2020 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

DrCarrie

Really lovely patchwork quilt!

Cherryfudge

The quilt is beautiful. I'm always glad when people find ways to preserve embroidery. It was such a fashion in the Fifties when my Mum did lots of it and I grew up thinking of it as an accomplishment. It's strange that only cross stitch seems to be in fashion now.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Beautiful 

keepcalmandcraft

Beautiful @thriftwizard.  I’ve never thought of using embroidery like that in quilts, what a good idea! 

skogar

Really pretty little quilt Thrift wizard - love the little flowers.

Pip - Many thanks for posting the instructions for the fingerless mitts. they sound very easy and it will be easier than trying to knit things with thumbs in the round which I haven't done before and could probably get a pair made in time for Christmas. Do you have any guidance on how to do the same using double knit please instead of sock yarn - it would be nice to do a pair for my sister to go with the hat in the brown, beige and cream yarn my Mum was given. 2 hats down (1 with manic bobble) now to start the one in the beige, cream and brown yarn.....

Laura_Elsewhere

@skogar, even easier if you do wrist-warmers - for the two pairs I speed-knitted above, in 'bulky' on 5.5mm needles, I just cast on 28 and did knit2/purl2 rib for about 50 rounds and cast off! 
To do them in DK.... well if 4-ply uses 56, and bulky uses 30, it'll be somewhere between...! It depends a little on what size needles and how tightly or loosely you knit. I would try casting on 40 and knit a couple of inches in the round and cast off, and then see if that fits easily over your hand or not. If it's a bit tight, try again wth 44 (for a k2/p2 rib it has to be a number divisible by 4, not just by 2 - you can always do a finer k1/p1 rib of course). 

@thriftwizard, that is lovely. When you described it, I was a bit unsure, but now I've seen it, it's a lovely piece of work!

PipneyJane

skogar said:

Really pretty little quilt Thrift wizard - love the little flowers.

Pip - Many thanks for posting the instructions for the fingerless mitts. they sound very easy and it will be easier than trying to knit things with thumbs in the round which I haven't done before and could probably get a pair made in time for Christmas. Do you have any guidance on how to do the same using double knit please instead of sock yarn - it would be nice to do a pair for my sister to go with the hat in the brown, beige and cream yarn my Mum was given. 2 hats down (1 with manic bobble) now to start the one in the beige, cream and brown yarn.....

For DK, I’d try using 44 stitches on 3.25mm needles.  As @Laura_Elsewhere said, try them on as you go, to ensure they go over your hands.

- Pip  

TwibbleDee

Wrist warmers sound much less intimidating than socks do. 

Laura_Elsewhere

TwibbleDee said:

Wrist warmers sound much less intimidating than socks do. 

They're what I teach people to knit with - I cannot understand why anyone thinks a scarf is a sensible learner-project - it takes forever and then a bit longer, and if you make any mistakes they show up horribly... whereas a tube... even a tube with a thumb-slit as Pip describes... it couldn't be any easier, and it means if you meet up with someone for a coffee one Saturday and get them started on one, then within the week they have a pair of wristwarmers they can wear or give to someone, that they *made*, even original work that they designed if they're bold enough to try stripes or textured bands

Go on...  

And btw, wider, longer wristwarmers are fab in cold weather as ankle-warmers (forget 1980s Fame! legwarmers ) and a very wide, short tube is a cowl...  

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

TwibbleDee said:

Wrist warmers sound much less intimidating than socks do. 

They're what I teach people to knit with - I cannot understand why anyone thinks a scarf is a sensible learner-project - it takes forever and then a bit longer, and if you make any mistakes they show up horribly... whereas a tube... even a tube with a thumb-slit as Pip describes... it couldn't be any easier, and it means if you meet up with someone for a coffee one Saturday and get them started on one, then within the week they have a pair of wristwarmers they can wear or give to someone, that they *made*, even original work that they designed if they're bold enough to try stripes or textured bands

Go on...  

And btw, wider, longer wristwarmers are fab in cold weather as ankle-warmers (forget 1980s Fame! legwarmers ) and a very wide, short tube is a cowl...  

Speaking of cowls, on my run this morning, I decided I need one to run in. Something light that isn't going to gape.  I might look on Trove for a wartime pattern for a "neck gaiter". I have about 50g of French mohair that I could use.  (Bought it from a market stall in 2011.)

On the teaching knitting front, I usually tell people to knit an entire ball of yarn as a practice piece - "You're not making anything yet, just getting your tension settled" - and then start them on a hat.  Like you, I think scarves are horrible to start with.

- Pip