2021 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

MrsCD

Lovely blanket @CAFCGirl. The colours go well together and I'm sure you'll be very cozy in your reading corner.😁

thriftwizard

@Laura_Elsewhere, that skirt is positively triumphant! A wonderful use of the fabric, comfortable, practical & really rather elegant too. I've had someone tell me that that was, in fact, a Laura Ashley fabric that was "remaindered" back in the late 70s. She used to run one of our local fabric shops so knows her stuff. Apparently they didn't always "sign" it back then, as they did from the early 80s onwards.

@CAFCGirl that blanket looks marvellously cosy, just right for a reading chair in autumn. Beautifully done.

I've been busy between the new grandson & the business, and have neither bought nor made anything - except a bunch of lavender hearts out of old, stained table linen, which I originally made as stall-dressing but seem to be selling rather well - for weeks! Time to get cracking; I'm overdue a wardrobe sort-out too.

CAFCGirl

Baileys_Babe said:

I love your autumn blanket @CAFCGirl are the sections sewn together or have you joined them using some other method?

Thankyou 
Its 136 individual squares, then I sewed them together side to side in order (obviously), to make rows, and then the full rows were sewn together.
Only a couple of mistakes early on with the sewing near one of the ears but I can live with it   

Baileys_Babe

CAFCGirl said:

Baileys_Babe said:

I love your autumn blanket @CAFCGirl are the sections sewn together or have you joined them using some other method?

Thankyou 
Its 136 individual squares, then I sewed them together side to side in order (obviously), to make rows, and then the full rows were sewn together.
Only a couple of mistakes early on with the sewing near one of the ears but I can live with it   

Thank you, one day my loom knitting might progress beyond the current large chunky socks, intended to only be put on to keep the chill off whilst watching telly and then I can consider making a blanket or similar. 

CAFCGirl

Baileys_Babe said:

CAFCGirl said:

Baileys_Babe said:

I love your autumn blanket @CAFCGirl are the sections sewn together or have you joined them using some other method?

Thankyou 
Its 136 individual squares, then I sewed them together side to side in order (obviously), to make rows, and then the full rows were sewn together.
Only a couple of mistakes early on with the sewing near one of the ears but I can live with it   

Thank you, one day my loom knitting might progress beyond the current large chunky socks, intended to only be put on to keep the chill off whilst watching telly and then I can consider making a blanket or similar. 

Another loom knitter! HUZZAH!
We're few and far between.
If you can knit some socks, you can most definitely knit a blanket!
Always happy to help if you need any 

Baileys_Babe

Thanks, @CAFCGirl my socks are very simple and only use basic stitches, my sister wrote the pattern and I try and follow it. I need and want to spend some time practising different stitches, loom & peg sizes, yarns etc I need to make a plan and then stick to it.

I've just read your signature we too are a one income home educating family 😊

Liverpool_Anne

@CAFCGirl, lovely foxy blanket
@Laura_Elsewhere, I can totally see that fabric being Laura Ashley
Take care everyone

TwibbleDee

Uh oh.  I just bought 5 pairs of jeans because practically all of mine either don’t fit or are so worn out, I rather worry about the inner thighs.  At 6 each, that means I’m down 30!  11 coupons left…and I have to figure out new shirts as well because those are falling apart as well!

Hmmm…I don’t think our “ration” takes into account how much quicker modern clothing falls apart if you haven’t time to sew your own!

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Coupons 66 + 16 = 82. Spent 11 + 5 + 16 + 7 + 30 = 69. I make that 13 coupons left 😉 You are trying to rob yourself of coupons TwibbleDee 😉

PipneyJane

Thank you, @Mrs_Salad_Dodger for checking @TwibbleDee’s points.  (Can’t have one of those spivs in the market nicking her coupons.)

TwibbleDee said:

Uh oh.  I just bought 5 pairs of jeans because practically all of mine either don’t fit or are so worn out, I rather worry about the inner thighs.  At 6 each, that means I’m down 30!  11 coupons left…and I have to figure out new shirts as well because those are falling apart as well!

Hmmm…I don’t think our “ration” takes into account how much quicker modern clothing falls apart if you haven’t time to sew your own 

Curiously, I’ve just watched a Levi’s ad where the theme was “make better, buy better, buy less, waste less, make a difference, buy Levi’s”.  It was only on the last frame that it mentioned Levi Jeans.  The message was clear, though:  “Don’t buy disposable clothes, buy us instead.”

(Personally, the biggest driving factor in my current choice of jeans is whether the front pockets fit my phone.  Seriously, a phone is an essential piece of kit these days and it needs to be kept safe and secure.)


@CAFCGirl. Love the blanket.  It looks very cozy.

- Pip