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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

More Jewellery Rolls

A little progress with the WIP this week. Two more Jewellery rolls finished and ready to wrap up. And I’ve caught up the Colour My World Challenge, hosted by M-R at Quilt Matters. The orange sun is an experiment in needle sculpting a face – not amazing but an interesting exercise…and the grey dresden must be […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Re-usable Wrapping – Very Quick Calico Bags

This takes only 8 or 10 lines of stitching depending which casing option you choose! (Note: The fabric I used is called calico in the UK but I think some of you might know as muslin. If someone could let me know, I’ll edit. It’s a very inexpensive medium weight cotton which sometimes still has […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wrapping it up! A Tutorial

(There are tutorials for these very quick and easy calico bags and hanging stars at the end of this post) Welcome to Rainbow Hare Quilts for my day on the Thursday Think Tank Holiday Hop! In case you’ve missed any of the hop posts so far, here is the schedule: 1. November 1 – Making […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Christmas on a shoestring!

This year has been particularly economically challenging for us so all my WIP this week relates to making Christmas on a shoestring! Luckily, we sewists are blessed with a stash of beautiful scraps but it’s not always easy to think what to make for our non-sewing friends and relations, who probably won’t love love a […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Cello Cushion

I have been having camera issues! Every time I’ve connected my camera and lap top lately my photos have been disappearing :( I’ve been madly sewing late into the nights trying to make everyone Christmas presents and then no pictures but I think I’ve solved this now so these photos were a quick test. This was the […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Elephants and Holiday Hops

Some people are good with elephants. Rudyard Kipling tells the tale of Toomai of the Elephants in The Jungle Book – your children will love this story (in fact they’ll probably love the whole book, which you can read here). Or for a very moving real life example check out this link – Wild Elephants gather inexplicably, mourn […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Progressing…

It seems like a long time since I’ve written a WIP post but I’m glad to say I’m WIP-ing again! I’ve got two finishes – some blocks for Rosa, my bee friend in Scrappy? Sew Bee it! which is based on this quilt at Red Pepper. And two very simple cushions made from half […]