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Bloggers Quilt Festival – Magical Midwinter Quilt (the words edition)

My regular readers are probably fed up of seeing this quilt because I only made it about a week ago and I blogged about it last week. If I’d thought about it, I should have waited for a few days before posting but I’ve decided to enter my Magical Midwinter Quilt into the Blogger’s Quilt […]

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

Unicorn Days

Speak of the spring, and foison of the year, The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear; (Shakespeare Sonnet 53) September. Autumn. The evenings draw in and the Mornings are cool and misty. But in the garden it’s a time of abundance. And there’s an exuberance of rich colours – […]

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

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

Colour My World Yellow

This month’s colour for the Colour My World Challenge with M-R at Quilt Matters is yellow, which I expected would be quite seasonal. Here are some very yellow photos I took in April last year… April in Pictures 2011 …but what has happened to Spring this year? I took these two photos yesterday… April 2012 […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Sasanka: Marked: with the Hare (Color Palette Challenge – January)

Sasanka: Marked with the Hare is my submission piece for the January Color Palette Challenge. For this challenge, I decided to try using an old design – Gestalt Hare. GestaltHare In the notebook version the hare isn’t there, by which I mean there is an area of black paper left blank and the hare is […]