by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

About Time – A Story

Here, at last, is my Summer Stitching book. First the story, then some notes. * * * * * * * THE STORY * * * * * * * NOTES For the pages in this book I used a selection of utility fabrics interlined with with Vilene Fusible Low Loft Fleece. For the cover […]

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by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

About Time – Finished at last!

At last I have finished my Summer Stitching book and I’m sure you’ll agree it’s about time! The whole thing has been very experimental and I gave myself a no frogging rule so it’s a million miles from perfect but I’m very, very happy with how it has turned out and even more so with […]

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by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 158 (A Flower Yoke Cardigan)

Welcome, again, to Wool on Sundays! Can you believe it’s November already? And at last, we are back in wool weather. Frosty nights and misty mornings and time for the crochet blankets to come out from their Summer hiding and for dark evenings knitting in the Makery. You may remember this being knitted…and unknitted. And […]

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by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Just Improv

Today is the Endeavourers’ fourth quarterly reveal day and I’m very grateful to all my fellow members for their endless inspiration, encouragement and enthusiasm. I love the way this group prompts us to embark on new journeys with fabric that we should never otherwise have contemplated :) This quarter’s theme was ‘Improv’ and I resolved […]

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by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Work In Progress…

  How has your October been? I have made some progress on my Summer Stitching but not so much as I intended to and not enough to link up with the OMG Finish linky party. I had aimed to get the pages sewn up ready to be assembled into a book and I have done […]

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by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 157 (A Crochet Mat)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays :) Have you had a yarnful month? Last month I was unknitting and this month I uncrocheted – but then I re-crocheted so now I have a net gain from frogging previously made items that were not getting use. Back in 2014, I started an experimental crochet project, which was […]

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by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

The loose leaf version…

When the swallows came and I was banished away from my Makery into the garden to weed and weed and weed and suchlike, I became possessed of the idea that I should like to make a fabric book and, throughout those months of heatwave and gardening and painting, I preserved my sanity with pondering its […]

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