RAINBOW HARE

A Scraptastic Start

Last year I really fell off the quilting wagon and I’ve resolved that there will be more sewing on Rainbow Hare in 2015. Scraptastic Tuesday seems like a good place to start! These are meant to look like like pencils… Only a small start but I hope by next week, with some more […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 52 (First socks of the year!)

Welcome to the first Wool on Sundays of 2015! Do you think you can you have too much yarn? I have actually long been thinking that Rainbow Hare has too much yarn – or at least too many yarn projects compared with other things and a main reason for that is that yarn projects are […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 51 (Midwinter)

PLEASE CLICK HERE IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE GRANNY SQUARE WINTER STORY :) Welcome to Wool on Sundays and a very Happy Midwinter! I always try to make something special for Midwinter and my yarnfullness, this week, has all been put into making A Winter Story, which you read find here. For this story, […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

OLD WOOL + A WINTER STORY (A Granny Square Post)

OLD WOOL Some people say Granny Square is as old as the hills. Some say she has certainly been around since the first person took up the first ball of yarn and the first bent hook and began working a patchwork blanket in brightly coloured wool – or perhaps she was that person? The only […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Keep Calm and Break Things…

I’d hate for you to think that I’m one those irritating people who comes along citing silly proverbs about breaking eggs when they know quite well you had no intention of making an omelette… But this is a post in praise of the breaking of things. I don’t know about you but I find breaking […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 50 (New Clothes and Old Wool)

Welcome to the 50th Wool on Sundays! This week I have made some new clothes – Purl has a new dress and scarf and Knit has a new jumper and scarf (though, unfortunately they are both still going barefoot and Knit has mislaid his trousers). And, I can finally introduce you to ‘Old Wool’. Old […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 49 (A Year of Yarn)

1. frilly crochet cushion, 2. knitted cowl, 3. felted mittens, 4. improv crochet bag 2, 5. simple stripes cardigan, 6. colourful crochet shawl, 7. circular crochet cushion 2, 8. crochet rainbow blanket, 9. upcycled heep 2, 10. Icelandic cardigan, 11. improv crochet bag 1, 12. simple cardi, 13. The unpopular one!, 14. circular cushion 1, […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 48 (A Finish and a Winner!)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays – 48 and, I hope, to a new year of weekly yarn posts! Thank you very much for all the kind comments last week and thank you to everyone who linked up :) The shawl is finished! And the winner is drawn! Congratulations to Teresa from Crafty Bags who said: […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Granny Square’s Hair – A Picture Tutorial

The threads mark the centre of the face (the horizontal thread is the eyeline). The pin marks centre point for hair. Crochet chain pinned to mark hairline (front) Crochet chain pinned to mark hairline (back) Stitch crochet chain to head Stitch a loop under the place the bun will go with […]