2020 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

lolly2481

[Sits in comfy chair 6 feet from the next one] Thanks Pip 😊 The shoes were definitely not made for the charity shop. They were Debenhams ones. £35 new, £10 I paid. So phew..no coupons used. 😁
Currently furloughed from work until at least mid-May but could be longer depending on how things, y'know, go 🤷‍♀️ 
I crochet, as a main craft/hobby. I have plenty of stash to work through before I need to use any coupons 🤣🤣
My current new found 'spare time' I am using to clean and tidy while the husband works from home ( a new thing for him too). Bit of crochet. Jigsaw puzzles. Fake tanned my legs this afternoon. Exciting stuff like that 🤣
I'm oop in Yorkshire, Leeds to be presise. Aaand. That's all 😂

skogar

Hi Laura,

Great news - looking forward to hearing your outfit ideas.  

Hi Lolly - Great to see you. The shoes sound like a great find.

lolly2481

Thanks, Skogar 👍 I was pleased with my find. I wore them to a wedding a couple of weeks before all 'this' really kicked off. The same wedding I 'used' a few coupons to buy a dress for. 
Laura..congratulations on your engagement. Enjoy the 'space' to enjoy planning your wedding. My husband proposed Christmas eve 2009 around 7.30am (this is important later..). I said I wanted to 'enjoy being engaged for a while before planning the wedding'. (I had to work that day.. the only christnas evening I have had to work) I had bought wedding magazines by 1PM same day 🤣🤣 ok, long story short..enjoy being engaged! Congratulations!  X

dolly84

lolly2481 said:

[Sits in comfy chair 6 feet from the next one] Thanks Pip 😊 The shoes were definitely not made for the charity shop. They were Debenhams ones. £35 new, £10 I paid. So phew..no coupons used. 😁
Currently furloughed from work until at least mid-May but could be longer depending on how things, y'know, go 🤷‍♀️ 
I crochet, as a main craft/hobby. I have plenty of stash to work through before I need to use any coupons 🤣🤣
My current new found 'spare time' I am using to clean and tidy while the husband works from home ( a new thing for him too). Bit of crochet. Jigsaw puzzles. Fake tanned my legs this afternoon. Exciting stuff like that 🤣
I'm oop in Yorkshire, Leeds to be presise. Aaand. That's all 😂

Welcome to the thread.  Another Yorkshire lass here, I am just outside of Brighouse. 

CAFCGirl

Welcome Lolly.
Sounds like you're doing well with your coupons!
No spends here any time soon. I won a lovely looking denim shirt blouse on ebay for the princely sum of 99p. Will fit with my artistic aesthetic well..... Now I'm on the hunt for harem trousers.
This weeks crafty mission is some cotton body puffs, and a yoga mat bag - all done on the loom. I may attempt to hem some fabric to use as a bandana. I also have some clay to play around with, and the goal is a trinket tray with ring holder.

PipneyJane

CAFCGirl said:

Welcome Lolly.
Sounds like you're doing well with your coupons!
No spends here any time soon. I won a lovely looking denim shirt blouse on ebay for the princely sum of 99p. Will fit with my artistic aesthetic well..... Now I'm on the hunt for harem trousers.
This weeks crafty mission is some cotton body puffs, and a yoga mat bag - all done on the loom. I may attempt to hem some fabric to use as a bandana. I also have some clay to play around with, and the goal is a trinket tray with ring holder.

Good eBaying, there, CAFCGirl.  99p is my favourite price.

I'm curious, now, as to everyone else's crafty missions for today/this week.  Today's crafty missions for me are:-

A-) Sew in the ends on my Blanche Too sweater, wash and block it.  (I finished the knitting last night.)
B-)  Knit the swatch for my Mithril Jumper.  I'll be knitting the Caradon Hill Sweater  pattern,  using the Stansbrough Fibres Mithril yarn from New Zealand.  This is the yarn used to weave the elven cloaks in Lord of the Rings.  My plan is to make a longer version of the jumper and to change the neckline to a crew neck.

- Pip

lolly2481

CAFCGirl said:

Welcome Lolly.
Sounds like you're doing well with your coupons!
No spends here any time soon. I won a lovely looking denim shirt blouse on ebay for the princely sum of 99p. Will fit with my artistic aesthetic well..... Now I'm on the hunt for harem trousers.
This weeks crafty mission is some cotton body puffs, and a yoga mat bag - all done on the loom. I may attempt to hem some fabric to use as a bandana. I also have some clay to play around with, and the goal is a trinket tray with ring holder.

Oooh..I've got some white clay too lying around. Need to find something to do with it 😆

lolly2481

And thank you everyone for the warm welcome 😊

PollyWollyDoodle

PipneyJane said:

I'm curious, now, as to everyone else's crafty missions for today/this week.  Today's crafty missions for me are:-

A-) Sew in the ends on my Blanche Too sweater, wash and block it.  (I finished the knitting last night.)
B-)  Knit the swatch for my Mithril Jumper.  I'll be knitting the Caradon Hill Sweater  pattern,  using the Stansbrough Fibres Mithril yarn from New Zealand.  This is the yarn used to weave the elven cloaks in Lord of the Rings.  My plan is to make a longer version of the jumper and to change the neckline to a crew neck.

- Pip

Well, I actually finished a UFO last week. Cardigan for a toddler, I just had to knit the collar, I don’t know why I abandoned it when it was so close to being finished. Couldn’t find any Suitable buttons so I’ve ordered some which should be arriving today or tomorrow. I’ve also knitted the missing sleeve on another cardigan, it needs some embroidery now, and then the neck and front bands picking up. 

Can I ask a question – do you block it and then sew it together, or sew it up and then block it? Blocking isn’t something I am very familiar with but I can see that this second cardigan really needs it.  

Other plans - I finally got the sewing machine out and set it up, and ran up a few summer dresses .... for Barbie, before you think I’m some sort of expert!  I promised these ages ago, and once the cardigan is done they can be sent off together. I do have plans for some proper sewing after this. 

Laura_Elsewhere

Thanks everyone! 

Thankfully, we're definitely not the big planned wedding sort! My mum was married in the mid-60s in a grey wool Jaeger shift-dress and boxy jacket, with a huge bubblegum-pink floppy-brimmed hat, so I don't think she's expecting "the full meringue"! My sister did that anyway, poor Mum had to make toiles (mock-ups in cheaper fabric for fit) and the eventual wedding dress in silk and silk-lace, floor-length wth a train, lace fitted sleeves with FORTY tiny buttons per sleeve, coming down in points over her hands with embroidery trim, fitted bodice and she LIED to mum about her size so at the final fitting it wouldn't do up, complete nightmare - oh and another forty-eight of those tiny buttons, all self-covered in the silk... Mum did all of that, and my peach silk bridesmaid's dress, all in 11 weeks flat, oh and had to go and buy her own frock and hat AND make and ice a three-tier wedding-cake! I think she's quite looking forward to not having to do any of that this time! 
We both have the kinds of families where we can either invite only the very closest, OR we can go one tier out and triple the numbers because if we invite one person outside the immediate 7 or 8, then we have to invite all the others or grudges will be held... so it will be very small and select! And just a meal or something, not a reception. Neither of us is much of a party animal, we barely drink any alcohol, and don't like crowds, so I think it will be a bit of a disappointment to our younger relatives!  

My chap's son, the one who so nearly died, is being his best man and I could not feel more thrilled to bits. 

On a more prosaic note - I was given some cheap linen last year and made a full-circle button-front skirt, hung it for 5 days and then hemmed it - over the following fortnight it stretched on the bias more bizarrely than I have ever seen fabric behave - parts are now FIVE INCHES longer than the straight-grain button-band which has remained the same. I'm going to get my chap to crawl round putting pins in, and measuring - he's very good at doing this! - and then I'll re-hem it, an inch or so shorter all round and six inches shorter in places. It looks almost like a handkerchief-hem skirt and I keep nearly standing on bits as I come upstairs. I'm just crocheting some narrow bands onto it to act as belt-loops (I couldn't find the leftover fabric without disturbing my chap who's working from home, so I'll use ecru crochet thread, size-10, which will go with the buttons which are ecru with pink flowers and green leaves on).