! To begin with there was no question of a murder at all. It started with a cloth […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

A Green Elf (+ 2012 Colour My World Challenge Finale)

The elf is finished! The colour for December in the Colour My World Challenge, inspired and hosted by M-R at Quilt Matters was green. The basic pattern I used was the same as the midwinter faery, based on Miranda in book called Introduction to Making Cloth Dolls by Jan Horrox. I think his hands turned out better and […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Mid-Winter Faery Song

Here is a Mid-Winter Faery. She is a song because she is made of words and music. Naturally, she is magical because ‘charm’ derives from the same source as carol and (archaically) means a song. The song is the song of the evergreens – the holly, the ivy and the fir, singing the sun back […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

A meeting, a girl and a bird

On Friday I met up with the lovely Nicky from Mrs Sew and Sow in Lewes. We had tea, looked around an eclectic assortment of antique shops and enjoyed some uninterrupted browsing in The Patchwork Dog and Basket – no husbands or children asking “Haven’t you finished yet?”!!! Unfortunately neither of us took a working camera but if […]