2020 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

maddiemay

Sorry about the size of the above, totally out of touch with all this stuff since retirement.

Laura_Elsewhere

Maddiemay, the pic worked fine for me - nice jumper! Is this the one you got your nice local shop to sort out finishing for you? 

maddiemay

Laura, yes Jean at The Wool Shop in Ludlow had one of her knitters make it up for me.

supersaver1000

Finally dusted off the sewing machine (and the iron on wunder web) and took up the hem on two skirts and reduced the leg width on a pair of trousers (all charity shop finds).  I got a very reduced dress in the sale last year as it had the zipper pull missing, so I added a little tag to the zipper and also turned the epaulets around as they were a bit big the other way.  So my wardrobe has grown by 2 skirts, 1 pair of trousers and 1 dress all for nothing.  I feel like I have truly joined the fashion on the ration thread now.  I was a bit tired by the time I did the last skirt and managed to turn the lining up the wrong way - but it actually doesn't matter as no-one but me will see it.  Really pleased with it all and my work wardrobe is complete.

The one thing I am definitely short of is footwear, but I need to make the most of my vouchers so I am taking my time.   And I would love to buy a coat (or two) but I need to drop another size first - and of course spring is nearly here (well that's what I'm telling myself) so maybe I can wait until next year.

dolly84

Laura - I wish I lived near you too, I would love to have someone teach me and then I could teach DD.  We do have a Knit and Natter group locally, maybe I should gatecrash that.

Maddie - the colour of your jumper looks nice, well worth paying to get it made up.

CAFCGirl

lovely makes ladies!
lots of PhD's (Projects Half Done) being awarded too with your adjustments and mends.
Im now performing an ebay intervention on myself after winning:
Pull and Bear Short length camel chino trousers, H&Mpaisley print harem trousers, a Wallis floral print wrap over blouse with a hi lo dip front to back, with one bid left to go on a pair of space pattern leggings! I am convincing myself that because I stick to 99p bids and don't get in again for 24 hours, I don't have that ooooh shall I just bid again? to secure the win thinking but similarly, I probably put in a few too many 99p's in general LOL

Discovered in my yarn ordering that I underestimated how much one skein was going to do on my blanket so I've now calculated I need double LOL luckily though, its a blanket and in Stylecraft chunky acrylic so they're only £1.95 a skein and there's often a 10% code for the site floating around. Its quite soft yarn for an acrylic. But I cant cash afford that till next month anyway so will no get started on the fingerless mittens I promised myself using some lovely green yarn I was gifted, and some more pot covers.

PipneyJane

Lovely jumper, Maddiemay.

CAFCGirl said:

lovely makes ladies!
lots of PhD's (Projects Half Done) being awarded too with your adjustments and mends.
Im now performing an ebay intervention on myself after winning:
Pull and Bear Short length camel chino trousers, H&Mpaisley print harem trousers, a Wallis floral print wrap over blouse with a hi lo dip front to back, with one bid left to go on a pair of space pattern leggings! I am convincing myself that because I stick to 99p bids and don't get in again for 24 hours, I don't have that ooooh shall I just bid again? to secure the win thinking but similarly, I probably put in a few too many 99p's in general LOL

Discovered in my yarn ordering that I underestimated how much one skein was going to do on my blanket so I've now calculated I need double LOL luckily though, its a blanket and in Stylecraft chunky acrylic so they're only £1.95 a skein and there's often a 10% code for the site floating around. Its quite soft yarn for an acrylic. But I cant cash afford that till next month anyway so will no get started on the fingerless mittens I promised myself using some lovely green yarn I was gifted, and some more pot covers.

Have you ever tried using eSnipe?  It's a website which will bid for you at the last minute, so that other bidders don't see that you're interested and drive up the price. When eSnipe bids, it'll bid one penny over whatever the highest price is, so long as it's below your maximum. You do have to pay a small fee (pennies per win).  

HTH

Pip

Laura_Elsewhere

PipneyJane said:

Have you ever tried using eSnipe?  It's a website which will bid for you at the last minute, so that other bidders don't see that you're interested and drive up the price. When eSnipe bids, it'll bid one penny over whatever the highest price is, so long as it's below your maximum. You do have to pay a small fee (pennies per win).  

HTH

Pip

Hang about - I've quite often put in a bid when one already exists and it rejects my bid saying it must be more than 20p or more than 50p or whatever above the existing bid by someone else... so wouldn't this eSnipe fail?

Mind you, I'm distinctly weird with eBay - I decide what I would pay if I say he thing in a charity shop, and then put in a bid for that-minus-the-postage, ie the total is my "happy to pay that amount" and then I just leave it til I get a notification one way or the other...  It means I never pay more than I intended, and I rarely lose something I really want because if I really want it I put in what I would be prepared to pay... and I still seem to get great bargains  

Laura_Elsewhere

More spending for me - three pairs of leggings to be chopped off short, edged with lace and worn under my skirts - what do I class those as? Long-leg knickers? stockings? half a pair of pyjamas?! 

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

PipneyJane said:

Have you ever tried using eSnipe?  It's a website which will bid for you at the last minute, so that other bidders don't see that you're interested and drive up the price. When eSnipe bids, it'll bid one penny over whatever the highest price is, so long as it's below your maximum. You do have to pay a small fee (pennies per win).  

HTH

Pip

Hang about - I've quite often put in a bid when one already exists and it rejects my bid saying it must be more than 20p or more than 50p or whatever above the existing bid by someone else... so wouldn't this eSnipe fail?

Mind you, I'm distinctly weird with eBay - I decide what I would pay if I say he thing in a charity shop, and then put in a bid for that-minus-the-postage, ie the total is my "happy to pay that amount" and then I just leave it til I get a notification one way or the other...  It means I never pay more than I intended, and I rarely lose something I really want because if I really want it I put in what I would be prepared to pay... and I still seem to get great bargains  

To be honest, it's a while since I last bid on anything on eBay, so I've misremembered the minimum increment.  eSnipe will bid whatever the minimum increment is. 

- Pip