New to Me in May + Fresh Sewing Day

Have you linked up any new things you’ve tried this month with Fiona? My most exciting ‘New to Me’ in May was having my Caravan Pattern featured on the News page of the June Edition of Cross Stitcher Magazine. I was amazed when Katie Allen sent me an etsy convo asking to include it and, […]

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The Merchant & Mills Dress Shirt

A couple of weeks ago when I bought the Merchant & Mills (paper) Dress Shirt pattern and I was a bit worried it may end up looking like a tent… Well I eventually got around to sewing it together. I used the paper multi-size pattern and it was quite a quick and straightforward make. My […]

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I came, I pinned, I made!

Once in a while, I see something and I just have to drop everything and make it (more often I just pin it and forget about it) and so it was with the sweet tea pot pincushion from Join the Mood.  Manuela has even posted a very clear step by step tute so you can make […]

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Scraptastic Mice!

“Can you make a quilt for someone as a wedding present? They like mice so it would be good if if it could have some mice on it”.  My initial response to this (apart from trying to push thoughts of the pied piper out of my head) was that it should be possible…Then I learned […]

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Sewing – WIP

In my first Wool on Sundays post, when I said “I’ve decided to start WOOL ON SUNDAYS. From Monday to Saturday each week Rainbow Hare will carry on unchanged with my usual mix of sewing quilting and random and I’ll save anything related to wool or yarn for Sundays”, I didn’t expect that a year […]

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A Scraptastic Start

Last year I really fell off the quilting wagon and I’ve resolved that there will be more sewing on Rainbow Hare in 2015.   Scraptastic Tuesday seems like a good place to start!   These are meant to look like like pencils… Only a small start but I hope by next week, with some more […]

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Keep Calm and Break Things…

I’d hate for you to think that I’m one those irritating people who comes along citing silly proverbs about breaking eggs when they know quite well you had no intention of making an omelette… But this is a post in praise of the breaking of things. I don’t know about you but I find breaking […]

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Quilted Phone Case

A simple quilted phone case with felt lining for a guest and a Friday Finish! So I’m off to link up with Izzy at Dizzy Quilts for TGIFF and to see what everyone else has been sewing lately :D Happy Sewing! Janine @ Rainbow Hare

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