RAINBOW HARE

A Record Number of Finishes!

I’m linking today with Rebecca Lynne For Thursday Think Tank. and TGIFF at Sparrow In Flight I’ll begin with TGIFF because I’ve finished so many things this week – I think it must be my record! 1. The red and white cushion. 2. These little birds, using a tutorial from Spool Sewing 3. Two pot holders (click here tutorial). 4. A large pot […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Pot Holder Tutorial

2 Pot Holders – Fronts and Backs Today, I thought I d attempt a little pot holder tutorial. This is a great way to use up odds and ends of scraps or any blocks you have lying around unused. The block in the blue/grey version (above) is from the time when I fondly imagined myself being […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Two Cushion Covers

Today I made two cushion covers and used up some scraps to the bitter end! This one was my Texas Star block. It measures 17 inches. And this one was my practice at making waves before I had an fmq foot. It measures 13 inches. This border was meant to be for the star […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

TTT 10/11/11

I can’t believe another week has gone by and here we are at Thursday Think Tank again! I’m starting with this star which I’ve just made following an excellent ‘Texas Star Quilt Block Tutorial’ at Blue Elephant Stitches I made it from scraps as a trial run but I think I could add a border […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Winter Table Runner

Yesterday I thought to myself ‘It’s about time I wrote a TTT post’ so I popped over to Making Rebecca Lynne and I couldn’t find this week’s TTT anywhere. So I thought I’d get on with my table runner. Then, this afternoon, what did I see in my blog roll but yesterday’s TTT. I have […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

This and That

Today I’m linking up with Making Rebecca Lynne for Thursday Think Tank Although I haven’t had a lot of time for sewing lately, my new favourite hobby is thinking about what I’m going to sew when I do have time. Lots of this thinking involves designing quilts with amazingly complex piecing and fabulous fmq which […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

MAKING CHRISTMAS – including whole season much muddled

Once upon a time, I used to be up way after midnight every Christmas Eve finishing rag dolls, sewing sequins on fairy dresses, stuffing soft toys…generally putting all those last little finishing touches to sewing projects destined to be presents for Christmas morning. In recent years, after a last minute scrabble around I whip […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Swap Goodies – finished!

Mug rugs and goodies for the Fluffy Sheep Swap finished – yay! For Partner 1 Reversible mug rug – I really hope she likes it! And the goodies… I love this pin cushion – I think I might make an identical one for myself. And this is a bonus rug mug. I won’t […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Bad Sewing Week :o(

Well this has been a bad sewing sewing week – in both senses of the word. It started off all well and fine with lots of very enjoyable browsing of everyone else’s blogs and lots of looking at the wonderful pictures everyone has been posting on Cindy’s Mug Rug/ Goodie Swap Flickr Group. Then Autumn […]