SMALL CREATURES – RAINBOW HARE

A Midwinter Wish

I wish you the merriest of Midwinters, The cheeriest of Christmases And a joyful New Year :) Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays 151 – (Happy Easter!)

Welcome to the Easter edition Wool on Sundays and a very happy April Fools Day too :) My March knitting was Easter Bunny themed. You may have met Eggbert already (for more info about Eggbert and his daffodil, please see this post) and you may have wondered what he was going to do with his […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

The Trial and Error Cats

As every pet owner knows (and I’m using the word ‘owner’, here, in the loosest possible sense because we all know who really owns who), now and again, when you are not thinking too much about it, you fall quite naturally into speaking each other’s language. And so it happened the other afternoon. It was […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Mid Winter

May your days be Merry and Bright!

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Made in October

October was a month of misty mornings and golden afternoons and I got off to quite a good start, making several things for my etsy shop. Unfortunately, the world then intervened, as it is wont to do, and I never did get around to blogging about or listing them! Neither did I get around to wandering […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Dog Days

***** dog days plural noun 1. the hot period of the summer reckoned in ancient times from the heliacal rising of Sirius (the Dog Star) 2. a period marked by inactivity[source] Word Origin C16: translation of Late Latin diēs caniculārēs, translation of Greekhēmerai kunade …1530s, from Latin dies caniculares, from Greek; so called because they occur around the time of the heliacal rising of Sirius, the Dog Star ( kyonseirios). Noted as the hottest and most unwholesome time of the year; usually July 3 to Aug. 11, but variously calculated, […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 91 (no time for yarn :( )

Welcome to Wool on Sundays – 91 :) I realise, now, that I shouldn’t have let Miss Hare star in my WIP post because it leaves me with nothing for today’s Wool on Sunday! I’m currently working away on the quilt I mentioned earlier in the week and I really can’t let myself near a […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

WIP

In Progress: One quilt. Not much to show yet but this really must be my project of the month… Finished: One handkerchief, requested at short notice for the wedding of my daughter’s friend. I was given a picture, which was clearly machine embroidered, and the handkerchief…I did attempt to hand embroider straight onto the hanky […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 87 (mostly about sausage dogs)

Thank you for visiting Wool on Sundays 87. I hope you are finding some time to knit or crochet or sew, if that’s what you like you do :) I seem to have started lots of little things lately and I thought it was about time I finished something so everything in this post has […]