2020 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

keepcalmandcraft

I’m just catching up on the Christmas Sewing Bee. Did anyone else see it?  Esme was wearing a crocheted granny square jacket! 

PipneyJane

PS: @Cherryfudge, I owe you an apology regarding the Much Mending/Little Mending issue.  You were right.  We did originally decide that the village hall is in Little Mending on the Borrow, with people like Margot Leadbetter living up the hill in Much Mending on the Rise.  (Yes, I’ve been re-reading the entire thread.)

Let’s keep the two of them as hamlets, amalgamated together the much larger village of Much Mending.  (Or is that too controversial?)  That’ll make things easier for the athletics club.

- Pip

PollyWollyDoodle

Yes!  Just watched it. 

Pip, re the Awards system - dunno, I have not spent much at all this year but that’s because my preference is always to buy secondhand, and of course charity shops have hardly been open.* I suppose the opportunities for online shopping have still been there.

Edited to add: I just realise the idiocy of that remark, because secondhand doesn’t count for coupons anyway!

Can I query the cost for a pair of running leggings? Are they classed as trousers (5 coupons) or are they closer to pyjama trousers, which would be 4?  I am just doing my summary, and it’s mostly shoes and running gear this year. I found some leggings with pockets which are just fabulous. 

Rah

Hello everyone, just wondering if there is a 2021 fashion ration challenge? If so can someone post a link please, as I would like to join. Thanks!

thriftwizard

Hmmm, hard one... I'd be happy with 48, but would that be unrealistically hard for newcomers to the village?

PipneyJane

Rah said:

Hello everyone, just wondering if there is a 2021 fashion ration challenge? If so can someone post a link please, as I would like to join. Thanks!

Hello @Rah.  Welcome to the Fashion on the Ration Challenge.  Please pull up a (socially distant) chair, grab a cuppa and join us around the fire.  We’re a sociable bunch.  Please tell us all about yourself.  Do you craft?

I’m just working on the 2021 Challenge and will put it up shortly.  I’ll tag you, when it’s up.


@PollyWollyDoodle - regular leggings are 2 coupons.  Do you think the running ones are more substantial?

thriftwizard said:

Hmmm, hard one... I'd be happy with 48, but would that be unrealistically hard for newcomers to the village?

The ration remains at 66, but I was thinking of adjusting the Awards.   Of course, if you’ve got coupons rolled forward from last year, you’d add them to the relevant award to set a personal threshold for your award.   For example, if you had 7 coupons saved from 2019 and only spent 55 coupons this year, then you’d still qualify for a Platinum Award.  (Does that make sense?)

Pip

Laura_Elsewhere

Morning all! I woke to a hard frost this morning, and then about 8, this happened and has only just stopped at midday! It's only about an inch and quite wet, but it was wonderful to dash out into and trot round our usual 1.3-mile walk, leaving My Intended snoozing (he isn't the packet mix that I am: **New! Instant Ten-yr-old - just add SNOW!** ) so I could enjoy the daybreak and falling snow...

As for the village, I believe @PipneyJane is right and the hamlet of Little Mending on the Borrow and the village of Much Mending are considered (by some...) to be one village although of course we who live here know they are not *quite* the same... 

Cherryfudge

PipneyJane said:

@CraftyLittleLisa, my sympathies.  Hopefully, it won’t be painful for long.  Just strap it to its neighbour for support and, if you’re feeling brave - or up early in the morning - make a visit to Accident & Emergency to get it x-rayed.   (The quietest time in A&E is around 6am.). I’ve broken a couple of toes over the years as well, the most memorable being when I inexplicably kicked an umbrella stand.  It wasn’t anywhere near where I was walking, so I still don’t know how I did it...
...

Should we change platinum to 48 coupons or less?  (Remember the ration dropped to 48 coupons by 1944.). Gold could be 49-66 coupons, silver 67-76 and bronze 77-90.  What do you think?

- Pip

I have a bit of a record of broken toes, but can't claim an umbrella stand! Mine were:
1) climbing out of the swimming baths
2) falling over a vacuum cleaner while pregnant and saving the bump
3) tripping over the doorstep on a hot day when I was barefoot
4) falling through the loft hatch

For some reason it's always the right foot - and my Mum broke a toe on the right, in which the bone never re-joined, so really I think I've got away with it lightly. I have osteopenia so maybe I can't entirely blame carelessness. 

Awards... how long has the challenge been going? I think you said three years? I read that clothing coupons were introduced in June, 1941, so after three years we should probably reduce to 48 coupons - I wonder if they were allowed to carry coupons over in those days? Or do I need to go on a spending spree?

Cherryfudge

PipneyJane said:

PS: @Cherryfudge, I owe you an apology regarding the Much Mending/Little Mending issue.  You were right.  We did originally decide that the village hall is in Little Mending on the Borrow, with people like Margot Leadbetter living up the hill in Much Mending on the Rise.  (Yes, I’ve been re-reading the entire thread.)

Let’s keep the two of them as hamlets, amalgamated together the much larger village of Much Mending.  (Or is that too controversial?)  That’ll make things easier for the athletics club.

- Pip

Laura_Elsewhere said:

As for the village, I believe @PipneyJane is right and the hamlet of Little Mending on the Borrow and the village of Much Mending are considered (by some...) to be one village although of course we who live here know they are not *quite* the same... 

I am completely confused but will bow to your much more recent research. I don't know whether I'm coming or going some of the time so I really don't mind.

On to urgent things: I have one and a half coupons spent on acrylic yarn - it was going to be for mending but I'm not happy with the colour match and it's too late to take it back so it goes in the stash. I will look up the wool supplier @PipneyJane sent me a list for, and try again for a match.

And in a seriously weird twist (get it?) to the tale (tail), my latest course is on creative problem solving and the first assignment was to create a monster so I knitted one. More sensible people drew them, but I'm rather fond of mine and it's taught me the I-cord so I'm happy with that, too.

PollyWollyDoodle

Thanks Pip, I hadn’t realised there was a coupon value for leggings. I don’t think these are any more substantial, so I will put them down for two coupons.