RAINBOW HARE

April and May

April was cold and full of grass. I’m pretty sure that it was the coldest month of the year so far. We had frost most nights and snow on two days. May couldn’t be more different – very hot and sunny. But although it’s officially Summer now, all around Spring is still Springing. I don’t remember it ever arriving […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 107 (The Musical!)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays – 107 and a very Happy Beltane/May Day! I’m sorry to be posting so late in the day. Above is a peak of my Colour + Music quilt showing the small yarn features. Today is the reveal day for the Four in Art group and I had planned to write that post and this […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Four in Art, May. Colour + Music

Happy Beltane, May Day or what you will :) ‘Today is the second reveal day for Four in Art – an Art Quilt Group, which I am very happy to have joined this year and which aims to:“…to break out of the usual gridded experience and try a new concept, free of structure or preconception, moving the […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 106 (Blue cushion)

Happy St Georges Day (it’s late Saturday night here) and welcome to Wool on Sundays :) I have finished the cushion from last week! I’m very happy with how it has turned out and I did not miss the days of weaving in of ends that I usually have at the end of crochet […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Waste not, want not…

With some assistance, perhaps a little more than was strictly helpful, I have a sewing finish. Unfortunately, I can’t show it yet but you can see some sneak peeks above. Without giving much away, I can say that, when I reached the binding stage, I thought it was a bit too flimsy. Rather than adding […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 105 (blue)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays again – I feel as if Sundays are coming round more quickly every week! This week the world is very much bluer than we’ve seen it in a long, long time. A couple of days of torrential rain excepted, we’ve had wonderful blue skies and the woods are a carpet of […]

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

Wool on Sundays – 104 (The sum is more?)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays – 104 and thank you to everyone who visited last week :) I find this is not the best time of year for yarn. There is so much work in the garden that whenever I’m home and it’s not raining I feel I should be trying to make some impact […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 103 (Crochet Camera Case)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays and thank you to everyone who linked up and left comments last week :) My yarn finishes have been a bit thin on the ground lately and this partly because I feel I really should be pressing on with the never ending blanket, rather than starting new projects. But about two […]