RAINBOW HARE

Summer in colour

I am not very good at ‘wandering camera’. In June my Son came to stay with his fiancee, her sister and her sister’s husband. They set off on a walk with Poppy to our nearest village, which is a couple of miles away, and ten minutes later the skies opened in a torrential downpour so […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 115 (Sorry)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays and, if anyone is still here, sorry for yet another ripple blanket post. I promise this will be the last before the Tada. I’m not sure if that will be next week but, if not, then next week I will talk about something else! Here are some stripes from this week. […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 114 (whispers wake, shudders play, ripples grow)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays, which I have decided, on this very noisy day in the UK, to keep as a quiet, calm place to reflect as usual on endeavours in the world of wool and yarn. And thank you very much to everyone who visited last week. I’m not sure if I mentioned it […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays -113 (Halfway?)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays! We’re almost half way through the year and, outside, everything is growing very green. Even the garden is growing, which I’m very happy about because it takes up an extraordinary amount of time with all the weeding and sowing and weeding and planting and weeding…it’s beginning to look as if […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays 112 (Two rows a day…)

Welcome to wool on Sundays! I hope everyone has had a good week and been enjoying all the sunshine – or the Autumn/Winter if you are in Australia :) We’ve had a very busy two weeks and, having been away from blogland, I could almost imagine not blogging again but now I have returned I […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 111 (409 stitches)

Welcome to another Wool on Sundays :) Next weekend I will be in York to bring back my youngest daughter, who after a long time and a LOT of work, has passed all her exams and finished being a medical student, though she says she probably can’t say she’s a Doctor until she graduates in […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Hexie Mania

When I started the New to Me pastime of EPP Hexies earlier in the month, I can’t say that I wasn’t warned about how addictive Hexies can be… I used them, whilst still in progress, for another New to Me project – The Small Crochet Frame Purse Tutorial – but my actual piecing wasn’t great and […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays -110 (A Fancy Flower Purse)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays! This week I decided to try out a variation of the Small Crochet Purse Tute – a fancy flower for if I go to the opera or something…! And I was quite pleased with it until I put it down on a pretty vintage table cloth and saw the first roses […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Small Crochet Purse Tutorial

For this purse, I used 4ply weight cotton yarn and a 3mm hook. The frame I used was 3 1/2″ at the widest point and the finished purse is approx 4 1/2″ at highest point x 4 1/2″ at widest point. I used a durable, fairly heavy duty synthetic felt for the lining. My starting […]