2022 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

Cherryfudge

Laura_Elsewhere said:

Could someone kindly give me just the teensiest bit of a swift kick up the sit-upon and tell em to stop faffing and get on with my skirt-making, please? 

Thankyou!

Get a move on! We want to see this skirt please!

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

Could someone kindly give me just the teensiest bit of a swift kick up the sit-upon and tell em to stop faffing and get on with my skirt-making, please? 

Thankyou!

Nag.  Nag, nag, nag…!

Hope this helps @Laura_Elsewhere

- Pip

Cherryfudge

Thank you for all the knitting needle suggestions everyone! I've been busy googling as I'd not heard of Verniers or Sugru.

I don't have the ends for the various headless needles: they are inherited or job lot strays so they are unlikely to turn up. I admit I will try the easiest solution (elastic bands! Thanks @PipneyJane) first for sheer convenience but it wouldn't make a long term solution as they crumble.

Callipers would be a perfect solution  for sizing and would save rummaging for a piece of holey plastic, but they cost a lot more so I'd want to justify the cost... though they probably have 101 other uses that I've yet to think of.  I forgot to check the places that sell yarn when I was in town in case I can get the holey plastic without paying postage.

Meanwhile my searching has come up with a Kintsugi kit - something I'd love to try so I'm off down another rabbit hole.

(Laura - skirt please!)

PollyWollyDoodle

I was going triggers Sugru, really useful stuff. 

I have an ancient metal knitting-needle gauge which I keep attached to my needle case, but it only goes up to UK size 1, I think it's guess-work above that. (I have a conversion chart for UK, US and mm sizes).

Now come on Laura, don't keep us waiting, we want to see the skirt!  

Laura_Elsewhere

You lot are *goooood*...!

Nothing to demonstrate yet, but I am about to clear stuff off the sewing machine!  

Laura_Elsewhere

Thankyou all! I got quite a lot done - machined the long seams, and started assembling the back yoke; found the right lining material and started the back-yoke lining; lost and then found my coil of boning and caps... 

I shall hope to do more tomorrow  

PipneyJane

I am soaked. We were at Lord’s for the first England vs Sth Africa test match, when the rain hit at 14:13.  Hung around, under our stand, until they abandoned play for the day at 16:30.   Everything except my handbag - which I put under my coat - is sopping wet.  However, this is the first time EVER in Britain that I have been drenched and not freezing cold.

Global warming is real, people.

- Pip

Cherryfudge

PipneyJane said:

I am soaked. We were at Lord’s for the first England vs Sth Africa test match, when the rain hit at 14:13.  Hung around, under our stand, until they abandoned play for the day at 16:30.   Everything except my handbag - which I put under my coat - is sopping wet.  However, this is the first time EVER in Britain that I have been drenched and not freezing cold.

Global warming is real, people.

- Pip

alas I think you're right. I'm trying to do my bit by watering the garden with grey water and having showers not baths but it'll take us all to turn the tide.

I hope you dry off soon.

Laura_Elsewhere

I've basically let everything in my little guerilla garden die. Some will come back, and one or two have surprised me by being pretty much fine - who knew snapdragons (antirrhinum) are drought-resistant?? - but many have gone. I plan to spend the winter researching and digging and really improving the soil, soil, soil, and then next year planting early, using plants and positioning that will make them far more resilient. 

MrsCD

My dad has a theory that once you start to water plants  they get thirsty for more. So his garden which is plants in pots on gravel and very narrow borders, is doing fine  mostly. Maybe he just foresaw climate change long before it was fashionable!