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 […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 102 (Happy Easter)

Happy Easter and welcome to another Wool on Sundays :) This week I haven’t had time to work on any yarn projects, owing to a sudden and unexpected obsession with paper mache, but a little felt did come to my rescue when my inept wielding of pens and paint threatened to turn my planned makeover of […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 101 (A Winner!)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays 101! And thank you to everyone who joined the party last week.Mr Random has decreed that the winner is… Number thirteen – the lovely Kim, who you can find surrounded by prettiness at her lovely blog, Sarah Lizzies. So a gift will soon be flying out of the Makery at Rainbow […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 100 (The Centenary)

Welcome to the 100th edition of Wool on Sundays! In Wool on Sundays – 1, when I said “I’ve decided to start WOOL ON SUNDAYS. From Monday to Saturday each week Rainbow Hare will carry on unchanged with my usual mix of sewing quilting and random and I’ll save anything related to wool or yarn […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wandering Camera

Today, I’m linking up with Soma over at Whims and Fancies for her second Wandering camera linky party. Weatherwise, we’ve had a very dull and gloomy month and, since I’ve been without my actual camera, I’ve been rather avoiding taking photos. One morning, however, when there was a break in the rain we took Poppy to […]