a short intermission

Apologies for yet another missed Wool on Sundays :(   I hope everyone enjoyed Midsummer.    Although the days are shortening and we are heading towards Winter, the best of the sunshine and the bounty of the year is yet to come – hopefully, on Rainbow Hare as well as in the garden… I hope […]

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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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Wool on Sundays – 69 (What the frog!)

Welcome to another Wool on Sundays! Regular visitors to Rainbow Hare will know that my yarn projects tend to grow in fits and starts with as much frogging as making…This week, I was alarmed to find that seems to be spilling over into my daily life. I wanted to send two Sewing Machine Covers to […]

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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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