2021 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

Laura_Elsewhere

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

Long time lurker here 🙂 Only posting because I think Nonnadiluca has robbed herself of a coupon 😉 66-10=56?

Oh, how very kind of you to take the time to pop into the Village Hall with the coupon that you found lying in the street - Nonnadiluca will be pleased!

Oh look, now you're here, you must have a cup of tea? Coffee? Well, actually, I wouldn't try the coffee - it's that ersatz stuff and I rather suspect acorns are involved... but the gingerbread is jolly nice. Where's that bloomin' tin got to now? I swear it grows legs and runs away, you know... 

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

Long time lurker here 🙂 Only posting because I think Nonnadiluca has robbed herself of a coupon 😉 66-10=56?

Oh, how very kind of you to take the time to pop into the Village Hall with the coupon that you found lying in the street - Nonnadiluca will be pleased!

Oh look, now you're here, you must have a cup of tea? Coffee? Well, actually, I wouldn't try the coffee - it's that ersatz stuff and I rather suspect acorns are involved... but the gingerbread is jolly nice. Where's that bloomin' tin got to now? I swear it grows legs and runs away, you know... 

I had to hide it from the dog, again.  I'd swear he was a werewolf in disguise, the way he can get into the biscuit tin and cake tin.  (He might look like a scruffy terrier....)  It's on top of the china cabinet.

- Pip

PS:  @Mrs-Salad_Dodger, do come in and join us for a natter.

PipneyJane

Is anyone else expecting Noah to float past in his ark? It is tipping down here. Heaviest rain I've experienced outside a tropical storm/cyclone.  Just as well the village hall is above the flood plain.

- Pip 

Nonnadiluca

Mrs SD, thanks for noticing my basic maths error, every coupon counts!!

Laura_Elsewhere

I really must get on with drawing that map for the noticeboard... I shall try to have it done for the end of the year, so we all know just where we are next year, how's that?

What needs to go on it? The villages, of course - Much Mending on the Borrow, here with the Village Hall, and then Little Mending further along - and the Borrow, of course, meandering along in its flood plain... the Air Force base of course (has @TwibbleDee's pilot husband been posted to another base? Haven't seen her lately - hope all is well, Twibbers!)... and the cricket pitch... 

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

I really must get on with drawing that map for the noticeboard... I shall try to have it done for the end of the year, so we all know just where we are next year, how's that?

What needs to go on it? The villages, of course - Much Mending on the Borrow, here with the Village Hall, and then Little Mending further along - and the Borrow, of course, meandering along in its flood plain... the Air Force base of course (has @TwibbleDee's pilot husband been posted to another base? Haven't seen her lately - hope all is well, Twibbers!)... and the cricket pitch... 

You may have to designate that cricket pitch as a boating lake, if this rain keeps up.  It is in the official flood plain although it rarely floods that high.

- Pip

(Do we have a rowing club?  Perhaps they could use the undercroft of the village hall to store their shells?)

thriftwizard

Sadly, @Laura_Elsewhere, the Drops and Jamiesons have gone straight into DD2's stash, and a baby hat is already under construction! Plus she's taken some of the marble chunky. DS1's lovely partner has gone off clutching an armful of marble chunky, a self-striping sock yarn and some other bits "to practice on", I've got enough to weave several tri-shawls or even blankets, and the rest (mostly Paintbox acrylic DK) will be going off to the Activities Co-ordinator at Mum's care home, for the knitting group. But yes, please, to any spare odds & ends, and thank you for the kind offer!

@Liverpool_Anne, triangles tesselate nicely, so you can stitch (or crochet) 4 x 3½' pieces together to make a full 7' tri-shawl, or 8 to make a square blanket or poncho. I sometimes weave rags or silk selvedges on every other "peg" and stitch the resulting triangle into a bag. See https://www.ravelry.com/projects/thriftwizard/the-not-a-tri-shawl-bag; like the twined-weave rugs, it's a very simple form of weaving, but what you can do with the results is limited only by your imagination!

Liverpool_Anne

@Thriftwizard, thanks for the information. I did think you could stitch them together but was a bit confused as the utube thing I watched left the threads hanging on the sides to make a lovely fringe. I can be quite imaginative and I definitely want to give weaving a try, it's on my list
Take care everyone

Liverpool_Anne

@PipneyJane, thanks for the information re blocking, yes I always use a pressing cloth on woolen fabrics but to be honest I have never ironed a knitted or crocheted garment, I generally just pull them into shape when wet and leave them to dry, sometimes flat if they need it, but not always

TwibbleDee

Laura_Elsewhere said:

What needs to go on it? The villages, of course - Much Mending on the Borrow, here with the Village Hall, and then Little Mending further along - and the Borrow, of course, meandering along in its flood plain... the Air Force base of course (has @TwibbleDee's pilot husband been posted to another base? Haven't seen her lately - hope all is well, Twibbers!)... and the cricket pitch... 

Still here, just been fighting off respiratory crud for a few weeks and haven’t had a lot of energy by the time I make it through work and minimal housekeeping.  Not the current plague, just a summer cold, and I always have a time kicking them.