2020 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

PollyWollyDoodle

The funny thing is, I like sewing fabric by hand. It’s just knitting! Your yarn looks beautifully organised Laura. 

CraftyLittleLisa

I have no spends to declare as such today but I managed to get to the allotment last weekend and I tidied the greenhouse.  I found loads of opaque tights that I had taken up there as they had holes and that in.  As I had a success the other week with repairing a pair of tights I decided to take them back home, give them a wash and see if I can repair them.  That will save me a bit of money as I am running out of opaque tights rapidly.

On the crafting side I am making progress on making a quilted yoga mat bag and I have also finished making another premature baby cardigan so I am slowly working through my stash whilst not adding excessively to my clothes hoard.  My current crafting and gardening projects are keeping me sane at the moment..

Take care everyone.

catherinekate

@PollyWollyDoodle I found a tank top I had knitted for my little one in my UFO cupboard. It needed two buttons sewing on and one loose end tying off. Why didn't I do this? Why do we all do this? I don't know. Luckily it still fits, although probably not for long!

@CraftyLittleLisa I am also mending all of my opaque tights and hoping they will make it through to summer. Although we had hail and snow today so summer feels very far away!

I wonder what "fashion" will be like this summer if we are still all shut away for much of the time. I usually buy just the odd bit of clothing to brighten up and modernise my fairly classic wardrobe. It will be interesting to see.

PipneyJane

catherinekate said:

@PollyWollyDoodle I found a tank top I had knitted for my little one in my UFO cupboard. It needed two buttons sewing on and one loose end tying off. Why didn't I do this? Why do we all do this? I don't know. Luckily it still fits, although probably not for long!

@CraftyLittleLisa I am also mending all of my opaque tights and hoping they will make it through to summer. Although we had hail and snow today so summer feels very far away!

I wonder what "fashion" will be like this summer if we are still all shut away for much of the time. I usually buy just the odd bit of clothing to brighten up and modernise my fairly classic wardrobe. It will be interesting to see.

God only knows what “fashion” will be this year.  This morning, I found myself wondering what is the fashionable skirt length in 2020 and, truth is, I have absolutely no idea!  Is it short, long, or knee length?  Not that I’ll be going near the office any time soon, but I fancy wearing a certain pink suit, which has a short skirt, not mini-mini but 2 inches above the knee.   I have no reference points for fashion, since I work in on the edge of town,  in a male dominated environment and virtually all the women wear trousers.   

- Pip

Laura_Elsewhere

PipneyJane said:

God only knows what “fashion” will be this year.  This morning, I found myself wondering what is the fashionable skirt length in 2020 and, truth is, I have absolutely no idea!  Is it short, long, or knee length?  Not that I’ll be going near the office any time soon, but I fancy wearing a certain pink suit, which has a short skirt, not mini-mini but 2 inches above the knee.   I have no reference points for fashion, since I work in on the edge of town,  in a male dominated environment and virtually all the women wear trousers.   

- Pip

Wear it and be damned!  

I suspect "fashion" may be all over the place, no particular ideals - I wonder how many brands will survive, actually - no shops, no LFW, no Milan and Paris shows... 

fwiwi, iirc the skirts this season were about to be mid-calf, with the prairie dress being omnipresent...

Me - I'm having a bit of a post-Great War theme, I think - I'm crocheting a lace yoke from the early 1920s, to make a camisole, and I have a few other ideas I'd like to try to make, from the inter-war era, so that's likely to be my fashion statement, modern takes on a century ago... 

diminua

Well my cushion cover hasn't turned up so far, but hopefully that means parcelforce are prioritising more important post. I know my actual postman is well, because I've started waving to him from my window in the mornings. It is very strange being here. I've realised I've been going into Central London every working day for 20 years, and often on the weekend too, and I don't know anyone in the area I actually live in, or if it's always this quiet during working hours in the week or purely the effect of the lockdown. 
I do have family not far away though. In fact the gin fairy called this afternoon - by which I mean my youngest aunt rang my buzzer and and left a bottle of sipsmiths and eight small bottles of tonic on the mat for me. Just to cheer me up I think, because this is our usual day for walking the dog (my cousin's dog), and because she has a car and I don't.

PipneyJane

diminua said:

Well my cushion cover hasn't turned up so far, but hopefully that means parcelforce are prioritising more important post. I know my actual postman is well, because I've started waving to him from my window in the mornings. It is very strange being here. I've realised I've been going into Central London every working day for 20 years, and often on the weekend too, and I don't know anyone in the area I actually live in, or if it's always this quiet during working hours in the week or purely the effect of the lockdown. 
I do have family not far away though. In fact the gin fairy called this afternoon - by which I mean my youngest aunt rang my buzzer and and left a bottle of sipsmiths and eight small bottles of tonic on the mat for me. Just to cheer me up I think, because this is our usual day for walking the dog (my cousin's dog), and because she has a car and I don't.

How lovely of your aunt!

I know what you mean about neighbours, particularly in London.  Throughout the 1990’s, I knew my sister’s neighbours in Australia better than I knew my own in London - and I only saw her neighbours every 4 years!

@Laura_Elsewhere, that lace yoke sounds lovely.  Mid-calf is fine for my 1930’s style tweed skirt.  Hmmmm.... isn’t there a theory that skirts fall in a recession and rise in a boom? Perhaps the new skirt length is an indicator of the health of the nation’s finances.  

- Pip 

dolly84

diminua said:

Well my cushion cover hasn't turned up so far, but hopefully that means parcelforce are prioritising more important post. I know my actual postman is well, because I've started waving to him from my window in the mornings. It is very strange being here. I've realised I've been going into Central London every working day for 20 years, and often on the weekend too, and I don't know anyone in the area I actually live in, or if it's always this quiet during working hours in the week or purely the effect of the lockdown. 
I do have family not far away though. In fact the gin fairy called this afternoon - by which I mean my youngest aunt rang my buzzer and and left a bottle of sipsmiths and eight small bottles of tonic on the mat for me. Just to cheer me up I think, because this is our usual day for walking the dog (my cousin's dog), and because she has a car and I don't.

On Friday the traffic where I live was worse than a normal Friday and there were people out and about all over the place, they were avoiding each other and the only larger groups were parents with kids out for a walk but the roads seem to be full of older couples in cars (like most days around here) I can't imagine where they are going but they seem incapable of staying at home.

Laura_Elsewhere

Off this evening to our local Sainsbury's for just a few things, mostly not the panic-buying stuff - porridge oats, lamb leg steaks, lemon juice, that kind of thing, and just a pint of milk. Hoping to be in and out very rapidly, and then that's us done for the rest of the week til next. 

I've got various Make Do & Mend projects to stretch my coupons, but like many people I find I'm lacking the oomph to get on with them.

I think I'm going to start my day with a brisk walk and see if that helps. I've lost quarter of a stone, but I think that's from fretting  

PollyWollyDoodle

I’m trying to go out for a walk every morning Laura, and on the days when I haven’t been out the day has not gone well. I’m used to working from home, but I’m finding it hard to structure my days at the moment. 

Sewing machine has been sitting on the dining table since Monday but nothing’s happening. Today I’ve been working all day, believe me I’m very grateful as I thought all my work would be cancelled, I will have the evening off and try and get some knitting done. I’m determined to clear the UFOs!