2021 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

Laura_Elsewhere

@CAFCGirl, I'll be making mince pies after lunch with the mincemeat I made last week, if you'd like to stick around to test them for me? All I can say to your pants weekend is "oh knickers!"... 

Here, have another mug of hot chocolate... 

Cherryfudge

Laura_Elsewhere said:

I've bought more knitting wool - Propagansey (who are brilliant, at Whitby Wholefoods in Whitby, lovely woman named Deb) had some irresistible Falklands Corriedale 5-ply gansey for £20/500g so I bought a kilo... um.... er....! Will need to adjust my signature by a teensy bit... 

I had to look up Propagansey, even though I'm not too far from them. Wow! I showed DH and he says I can knit him one next year...

The samples shown in the shop are beautiful colours.

I'm not sure people actually plan to increase their stashes. There's some sort of natural law whereby once yarn gets into a house, it attracts other yarn. A bit like cats finding cat lovers.

@CAFCGirl, I hope things look up for you. I'll just add these ginger and cinnamon biscuits to the tin, fresh from the oven...

Wraithlady

@CAFCGirl , I know your pain - I have a cable jumper that I've neglected for years because I just wasn't feeling it. Fortunately (or not, depends on your pov) I have more than enough other UFOs/projects to be getting on with so I just chose ones I wanted to do and I've now added said jumper to the weekly rota of Stuff To Be Finished Before I Do Other Things list.

Ooh, mincepies, you say? Don't mind if I do!

thriftwizard

Hello all, been Missing In Action for a bit, preparing for & doing a vintage fair yesterday, which included a workshop on mending... I contributed some Japanese-style visible mending of DD2's much-loved & pretty-much worn-out Levis, and my cashmere jumper with it's new "hemline" - and even sold a couple of jumpers with visible darns! Trying out the Japanese-style "boro/sashiko" mends was a learning curve, but makes sense of some of the patches & mends I've seen on vintage Japanese clothing, and boy oh boy, it works - makes the original garment much tougher!

Re thoughtful disposal of yarn stashes - my mother's care home, and many like it, accept yarn by the bucketload, which the residents then knit into blankets; just yesterday they contributed a basketful to the local homeless shelter, and have equipped the "senior" ward of the local cottage hospital with enough to keep them going for years. (Mind you, they also contribute patients on a regular basis!) So that's another possibility.

Plans for next year? Unknown as yet! I need to order some decent, tough leggings as I've worn OH's old cycle leggings right out now. That will come out of this year's coupons. But clothing-wise, I'm not sure I need anything else I can't find secondhand or make myself, though a wardrobe audit would be a very good idea...

PipneyJane

CAFCGirl said:

Reading everyone's plans for yarn stashs (including increasing them!) and the new years wardrobe has given me much joy on whats turning out to be a pretty pants weekend - thankyou ladies.
I might avail myself of the biscuit tin and sit in the corner of the village hall and eat my feelings.

I've been using up the ends of cotton yarn I was given to make cotton rounds, but I've totally stalled on the scarf I was knitting. I'm just not feeling it at all, so finishing it feels like such a slog, even though there's maybe 175g of it left to go *dramatic sigh*

In other news, no coupons spent recently so I think I'll be finishing the year with a few in the bank as it were

Big hugs @CAFCGirl.  Have a mug of mulled wine to go with @Laura_Elsewhere's minced pies.

- Pip

florianatwobob

Chin up @CAFCGirl you’ll never have to go through another weekend exactly like it and I’m sure that you’ve got a 100% success rate in surviving rubbish weekends. Hope the goodies and mulled wine are helping

florianatwobob

I think I’ll have to have a wardrobe audit. As I’m working from home 99% of the time I don’t need a ‘work wardrobe’ in the same way. I’ve also been moving towards clothes that cross over between work and not working so things are a lot more flexible. 

Baileys_Babe

I'm another who needs a wardrobe audit, I am currently in the process of losing the excess weight so I will need to add bits and pieces now and then to tide me over until I am a healthy size and shape, with the exception of underwear I am happy to buy second hand.
My long term aim is to have fewer clothes overall, but better quality.

CAFCGirl

florianatwobob said:

Chin up @CAFCGirl you’ll never have to go through another weekend exactly like it and I’m sure that you’ve got a 100% success rate in surviving rubbish weekends. Hope the goodies and mulled wine are helping

What an utterly glorious sentiment and just what the soul needed - thankyou!

Thanks to all for the supply of feeling satiating snacks and hot drinks, I am much obliged to you all.
The Universe's way of telling me to buck up and a 'seriously?! That's a first world kind of problem' is to give me a cold!
Nothing makes me appreciate life more than being able to breathe through my nose properly, and talk without sounding like a dull horn.

So launch all the spiced goodies at me ladies, and I'll sweat this thing out through my taste buds.

In more fortunate news, I did manage to get another 5 cotton rounds done yesterday and mini business wise had a few orders so that helps too.

@Wraithlady This scarf is my only UFO so it just sits in the basket, staring.... maybe if I give myself a small daily target of say 5 or 6 rows, I'll get back into it, and then soon enough be driven by the end being in sight.....

florianatwobob

@CAFCGirl it’s true, breathing through your nose is a truly underrated perk of the human body until it’s bunged up 

After nearly choking myself last week  with a cold + crumb + unexpectedly laughing and having inherited my mum’s faulty ‘breathing apparatus’ (thanks Mum) this breathing malarkey really should be fully appreciated at all times. 🙂