2021 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

Cherryfudge

florianatwobob said:

Thank you @Cherryfudge I honestly can’t remember which crochet stitch it was without fishing out the pattern. There were a number of relatively obscure stitches. I remember however wondering how on Earth it was going to work, but it did!

Well done with your jumper. It will be good to see it when you’re finished  

It certainly did - I would never have come up with that!

Thank you re jumper. My friends call it 'the ninetieth birthday present' (for DH) because it's taken me so long. Now closer to three weeks' work left, not thirty years.

PipneyJane said:

@Cherryfudge - it's crochet.  To get the effect of the tendons, you can do a couple of things:-

1. Instead of crocheting through the loops at the top of a stitch, you crochet around the stem of it instead, so that the loops stand proud of the fabric.  Or
2. Crochet the main fabric.  When it is finished, work a line of slip-stitches down it, so that they attach at right angles to the main fabric.

Do the above make sense?  (This is educated guesswork.  I don't know which technique @florianatwobob used.)

Perfect sense, thank you. I really need to avoid this thread sometimes!! It can send me off on wonderful potential projects when I need to build new skills gradually and consolidate what I've already tried. To be fair quite a lot of consolidation has been happening and I'm not ready for some of the 'wonderful ifs' that call my name, despite having bookmarked a few.

I'm not leaving; you're all far too interesting and besides, no one else talks in coupons and the tub of flowers by my Mendings door is still flowering bravely.

PipneyJane

Cherryfudge said:

florianatwobob said:

Thank you @Cherryfudge I honestly can’t remember which crochet stitch it was without fishing out the pattern. There were a number of relatively obscure stitches. I remember however wondering how on Earth it was going to work, but it did!

Well done with your jumper. It will be good to see it when you’re finished  

It certainly did - I would never have come up with that!

Thank you re jumper. My friends call it 'the ninetieth birthday present' (for DH) because it's taken me so long. Now closer to three weeks' work left, not thirty years.

PipneyJane said:

@Cherryfudge - it's crochet.  To get the effect of the tendons, you can do a couple of things:-

1. Instead of crocheting through the loops at the top of a stitch, you crochet around the stem of it instead, so that the loops stand proud of the fabric.  Or
2. Crochet the main fabric.  When it is finished, work a line of slip-stitches down it, so that they attach at right angles to the main fabric.

Do the above make sense?  (This is educated guesswork.  I don't know which technique @florianatwobob used.)

Perfect sense, thank you. I really need to avoid this thread sometimes!! It can send me off on wonderful potential projects when I need to build new skills gradually and consolidate what I've already tried. To be fair quite a lot of consolidation has been happening and I'm not ready for some of the 'wonderful ifs' that call my name, despite having bookmarked a few.

I'm not leaving; you're all far too interesting and besides, no one else talks in coupons and the tub of flowers by my Mendings door is still flowering bravely.

Glad to hear you aren't leaving us, @Cherryfudge.  If I had time and the inclination, I could fall down the crochet rabbit hole.  I have the skills, but I'd rather knit.

Speaking of which, I am trying to decide what my next project will be.  I have 10 balls (960m) of Sublime "Phoebe" in colourway 464, which has been lurking in the bottom of the stash for far too long. I am tempted to do another Owl's sweater, mainly because it's easy, fast, and I have enough yarn, but part of me wants to knit something new.  (I've done one already, in white.)   If anyone has other suggestions, that'd be appreciated.

- Pip

MrsCD

Yes, I agree the ribs on the wings look like front/back post crochet, and in between looks like back loop only crochet.It is an amazing work of art!
Sorry I've been mia lately. I've been busy helping DH chop down trees and bushes! 

florianatwobob

I don’t remember working round the post but that doesn’t mean I didn’t……

edited to add that I’ve just checked the pattern and they were front and back post trebles

5 x front post trebles followed by 1 x back post treble (5 times) then 5 x back post trebles and 1 x front post treble (5 times)

PipneyJane

MrsCD said:

Yes, I agree the ribs on the wings look like front/back post crochet, and in between looks like back loop only crochet.It is an amazing work of art!
Sorry I've been mia lately. I've been busy helping DH chop down trees and bushes! 

Careful, @MrsCD, or you'll get roped into trimming the trees at the back of the Cricket Pitch. 

- Pip

Cherryfudge

@PipneyJane, the owls are extremely cute!

Liverpool_Anne

@PipneyJane, those owls are really cute . There is a phoebe pattern book on offer at englishyarns that might have some ideas you could use, I don't know what is in the book or if it is on revelry sorry.

PipneyJane

Liverpool_Anne said:

@PipneyJane, those owls are really cute . There is a phoebe pattern book on offer at englishyarns that might have some ideas you could use, I don't know what is in the book or if it is on revelry sorry.

Thanks @Liverpool_Anne, I will have a look.

- Pip

Laura_Elsewhere

I wonder how Armistice Day felt in 1942... 

So much that I take for granted about growing up in, and living in, Britain came out of that terrible 1914-1918 conflict - from school dinners and the NHS to my right to vote and to assume certain protection at work, and a thousand other rights alongside... 

I wear my great-great-uncle's 1914-18 Campaign Medal every Armistice Day, on a ribbon round my neck, tucked inside my cardigan, and I think of that day in 1918 when the guns stopped. On the south coast of England it was sometimes possible to hear the war, across 30 miles or so of the Channel, and I hope there was birdsong that November day. All over Britain there would have been people for whom it came too late, who must have wept bitterly at their losses, knowing that when the troops came home, so many millions would stay in the war cemeteries, and even now half a million or so still in the mud of the battlefields, periodically emerging as a field is ploughed or foundations dug for a new house... 

I wonder how they felt as the sirens sounded for yet more raiders overhead in 1942, sitting in their shelters and wondering when this one would end, if it ever would end... 

florianatwobob

Laura_Elsewhere said:

I wonder how Armistice Day felt in 1942... 

So much that I take for granted about growing up in, and living in, Britain came out of that terrible 1914-1918 conflict - from school dinners and the NHS to my right to vote and to assume certain protection at work, and a thousand other rights alongside... 

I wear my great-great-uncle's 1914-18 Campaign Medal every Armistice Day, on a ribbon round my neck, tucked inside my cardigan, and I think of that day in 1918 when the guns stopped. On the south coast of England it was sometimes possible to hear the war, across 30 miles or so of the Channel, and I hope there was birdsong that November day. All over Britain there would have been people for whom it came too late, who must have wept bitterly at their losses, knowing that when the troops came home, so many millions would stay in the war cemeteries, and even now half a million or so still in the mud of the battlefields, periodically emerging as a field is ploughed or foundations dug for a new house... 

I wonder how they felt as the sirens sounded for yet more raiders overhead in 1942, sitting in their shelters and wondering when this one would end, if it ever would end... 

I wear my poppy with pride every November because I have a family of old soldiers and sailors.  I also have a very close friend who is serving so I have an ‘adopted regiment’ and a childhood friend still serving in the RN. 

If anyone has an interest in the ‘golden age of crime’ Dorothy L Sayer’s ‘The unpleasantness at the Bellona Club’ is set partly on Armistice Day in the very early 20s and was written at the same time. It gives an alternative view of Armistice Day which is interesting.