Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2021

Floss

Queen Jess, can you use bits of old leggings to double line your current ones?

QueenJess

Floss said:

Queen Jess, can you use bits of old leggings to double line your current ones?

Ur, that’s a bunch of stuff I don’t know how to do 😆. To be fair, I only have three pairs that I use to lounge around the house in and that’s it. They all have various holes that have been sewn up and I bought them all second hand.

Siebrie

I've made a netted baggy for my soap slithers.

Baggy: large corner from a 'delicate laundry' bag that was falling apart

Elastic band to close it: old hair elastic from dds

soap slithers: all the leftover bits from the last 6 months that used to be lying about on the soap tray in the bathroom

Result: it foams up a treat!

YorksLass

Minimise - I've been through my yarn stash (again) and have put some oddments that I won't use into a bag for the CS.  I did, however, keep back some white cotton yarn that I'll use to knit a couple of dishcloths.  A bit of a make-do as well I suppose.

Make do - I've sorted out some sets of buttons from my (large) button stash to sew onto a couple of short sleeved cardigans that I've knitted so I don't need to buy any new ones.

mandy47

Large bag of books dropped off at the chazza shop.
Hem repaired on work trousers.
Side seam repaired on my gillet.
Washing line temporary repair. I need a new hook. Sure I have one in the garage, will have a good rummage tomorrow and hopefully find it and other useful items as well.

YorksLass

A minimise and make do in one - I was about to add a jar of mixed herbs to my shopping list but have made up my own using the herbs I already have.  Thyme, oregano, sage, parsley and basil.  The only one I didn't have was marjoram but I don't think that will  matter too much.

Another use-up in the pipeline is planned for some odd full balls of cotton knitting yarn.  I've sorted them into blues/greens/yellows and purple/pinks/reds and am going to use them as striped bands on the bottom of sleeves and body sections of two jumpers.  I'm thinking maybe a pale grey body for the blues/greens and cream or off white for the pinks/reds.  

Floss

QueenJess said:

Floss said:

Queen Jess, can you use bits of old leggings to double line your current ones?

Ur, that’s a bunch of stuff I don’t know how to do 😆. To be fair, I only have three pairs that I use to lounge around the house in and that’s it. They all have various holes that have been sewn up and I bought them all second hand.

It's  just like putting a patch on but inside, on the areas of most wear. If you cut a patch to fit the full width  it can be sewn securely to the side seams & then just running stitch across to keep it in place.

I used to do that to my sons' school trousers 😁

Siebrie

Last night I had had it and skipped my gymnastics class to do some mending!

Mended:

1 ripped seam in dd1's summer dress

11 socks

3 pairs of tights

1 pair of pants

1 small hole in dd2's jeans jacket. She now has a summer jacket and we won't have to buy new

1 pair of pyjama pants

Out (unmendable):

1 vest

3 socks

2 hoods (just the hoods, they were attached to jackets at some point, with buttons. The buttons had come loose, and I had planned to reattach them, but decided not to bother. Dds don't remember their jackets having hoods.)

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

I know it says 2021 in the title 🙂

Over the last week or so I have mended 2 T-shirts, a woollen jumper & have done a Sashiko type repair on my camouflage trousers 

London_1

Minimising 

One of my 8 kitchen cupboards yesterday, Had a good sort out of ancient stuff that had been pushed to the back of the cupboard and forgotten I am 5'4' and my top cupboard often get clogged with things I shove in meaning to put away properly, then forget and stick something else in front of them and eventually stuff gets easily forgotten.I had a spar pack of cornflour ?Why I've no idea as I don't use it often and it had been at the back of the cupboard far too long and we exceedingly out of dat by several years so that was binned along with various other ancient stuff that evenI wouldn't use.Some dried herbs that were almost powder I now have one kitchen cupboard thats sprkling clean and full of stuff that will be used.I listed all thats in there and stuck the list to the inside of the door  
Only another 7 cupboards to go I think perhaps the storage cupboard today full of empty storage pots ,tupperware (minus lids of course ) and lids that don't match anything else I am hoping to move house next year so decluttering is a must at the moment 

Make do 

I am on holiday from next Friday so mainly eating from existing stocks Today the last HM meal from the freezer so the freezer will get defrosted at last
I am at DD for dinner tomorrow and Thursday so only really Mon,Tues,and Wed meals to fine and I have enough in the fridge and cupboards to feed myself with so No shopping foodwise, until mid July when I come home from my holiday. 

I have   squirrelled away enough over the past6 months to restock my freezer when I come home so will do a 'big' shop then for meat fish etc. Forward planning for the coming winter  

JackieO xx