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2020 Fashion on the Ration Challenge
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Wheeee, My Intended is coming home this afternoon! They did say 2-3 days, and this is 3 days, so that's nice. I get to do a nightly intra-muscular injection for a month which will be interesting but at least with it being into the soft tissue of the abdomen I can't accidentally give him an air embolism!
He was able to sit up yesterday in a chair, albeit with some pain, and is more or less mobile, very slowly, with support and lots of resting.
And my jacket sleeves are too tight in the upper arm, although armhole is fine, so I can either insert sleeve gussets, or trim a couple of inches off my arm... hmm, which option shall I go for? 2025 remaining: 37 coupons from 66:
January (29): winter boots, green trainers, canvas swimming-shoes (15); t-shirt x2 (8); 3m cotton twill (6);
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@TwibbleDee - at my last count, there were at least 6 different methods of casting on. Some create different edge-finishes to others; some are traditional to certain cultures; some are quicker than others; one resolves how you do a toe-up sock without the cast on showing. The most important thing with socks is to cast on loosely. Personally, when I've taught people to knit, I teach them to do the "knitted cast on" which is just "create a slipknot and put it over your needle. **Knit into it and slip the loop from that over the needle. Knit into that loop, and slip it over the needle. Rinse and repeat from ** until you have enough stitches.
@PollyWollyDoodle - that website is a really good resource. Thanks for posting the link.
Today feels even worse than yesterday, heat/humidity wise. How did you all sleep last night? The thunderstorms didn't make it cooler overnight. We went for our walk at 7:30pm and got caught in a hailstorm. Fortunately, found a bus shelter for the worst of it, but we were drowned rats when we got home.
- Pip (I think I slept better than on Monday night.)
"Be the type of woman that when you get out of bed in the morning, the devil says 'Oh crap. She's up.'
It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it - that’s what gets results!
2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge 66 coupons - 39.5 spent.
4 - Thermal Socks from L!dl
4 - 1 pair "combinations" (Merino wool thermal top & leggings)
6 - Ukraine Forever Tartan Ruana wrap
22 - yarn
1.5 - sports bra
2 - leather wallet5 -
In this heat, you should be able to melt it off your arm in a couple of hours....Laura_Elsewhere said:Wheeee, My Intended is coming home this afternoon! They did say 2-3 days, and this is 3 days, so that's nice. I get to do a nightly intra-muscular injection for a month which will be interesting but at least with it being into the soft tissue of the abdomen I can't accidentally give him an air embolism!
He was able to sit up yesterday in a chair, albeit with some pain, and is more or less mobile, very slowly, with support and lots of resting.
And my jacket sleeves are too tight in the upper arm, although armhole is fine, so I can either insert sleeve gussets, or trim a couple of inches off my arm... hmm, which option shall I go for?
That's good news, @Laura_Elsewhere. I hope the Intended's pain isn't too bad. (My dominant memory of having keyhole abdominal surgery was that I'd move and suddenly suffer a burning pain somewhere along my diaphragm from bubbles of the gas they'd used to inflate my belly. As a student nurse, I'd been taught it could cause hiccups, but nobody mentioned that it could be painful.)
- Pip"Be the type of woman that when you get out of bed in the morning, the devil says 'Oh crap. She's up.'
It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it - that’s what gets results!
2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge 66 coupons - 39.5 spent.
4 - Thermal Socks from L!dl
4 - 1 pair "combinations" (Merino wool thermal top & leggings)
6 - Ukraine Forever Tartan Ruana wrap
22 - yarn
1.5 - sports bra
2 - leather wallet7 -
Great news Laura, so pleased for you. I hope this doesn’t mean that the jacket gets put away unfinished, but I’m sure you’ll want to devote your time to him once he’s back. That’s annoying about the sleeves, have you got enough fabric to put a gusset in?Life is mainly froth and bubble: two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in your own.4
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Well, My Intended will not be using the siting-room for a couple of days at least so whilst the rest of the flat is spotless and tidied for his return, the sitting-room looks like an explosion in a rag-storeroom!
Luckily I have plenty of the grey wool for gussets - I'm doing lots of reading just now to work out whether to add any gusset below or simply to widen the sleeve's upper six inches, from the elbow dart, and lower the armhole half an inch, which would probably do it. Read three times, measure twice, cut once
@PipneyJane, they did warn him about the pain "as the gas goes out", and said especially in the shoulders, which all really puzzled him as he couldn't work out how the gas "gets out" as there's no airway into the body cavity, so I had to explain about gas moving through permeable membranes in miniscule bubbles and thus working through the soft tissues and eventually (I assume) ending up in the smaller blood vessels and either being used by the body or expelled via lungs...
I have to stab him daily for a month with a series of single-use hypodermics. Reading up on that too... he knows how it is done, but is not able to do it himself.
2025 remaining: 37 coupons from 66:
January (29): winter boots, green trainers, canvas swimming-shoes (15); t-shirt x2 (8); 3m cotton twill (6);
.
2025 second-hand acquisitions (no coupons): None thus far
.
2025 needlework- *Reverse-couponing*:11 coupons :
January: teddybear-lined velvet jacket (11) & hat (0); velvet sleep-mask (0);5 -
I'm glad you've got enough fabric to do elbow gussets.Laura_Elsewhere said:Well, My Intended will not be using the siting-room for a couple of days at least so whilst the rest of the flat is spotless and tidied for his return, the sitting-room looks like an explosion in a rag-storeroom!
Luckily I have plenty of the grey wool for gussets - I'm doing lots of reading just now to work out whether to add any gusset below or simply to widen the sleeve's upper six inches, from the elbow dart, and lower the armhole half an inch, which would probably do it. Read three times, measure twice, cut once
The sitting room will recover.@PipneyJane, they did warn him about the pain "as the gas goes out", and said especially in the shoulders, which all really puzzled him as he couldn't work out how the gas "gets out" as there's no airway into the body cavity, so I had to explain about gas moving through permeable membranes in miniscule bubbles and thus working through the soft tissues and eventually (I assume) ending up in the smaller blood vessels and either being used by the body or expelled via lungs...
I have to stab him daily for a month with a series of single-use hypodermics. Reading up on that too... he knows how it is done, but is not able to do it himself.
@Laura_Elsewhere, I hate to pop your proverbial bubble but, while you got the gas absorption correct - it crosses into the tissues and eventually the bloodstream, to be breathed out - the shoulder pain bit is much more straightforward. It's due to anatomy. The gas irritates the diaphragm, causing pain. The nerve that senses that pain leaves your spine in the neck and travels via your shoulders to your diaphragm. Since you don't usually experience pain your diaphragm, your brain misreads the signals and interprets them as shoulder tip pain. (Unless you're a mutant, like me, where it goes "ouch! Something's burning my diaphragm!".)
Most people can't face giving themselves injections.
- Pip"Be the type of woman that when you get out of bed in the morning, the devil says 'Oh crap. She's up.'
It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it - that’s what gets results!
2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge 66 coupons - 39.5 spent.
4 - Thermal Socks from L!dl
4 - 1 pair "combinations" (Merino wool thermal top & leggings)
6 - Ukraine Forever Tartan Ruana wrap
22 - yarn
1.5 - sports bra
2 - leather wallet5 -
@PipneyJane ahhh that makes sense! My anatomy is reasonably sound re hard tissue, motor nerve and blood supply and muscles, but I'm distinctly patchy nowadays on Internal Organs!
2025 remaining: 37 coupons from 66:
January (29): winter boots, green trainers, canvas swimming-shoes (15); t-shirt x2 (8); 3m cotton twill (6);
.
2025 second-hand acquisitions (no coupons): None thus far
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2025 needlework- *Reverse-couponing*:11 coupons :
January: teddybear-lined velvet jacket (11) & hat (0); velvet sleep-mask (0);6 -
I do believe it might be a bit messy, taking inches off your arms, so might I suggest the gusset?Laura_Elsewhere said:Wheeee, My Intended is coming home this afternoon! They did say 2-3 days, and this is 3 days, so that's nice. I get to do a nightly intra-muscular injection for a month which will be interesting but at least with it being into the soft tissue of the abdomen I can't accidentally give him an air embolism!
He was able to sit up yesterday in a chair, albeit with some pain, and is more or less mobile, very slowly, with support and lots of resting.
And my jacket sleeves are too tight in the upper arm, although armhole is fine, so I can either insert sleeve gussets, or trim a couple of inches off my arm... hmm, which option shall I go for?
Yay for him coming home again. Boo for pain and injections.2023 Fashion on the Ration: Start with 66. Nightdress - 6 = 60 remaining.6 -
Today is not about fashion it's about comfort! I am currently resplendent in a garish bright yellow and ochre coloured third hand kaftan I got from the charity shop for DD when she was pregnant that she passed back to me for return and resale just as covid started and we were shut in. I haven't been back to the shop since then but yesterday I recalled it's existence and today I am much comfier than in my usual jeans and t shirt so Angel Strawbridge has a rival in a small rural village in the back of nowhere here in the UK and that rival is comfier in this heat than she would have been otherwise. Mind you this rival won't be going out to be seen in it!4
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D'you know, I think you're right. I'll leave it til tomorrow to do, but I think gusset-adding beats amateur arm-tailoring...TwibbleDee said:
I do believe it might be a bit messy, taking inches off your arms, so might I suggest the gusset?
Yay for him coming home again. Boo for pain and injections.
And yes, double-yay, he's en route, about halfway - less than half an hour!!!2025 remaining: 37 coupons from 66:
January (29): winter boots, green trainers, canvas swimming-shoes (15); t-shirt x2 (8); 3m cotton twill (6);
.
2025 second-hand acquisitions (no coupons): None thus far
.
2025 needlework- *Reverse-couponing*:11 coupons :
January: teddybear-lined velvet jacket (11) & hat (0); velvet sleep-mask (0);7
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