WOOL AND YARN – Page 11

Wool on Sundays – 127 (Autumnal)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays and a special thank you to everyone who has been telling me about the age of steam in their part of the world :) Everything, here, is turning decidedly Autumnal, woolwise and otherwise. An upside is that outside everything is so beautiful but a downside is that taking UK indoor […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 126 (Almost Wordless)

Welcome! And thank you for visiting Wool on Sundays this week :) If you have any wool/yarn posts to share, I’d love you to link up. The rules, as usual, are: 1). Posts must include some content – makes or musings or photos – related to knitting, crochet, felting, spinning or yarn. 2). Projects sewn […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 125 (Hodge Podge Winter Cardy)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays :) When the year is really beginning to feel its age and each day is passing by more quickly than the last, and when the nights are growing steadily longer and longer and the last of the Steam Rollers rattles and clanks away down the road to its well earned Winter rest, we […]

by Janine @ 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

Wool on Sundays – 122 (Abandoned)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays and thank you to everyone who visited last time :) I’m sorry to say, although I haven’t actually abandoned it, I’ve still not finished with the ends on the rustic lace blanket. We went on holiday and I had thought I’d take it with me but I decided it was […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 121 (ends)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays – sorry I know it’s really Monday this week – and thank you to everyone who visited last week :) The blocks for the rustic lace are finished but, unfortunately, before I get the the end there are the ends. I was happily avoiding them by working a border until […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 120 (Coming Together)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays and thank you to everyone who visited last week :) I have been joining the rustic lace blocks, this week. I still have three more blocks to make and join in and I haven’t decided about what to do for a border yet but it’s slowly coming together. And I […]

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, […]