STORY – Page 3 – RAINBOW HARE

Wool on Sundays – 124 (going round in circles)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays :) And thank you very much for the kind and encouraging comments on the subject of leaping :) Being rather taken up with the leap, I have had to impose a crochet ban on myself. Just in case a certain Mr RH, who is on record for making some less than enthusiastic comments […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 123 (A Helping Hand)

Welcome to another Wool on Sundays :) You may remember that before I went wandering about the North West of England with my camera (pictures in my Wandering Camera post) our garden really didn’t look too bad… When we got back, it looked like this :( Now, with Mr RH and I working day and night (well, […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

“Oh, to be in England now that April’s there | And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning..”

(Home-thoughts from Abroad, Robert Browning) WATER On the fourth day of the fourth month, four visitors arrived. EARTH Our hungriest, noisiest neighbour has taken to breakfasting on the ground. [Edited to add: This little bird is a Green Woodpecker. You can learn more about Green Woodpeckers here]. FLOWERS Pretty little wild things that don’t mind the morning […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Papermania

March has been a month of Papermania here at Rainbow Hare. I’ve been experimenting with different types of paper – local news, speckled and patterned and an old (not valuable) book – and I have amassed a miscellany of monochrome items including a number of partly made eggs, which will perhaps come in useful for […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

The First Day of Spring (a story)

One of my favourite things about living in the countryside is having no light pollution. I tend not to carry a torch because the chicken run gate is tied up with string and needs two hands to undo it and often I don’t need one anyway. Sometimes we can barely see the darkness of the sky for […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 81 (Mother of the Trees)

Welcome to another Wool on Sundays! I’ve decided to start a new year and the word for the year is JOYFUL! When I was away, last week, I didn’t want to be carting about a large blanket in progress so I just took some Drops Safran and a pair of needles with me and started knitting garter […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

OLD WOOL + A WINTER STORY (A Granny Square Post)

OLD WOOL Some people say Granny Square is as old as the hills. Some say she has certainly been around since the first person took up the first ball of yarn and the first bent hook and began working a patchwork blanket in brightly coloured wool – or perhaps she was that person? The only […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 50 (New Clothes and Old Wool)

Welcome to the 50th Wool on Sundays! This week I have made some new clothes – Purl has a new dress and scarf and Knit has a new jumper and scarf (though, unfortunately they are both still going barefoot and Knit has mislaid his trousers). And, I can finally introduce you to ‘Old Wool’. Old […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Granny Square’s Hair – A Picture Tutorial

The threads mark the centre of the face (the horizontal thread is the eyeline). The pin marks centre point for hair. Crochet chain pinned to mark hairline (front) Crochet chain pinned to mark hairline (back) Stitch crochet chain to head Stitch a loop under the place the bun will go with […]