2021 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

Cherryfudge

My end of year total: 46 coupons remaining. This isn't because I've been ultra careful but because I had a lot left over from 2019 to work through before starting on this year's. I've also largely resisted buying socks!

Cherryfudge

Laura_Elsewhere said:

You're braver than I - intarsia is so legendarily complex to get right (and I know from the pics you posted that you *do* get it right) 

Thank you. I'm afraid the ellies aren't as forgiving as that lovely thick fluffy grey yarn though. I can see I've pulled it a bit too tightly in places so there are, if not holes, at least thin places and slightly skew-whiff baby elephants! The back is still a mess: I was brought up to make the backs of things as near perfect as possible and when it comes to embroidery I do a fair job but this...

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

Good point, @CAFCGirl - all evacuees are definitely welcome here in Much Mending on the Borrow! 

I'm just about to start baking - if anyone's around this afternoon, I could do with some help putting the mince pies and cheese savoury nibbles into the tins....

Mmmmm...... Recipes, please, @Laura_Elsewhere !

Best keep the cheese nibbles away from me.  I have a savoury, not a sweet tooth, although I do like a mince pie, too.

Very good point @CAFCGirl.  At 2,770+ posts, we'd be a hard thread to read from the start and that's before you add in the previous two years of chatting.  (The 2020 thread ran to 1989 posts; while the 2019 thread clocked up 1,000.)

- Pip

TwibbleDee

I completely blew my coupons out of the water.  We’re not even trying to figure out how many extra I used.  

PipneyJane

Cherryfudge said:

Laura_Elsewhere said:

You're braver than I - intarsia is so legendarily complex to get right (and I know from the pics you posted that you *do* get it right) 

Thank you. I'm afraid the ellies aren't as forgiving as that lovely thick fluffy grey yarn though. I can see I've pulled it a bit too tightly in places so there are, if not holes, at least thin places and slightly skew-whiff baby elephants! The back is still a mess: I was brought up to make the backs of things as near perfect as possible and when it comes to embroidery I do a fair job but this...

@Cherryfudge, I feel your pain.  You may want to consider sewing on a backing rather than weaving in the 3-million ends.

TwibbleDee said:

I completely blew my coupons out of the water.  We’re not even trying to figure out how many extra I used.  

Don't despair @TwibbleDee.  Even if you are over, you may still be eligible for an award.  The award levels are:

Platinum Award - less than 66 coupons spent
Gold Award - 66 coupons spent
Silver Award - between 66 and 86 coupons spent
Bronze Award - between 87 and 100 coupons spent

- Pip 

Cherryfudge

PipneyJane said:

Platinum Award - less than 66 coupons spent
Gold Award - 66 coupons spent
Silver Award - between 66 and 86 coupons spent
Bronze Award - between 87 and 100 coupons spent

And for anyone overspending more than the above, blackout fabric is coupon free and you can bet your bottom dollar someone has already made a little black dress from it.

Blackout Award, anyone?!

Cherryfudge

PipneyJane said:

@Cherryfudge, I feel your pain.  You may want to consider sewing on a backing rather than weaving in the 3-million ends. - Pip 

Genius, thank you so much. I'll have a look this afternoon: white fleece would not only look better but be safer for baby fingers. 

CAFCGirl

31 spent for me.
Although I do feel like I probably cheat the system a little as some of the yarn I bought this year was for my business so I don't count it out of my coupons - that's on someone else LOL

Gem-gem

diminua said:

Another yes please to a new thread here, and some shiny awards to finish this one with a bang. 

I don't have a view on the rolling over of coupons from 2020 or even 2019, but I'd like to roll over what remains of this year into 2022. 

I have 27 coupons left and doubt I'll spend them by the 31st as I've got all my Christmas presents in now (its a good thing we don't have soap coupons btw. One small box of truffles was about three weeks' coupons, some fancy tea one week's, and those would be doable really, I think, if you cared enough to buy someone anything at all, but my 550gm fancy bubbles for my Dad would have cost - if my information and calculations are correct - 39 coupons. You got four a month, so that would be impossible). 

Thank goodness, we are not doing the chocolate/sweets ration. Was it 50g a week? I'll have to go and check. BIL normally buys me a big box of Lindt balls and DH treats me to a couple of different items from Hotel chocolat. 

I will have to check how many weeks with on Saturday. (Mind you it might do my waistline some good if we did!!!)

edit
Weekly sweet rations were just four ounces (113g)

Laura_Elsewhere

@Gem-gem - 12oz every four weeks for sweets - and 8oz sugar a week - and 1lb of preserves six times a year. 

It's less than it sounds....

Here's a hand list, weekly rations for one adult (it varied, but this gives an idea)

• Bacon & Ham         4 oz
• Other meat            value of 1 shilling and 2 pence (equivalent to 2 chops)
• Butter                      2 oz
• Cheese                     2 oz
• Margarine              4 oz
• Cooking fat            4 oz
• Milk                       3 pints
• Sugar                    8 oz
• Preserves            1 lb every 2 months
• Tea                        2 oz
• Eggs                     1 fresh egg (plus allowance of dried egg)
• Sweets                  12 oz every 4 weeks