2020 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

keepcalmandcraft

I’m in awe of your stripe matching Laura, that back seam certainly makes you go cross-eyed!  Also love the ring and hope all goes well next week.
I like Little Mending on the Borrow and think it fits us perfectly! I’m already imagining putting on my hat and going to the village hall for WI meetings and jam making.....,

Cherryfudge

Greetings, fellow villagers of Little Mending on the Borrow.

@Laura_Elsewhere, your stripes are awesome as well as beautiful, and thanks to both you and @PipneyJane for tee shirt advice. I am absolutely with you regarding most tee shirt mends: I've had one or two tee shirts develop lumps where the tiny hole appeared in an obvious place and got mended, so I know  (and - ahem - I have a few garments with mending embroidery already ) and I do like the way of drawing together that you've described, which might actually work on the current tiny hole (hidden among stripes so more forgiving).

Why do the holes tend to appear on the front and in the middle?

I've used unravelled overlocker thread to hem shortened long sleeves on tees, IYSWIM. It worked well apart from the hassle of unravelling the threads. I had a bleach mark on a cuff so the sleeves were reduced to three quarter length. Our ancestors knew a thing or two when they introduced that length, it has everything going for it and I later did the same for an undamaged long sleeved tee.

Do we get to name our cottages in Little Mending, too?

Laura_Elsewhere

I keep wanting to start a little sketch-map of Little Mending on the Borrow... I could see it so clearly from @PipneyJane's description! 
Does the half-timbered pub have a name? 'The Make-Do and Lend' springs to mind... 

PollyWollyDoodle

I’m loving this!  I think my bijou residence (just room for a sewing machine in the bay window) will be Woodbine Cottage. 

Laura_Elsewhere

Woodbine Cottage? With honeysuckle round the door, and smoke curling out of the chimney  (tee hee hee, showing my age there!)

PollyWollyDoodle

Yep!  I think a climbing rose, and of course I will have a wood burning stove. ( I have one in real life and it’s one of my Best Things!)

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

I keep wanting to start a little sketch-map of Little Mending on the Borrow... I could see it so clearly from @PipneyJane's description! 
Does the half-timbered pub have a name? 'The Make-Do and Lend' springs to mind... 

My preference for the pub would be 'The Make-Do and Mend', since we're living in Little Mending.  I can't come up with a pun on selfsulficiency, for it.  

The parish newsletter has to be called "The Goode Life" and edited by Tom and Barbara.  

- Pip

TwibbleDee

I’ve been remiss in replying as I’ve been at a staff retreat the last few days.  It was lovely to stay some place not my home (and yes, we took lots of precautions) for a few days.  Tons and tons of planning and concentration, so I was wiped when we were done yesterday.

Today we’re heading out to my parents’ house - taking our camper (I think y’all would call it a caravan) to stay in.  They live down by a river where there are trees (by contrast, we live in a desert - haven’t even had an inch of rain in the last month...maybe 3!) and have a pool and hot tub, so while it’s not the beach as we’d originally planned, we can at least get in the water in multiple ways!

As for the yarn - I picked up a lovely dark blue green and a brown woolen 4-ply worsted weight yarn, each 100g, that Laura tells me is probably twice as thick as I should have been getting, but I live where it’s 105F on a regular basis in the summer and only freezes a few times a year, so unless I make it into a proper yarn shop, I have very limited options.   The blue green was actually the ONLY color that wasn’t brown, gray, or black, and it was on clearance!  I’m actually wondering if I should get more of the brown and attempt to make taller socks, as I very rarely wear tennies (trainers) and will most likely end up wearing them with my cowboy boots.

Oh, and Laura?  I’ve refused to sew with stripes for years, because I know it’ll drive me batty if they don’t line up correctly.

PipneyJane

TwibbleDee said:

I’ve been remiss in replying as I’ve been at a staff retreat the last few days.  It was lovely to stay some place not my home (and yes, we took lots of precautions) for a few days.  Tons and tons of planning and concentration, so I was wiped when we were done yesterday.

Today we’re heading out to my parents’ house - taking our camper (I think y’all would call it a caravan) to stay in.  They live down by a river where there are trees (by contrast, we live in a desert - haven’t even had an inch of rain in the last month...maybe 3!) and have a pool and hot tub, so while it’s not the beach as we’d originally planned, we can at least get in the water in multiple ways!

As for the yarn - I picked up a lovely dark blue green and a brown woolen 4-ply worsted weight yarn, each 100g, that Laura tells me is probably twice as thick as I should have been getting, but I live where it’s 105F on a regular basis in the summer and only freezes a few times a year, so unless I make it into a proper yarn shop, I have very limited options.   The blue green was actually the ONLY color that wasn’t brown, gray, or black, and it was on clearance!  I’m actually wondering if I should get more of the brown and attempt to make taller socks, as I very rarely wear tennies (trainers) and will most likely end up wearing them with my cowboy boots.

Oh, and Laura?  I’ve refused to sew with stripes for years, because I know it’ll drive me batty if they don’t line up correctly.

Enjoy your trip to your folks.  I'm jealous of you getting to sit in a pool right now.   We've been promised 32C (90F) tomorrow but our houses aren't built for it.  It also keeps threatening to rain here today....

Regarding the sock yarn, worsted-weight is thick.  Sock yarn is usually fingering weight (a.k.a. "4-ply" to the Brits and Aussies), whereas in Australia worsted-weight is called "10 ply".  If you are brave enough to try mail-order, I'd suggest Knitpicks Stroll or Lionbrand Sock Ease (also often sold in Jo-Annes and other big box stores) or any of the sock yarns sold by Webbs.   The socks I've made with Sock Ease are soft and very hardwearing.  (It's been nearly 4 years and they get worn virtually every weekend.)   I've never successfully made knee length socks that will stay up without sticking a band of elastic under the turned-down cuff.  Most of my socks have a 5 inch leg, which works well in boots (68 rounds on a US size 1 needle (2.5mm)). 

HTH

- Pip

basketcase

PipneyJane said:

Laura_Elsewhere said:

I keep wanting to start a little sketch-map of Little Mending on the Borrow... I could see it so clearly from @PipneyJane's description! 
Does the half-timbered pub have a name? 'The Make-Do and Lend' springs to mind... 

My preference for the pub would be 'The Make-Do and Mend', since we're living in Little Mending.  I can't come up with a pun on selfsulficiency, for it.  

The parish newsletter has to be called "The Goode Life" and edited by Tom and Barbara.  

- Pip

I don't know, I turn my back for a day or two and a housing estate springs up!  rofl

I love the name, Little Mending - and the parish newsletter's inspired.  Do I assume the village is part of a cluster?  Nether Mending, Middle Mending and Much Mending on the Rise?

I'm taking it as read that there's a haberdashery?  Perhaps run by a Miss Trim?

Ooh!  Is the dog's name not Patch?  lol