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 […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Papermania

March has been a month of Papermania here at Rainbow Hare. I’ve been experimenting with different types of paper – local news, speckled and patterned and an old (not valuable) book – and I have amassed a miscellany of monochrome items including a number of partly made eggs, which will perhaps come in useful for […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

The First Day of Spring (a story)

One of my favourite things about living in the countryside is having no light pollution. I tend not to carry a torch because the chicken run gate is tied up with string and needs two hands to undo it and often I don’t need one anyway. Sometimes we can barely see the darkness of the sky for […]