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Wool on Sundays – 26 (wool and knit)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays – 26! This week, I had an email from Emily’s Mum, who blogs over at Quilty Doings. She has a friend who keeps a small flock of Rare Breed Ryeland sheep as a hobby and he currently has some really beautiful wool for sale. If you are looking for yarn […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

little people in progress

I keep forgetting to link up a WIP post so, I thought I’d share my progress on these small people, today. I’m making a scalable basic jointed doll pattern and these ones range from 4 1/2″ – 11″. Whenever I post a doll like this I always get comments about nudity so (to set everyone’s […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 25 (Sea Stars – a variation)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays – 25! Some weeks I find Wool on Sundays comes round a couple of days before I’m ready for it! I expect I should learn to be more organised and schedule posts… This week, again, I’ve realized, late on a Saturday night, that I’ll be out all day tomorrow so […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Really Random Thursday – the Blue Peter Edition

Wine boxes seem to be the only properly strong packaging these days so I had to ransack my fabric storage… We didn’t have a television until after I started school, when I was five years old. And I can clearly remember, when we eventually got one, my first best friend, Deborah, asked me whether it […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays 24 – (Some Sea Star Progress)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays 24 and Thank You very much for all the lovely comments about my Flowerful Blanket last week :) I haven’t made a lot of progress on my crochet, this week. I got a bit more done on my Sea Stars and even made a filler block for the spaces […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Yarn Finishes, A Little Sewing and Two Caravans

This has been a week of yarn finishes, here at Rainbow Hare and my sewing friends have probably seen enough of these but I’m posting them again because I’d like to link up with Tami’s Amis for Fo Friday First a crochet finish – the stats for this crochet blanket are all in last week’s […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Ho, Ho, Ho!

Now, all of a sudden, A Merry Ho, Ho Said, “It’s time to knit warm Winter woollies you know.” And I said, “ It’s only The middle of May The Summer is coming So please go away! I haven’t the right sort Of wool anyway.” But that Merry Ho, Ho, He would not go away! […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays 24 – (A Flowerful Blanket)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays 24! And thank you very much to everyone who joined in or visited last week. At last I have the long awaited post – The Flowerful Blanket! In the end I decided to stick with my twelve blocks. I very nearly went with the suggestions to make more blocks and […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays 23 – (somewhere else)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays 23. Today I had fully expected to be at home sharing the flower blocks blanket, which is finished, excepting that I have a few more ends to sew in. But instead, I’m somewhere else with a very red sofa… On Friday night, Mr RH decided he needed to go to […]