Janine @ Rainbow Hare
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Tag: STORY
Wool on Sundays – 159 (Ellen and the Star Dog)
To wool or not to wool…that is a question I have been pondering. Really, the hey day of Wool on Sundays was long ago before I switched from blogger to WordPress and the place for knitters on the web is clearly Ravelry.
But I do find it a convenient way of separating yarn work from sewing on my blog and, more than that, I feel my badge is a sort of memorial to my beautiful small flock of sheep who are no longer with us. And with most of the internet going to great lengths to sell you something or just outright sell you to someone, I have come to the conclusion that maintaining a small, poorly attended linky party once a month is a harmless eccentricity.
So welcome to Rainbow Hare for the first Wool on Sundays of 2019 :)
Fortune favours those who keep their New Year’s resolutions. This is Ellen and Ellen has been getting up early every morning, rain or shine, and going out for a walk. Sometimes she feels sad to be walking always alone but once the sun rises and the birds start singing she says to herself, “This really is the nicest time of day to be out!” And she is determined not to break her resolution.
These days, she has to wrap up warm so she puts on her knitted hat and scarf, her crochet coat and, of course, her knitted, felt-soled boots because nothing, as we all know, is warmer than wool in cold weather.
Today Ellen found a little dog, who had fallen from the stars during the night. He was crying because he didn’t like walking by himself and he had got lost in the snow.
So Ellen is taking him home with her to care for him and, now she will have a companion on her morning walks. If you get up very early, you might meet them in the meadow by the stream or coming through the woods.
And if you look up at the sky on a clear night, you will see Sirius the dog star. He is the part of the constellation Canis Major and you’ll be sure not to miss him because he is the brightest star in the sky. You will see him twinkling and winking to the little Star Dog and you will know that Ellen is waving to him through the window and the little dog is wagging his tail :)
If you have any yarn themed posts, I’d love you to link up. The rules, as usual, are: 1). Posts must include some content – makes or musings or photos – related to knitting, crochet, felting, spinning or yarn. 2). Projects sewn from felt or wool fabric or stitchery using wool are also welcome but please don’t link posts that are exclusively about sewing, quilting and non-woollen fabrics. 3). Posts don’t have to be from the past week but please put a link to WOOL ON SUNDAYS in or at the bottom of any posts you link up. 4). MOST IMPORTANT visit anyone else who links.
The next Wool on Sundays will be on Sunday March 3rd 2019.
Janine @ Rainbow Hare
About Time – A Story
Here, at last, is my Summer Stitching book. First the story, then some notes.
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THE STORY
ABOUT TIME
2018
A story’s worth of stitching and suchlike.
A house with roots is a home.
To knit against cold in the wintertime.
To tend the good earth during swallow time.
And day follows day and the years roll on and all goes well. And yet…
Don’t you remember when we were young and nothing was impossible?
But now there is no time.
There is no time – like the present!
In the present, of course, you will find an Adventure! And there’s no time to lose so snatch up your fabrics, threads, yarns, pen – whatever you have to hand…
Keep to the road and follow wherever it leads step after step, word after word, stitch after stitch.
Not the end – time to embark on a new adventure…
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NOTES
For the pages in this book I used a selection of utility fabrics interlined with with Vilene Fusible Low Loft Fleece. For the cover I also used a layer of hobbs wadding.
For the stitching, I used a wide variety of stranded embroidery threads (including Anchor, DMC and unbranded) and ordinary sewing threads (including Guterman, Vintage Silko and unbranded).
I also used a wide selection of new and vintage fabric scraps, lace, tapes, yarn, buttons and notions.
For the transfers I used Lesley Riley’s Tap Transfer Paper and the transfer pictures are public domain images from The Graphics Fairy.
I gave myself two rules – 1. No frogging and 2. Using only materials that I had already.
It has been an interesting experiment, which I’ve enjoyed. It has given me lots of stitching practice and ideas for future projects :)
Janine @ Rainbow Hare
I am linking this post with Soma at Whims and Fancies for Wandering Camera.
