2020 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

Cherryfudge

PipneyJane said:

If you are baffled by some of of the references, may I recommend The Complete Mapp & Lucia?  (Currently on sale as an Amazon Kindle book for 49p).  There's also a television series, which you can stream through Amazon.

Thank you so much for the heads up! I don't know how I didn't see this as I check every day, but I'm now the proud owner of what was one of my Mum's favourites.

Cherryfudge

@Laura_Elsewhere - am sending you hugs and a virtual care package with everything from fairy cakes to tea to bath salts to enough recycled wool to make your Intended a balaclava as a get-well gift.
I advise only using half a bath salt cube at once or your 6" of permitted water will become impossibly slippery and Bill Wot Does Odd Jobs will have to put a ladder up to your bathroom window so one of us can pull you out... Just don't go there. xx

Laura_Elsewhere

Thankyou all! 

Ten to ten in the morning and I have a badly-half-made suit and some very nice new green lining, some proper tailors' canvas and a good steam-iron, damp cloth and ironing board.

First: making labels and sewing them onto every single pattern piece to identify the piece, the side, the outside (!) and the direction of 'up' before I dismantle it.

So: plain cream cotton and a fine-nib fountain-pen, needle and bright green thread.

Onwards!

PipneyJane

Good luck @Laura_Elsewhere.  

- Pip

maddiemay

Look forward to watching your progress.  I awoke stupid early today, have been thinking of you and Intended since 06:00,

Laura_Elsewhere

Thankyou so much! He's been seen by the surgeon, etc., so we hope he'll go in over the next hour and then about 3 hrs of surgery... 

I'm still dismantling the jacket - I doubt I'll get any sewing done today, but should get everything dismantled, pressed, new lining cut out, interlining, canvas, etc., etc. and everything ready to assemble tomorrow like a kit! 

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

Thankyou so much! He's been seen by the surgeon, etc., so we hope he'll go in over the next hour and then about 3 hrs of surgery... 

I'm still dismantling the jacket - I doubt I'll get any sewing done today, but should get everything dismantled, pressed, new lining cut out, interlining, canvas, etc., etc. and everything ready to assemble tomorrow like a kit! 

Fingers crossed.

I can hear much drumming of fingers from here....  If it wasn't so stinking hot, I'd suggest going outside and digging up something in the garden.  (Physical activity consumes the anxiety hormones.)

- Pip

maddiemay

Sunny, but not as intense here today (just over an hour away from Laura), humidity rising now, not so keen.  Having my Justin hat on am placing cold blocks in the cupboards where meds stores How is it in the South Pip?)

PipneyJane

maddiemay said:

Sunny, but not as intense here today (just over an hour away from Laura), humidity rising now, not so keen.  Having my Justin hat on am placing cold blocks in the cupboards where meds stores How is it in the South Pip?)

It's scorchingly hot outside.  Google tells me it's 33C at Heathrow, 3 miles down the road.  My inner Australian was guesstimating 39C, but I'll put the difference down to humidity.  This house was not designed to cope with the heat.  I'm OK working at the moment - my desk is in the lounge which is reasonable - but I am not looking forward to tonight, unless the temperature drops.  It'll be too hot to sleep in our bedroom.  

- Pip

Laura_Elsewhere

Well, he's In Theatre now, went off before half-two, and once they start it's a 2-3 hour job, so... 

I finally finished dismantling the jacket so now I shall press everything. 

I'm very smug about the labelling - I used a fountain-pen to write on densely-woven cotton, then stitched the labels onto each piece before dismantling it, so I know a) what each piece is, b) left or right, c) which way is up