2020 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

I feel very much like I might have done in wartime in this situation...

My chap asked me to marry him, and I said yes.

So I am sporting my late Gran's 1933 ring, grinning like a mad thing, and realising that although I still have lots of coupons (must update my signature as I did spend some), of course I'm in the equivalent situation of not being able to go and buy anything I like in the shops...! 

I have absolutely no idea when, but probably next winter, not before November, assuming we're all spared, as the old ladies of my Calvinist East-Scotland childhood used to say! I don't know, November to February, maybe? Probably? perhaps?

And no idea what to wear... let alone where to buy or what to make or anything!  

But very smiley... 

Congratulations Laura! 

I am so pleased for you.  I’ll do a “happy dance” for you both ‘round my kitchen, in a second.  Yay!!!!!!!!!

- Pip

PipneyJane

skogar said:

PipneyJane - What a lovely jumper. I'm afraid I am very much a beginner and to knit something as lovely as that is completely beyond me. I hope you manage to get the stain out. I had an idea which is probably terrible but as you are an experienced knitter you might be able to tell if it would work or not. Do you have any of the same wool left or something of a similar colour you could use. There's a way that you can sew a pattern onto a jumper so it looks like its knitted - I've seen it called duplicate stitch. Could you do that over the top of the stain. Maybe it would be too thick or maybe it wouldn't work if it is on the fancy part of the pattern. Maybe you could strand the wool to make it thinner? Sorry for the vagueness.

That is an excellent idea!  If the milk-trick doesn’t work completely, I will have a go with duplicate stitch.

Don’t under-rate your abilities.  All knitting is just a combination of patience, perseverance  and using one of two stitches at any given moment.   Knitting a jumper is no harder than knitting a scarf or a hat or a pair of socks.  It just takes longer.

- Pip

ConstantKathyPatient38

Many Congratulations Laura - to you and your chap - lovely to have some happy news.
It has taken me some time to feel (mentally) able to do any sewing, in spite of being one of the 3 months seclusion brigade. Last week did some summer trousers, for which I'd made a block at class in January. Turned out well, after I'd eventually realised I had the invisible zipper foot in back to front...….. The last two days been doing double thickness cotton face masks for the family, 3 each, but now ran out of stash elastic. Got thin tape so that will have to do for the remainder. Oh and the Thermostat went on the 13 year old oven at lunchtime so that will take priority to be sorted out. Hope the "deliver, install and take away the old one" still applies.
I am very grateful to have sewing to focus on, even at a pretty basic level at present. Any hobby seems to help take one's mind off it all.
Keep well everyone.

basketcase

Congratulations Laura!

maddiemay

Laura congratulations to you and your chap, I am grinning like a loon on reading your news too.  Something happy and cheerful in these difficult times, thank you for sharing with us here.
MM x

PipneyJane

dolly84 said:

Pip, if your stain removal doesn't work would a little scarf knotted or in a scarf ring cover the stain?

That’s a good idea for a last resort, Dolly.   Thank you.   A scarf in a ring might do it, particularly since I could fix the ring to the jumper from underneath, in order to keep it in position.

- Pip

PollyWollyDoodle

Oh, congratulations Laura. That’s brought a huge smile to my face, and I’m so pleased for you. Well, you may not be able to buy anything but at least you can sit and make plans - I really look forward to hearing what your wedding dress is going to be like!

thriftwizard

Laura, that's such lovely news! Congratulations to you both, and I too shall wait on tenterhooks to see your dress!

keepcalmandcraft

Congratulations Laura! What lovely news!

Laura_Elsewhere

PollyWollyDoodle said:

Oh, congratulations Laura. That’s brought a huge smile to my face, and I’m so pleased for you. Well, you may not be able to buy anything but at least you can sit and make plans - I really look forward to hearing what your wedding dress is going to be like!

Thankyou everyone! I wasn't sure about posting it but then saw how much friends and family all seemed to mention how nice to hear good news so thought I would!

Polly, at present, I am still whirling ideas around madly, but I am considering a deep rich warm grey, a storm-cloud grey, blue behind the pal-black, if that makes sense, with what I call "stained-glass window colours" for contrast - that rich crimson, bright ruby-pink, bright-scarlet, vivid-green, glowing amber, dark ultramarine blue... in other words, I can't choose what colour so am considering combining lots, with deep warm grey as the background!  

I'd want to wear it again, often, so probably a mid-calf-length skirt, 3/4 or full circle, with jolly practical pockets, obviously, and a little fitted jacket, possibly a 40s-style peplum but I'm not sure about that, and a hat of course! At present I have no idea how the colours will work - one idea would be to have a wide band at the hem of the skirt in patchwork designs using the colours, and the same on the pocket-tops and waistband, and patchwork lining in the jacket, but whether I can actually design, cut *and* make all the patchwork as well as make the skirt and jacket in the time, given how slow I always am at things... Not sure!