RAINBOW HARE

Do you ever get quilter’s block?

Do you ever get quilter’s block? Two pieces of musical notes fabric fused together with two heats cut out… Much as I love joining bees and swaps and challenges, it is an extraordinarily rare thing for me ever to make something for someone else or to link up with a challenge without being beset, sometimes immobilised, by doubt […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

my sewing and other animals

cat’s for Brittany Given that my life is about 90% random and 10% sewing, I don’t know why I’ve only managed to link up with Really Random Thursday once. I think it’s one of the most interesting linking parties but I’m usually frantically sewing for a Friday Finish! This week I’m posting my Friday Finish […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

I’ve reached a stage…

I’ve reached a stage with my trip-a-long of having sixteen blocks finished and sewn together. I didn’t actually have enough scraps to attempt this so I used some fat quarters and cut into some half yards and I cut the strips at 3 1/2′ so my top now measures 60′ x 60′. half the top draped over […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Fresh Finished Friday!

1. Trade Winds Finished Rolled, 2. Trade Winds Finished Binding, 3. Trade Winds Finished, 4. Red and White Quilt, 5. Red and White Quilt, 6. bee block, 7. Kerry’s block 2, 8. Kerry’s block 1, 9. Deborah’s block, 10. cath kidston sewing roll 4, 11. cath kidston sewing roll 3, 12. cath kidston sewing roll […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

the raining tree and a little ta-da

On Tuesday evening I went out to shut up our chicken and duck houses. The ground was frozen and we had several inches of snow lying. It was dark and snowing quite heavily and I could hear a bubbling, water-rushing sound like a mountain stream or waterfall. Although we have a large pond we have […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Fusible Wadding Review, Friday Finish and Quilters Show and Tell

Snow at last! Fusible Batting Review I recently bought a Queensize pack of Hobbs Heirloom® 80/20 Fusible Cotton Blend Batting but after reading about various bad experiences other bloggers had had with fusible wadding, I asked Sarah about it and she sent me a very helpful email describing her experience of it coming unstuck […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Vintage Edition!

Since my last WIP, my sewing has taken a more vintage turn. I’ve finished two blocks for Kerry – a pinwheel and an appliquéd retro flower type block. And a 36 square, using Cath Kidston fabric for Deborah. And with the strip left over I decided to make a little sewing roll. outside inside all rolled up I […]

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 […]