WOOL AND YARN – Page 27

Wool on Sundays – 5 (mostly mittens)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays and thank you to everyone who visited and linked up last week! If you’re wondering Why wool? and Why Sundays? you can find an explanation here. This is just a quick post because I’m sure it’s a busy weekend for us all! I finished the gloves and mittens from last […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

MAKING CHRISTMAS, 2013. Week 10

Welcome to MAKING CHRISTMAS, 2013, WEEK 10. Thank you, again, to everyone who is joining in and linking up with Making Christmas. I’m too scared to even count how many days are left now! The Pinterest board continues to be a huge inspiration but the days seems to be going by faster and faster. Next […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 4 (the nightmare edition!)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays and thank you to everyone who visited and linked up last week! If you’re wondering Why wool? and Why Sundays? you can find an explanation here. My knitting has been a nightmare this week! It started with a commission for gloves and mittens. Yay! I thought. I found a motif that the […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 3 (pink socks and a doll dress)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays :) Until extremely recently, I would have said life is too short to be knitting socks but my eldest daughter loves socks and yesterday was her birthday so, having suddenly been persuaded by blogland that true beauty, quality and endurance can be found only in the hand-knitted sock, I took […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Winter Doll – A Friday Finish.

It’s Friday and after my longest sewing break since I began quilting and blogging, I have finally sewn something! I’m most pleased with the shaping I managed to get into the felted dress and with the legs and I’m least happy with face. I can’t really complain, though, because getting good faces clearly takes a […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 2 (a beret and some WIP)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays! If you’re wondering Why wool? and Why Sundays? you can find an explanation here. I’ve had a very hard-to-keep-up-with-blogs-week but I really did appreciate everyone’s encouragement and enthusiasm and I’d like to thank everyone who commented and linked up. I’m hoping to get back on track this week :) Luckily, […]

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WOOL ON SUNDAYS – 1 (about page and felted mittens)

Until about ten years ago, I used to knit a lot but then I virtually gave it up. This was partly because my children became teenagers and decided they didn’t want home made clothes any more (Note to younger Mums – this is just a phase and once they become young adults they’ll be asking you […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

WIP

I have some quick, happy coloured finishes – yay! But this has been my real WIP this week. I feel like I’ve spent nearly every waking moment knitting. I was lucky enough to win the Refraction Shawlette pattern in a giveaway hosted by Nat at Made in Home – You can see Nat’s beautiful version here – But although I’ve got a […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Free Knitting Pattern! Scarf – very quick and easy!

This is a very quick and easy pattern for a warm scarf measuring 6″ |16 cm) X 62″ (160 cm). It is very warm and stretchy and so simple that you can pick it up and put it down and do a few rows here and there whilst you’re making supper / waiting for your […]