2022 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

TwibbleDee

PipneyJane said:

What’s a “triangia” @skogar?  I’ve never heard of them.  (I have a fondue pot.)

- Pip

Tiny alcohol stove used for backpacking: https://smile.amazon.com/Trangia-Spirit-Burner-with-Screwcap/dp/B000AR7970/

I have a JetBoil, which can really only be used for boiling water.  I broke it out to make coffee the first morning during the big freeze in Texas last year - we didn't have power for several days: https://smile.amazon.com/Jetboil-Camping-Cooking-System-Carbon/dp/B0753NBMJ5/

skogar

As twibbledee says it's a meths burner very similar to that on a fondue pot. What twibbledee has posted is a picture of the burner which as she says can be used on their own by lightweight backpackers or wih a very small windshield. My set up is the very traditional (i.e. not at all lightweight) one as shown. they are slow to boil water but wind has little effect so works better than a fondue pot for exposed locations and looses less heat. the full set up looks something like this. On this picture the frying pan is on top. It is also the lid for the pans. I'm sure you will have seen them. Unfortunately meths prices have increased a lot so it's quite expensive to run now. I usually use a paraffin pressure stove (much cheaper than gas or meths) but not inside - it's a bit too vicious! Apologies for missing capitals. I have a sticking button on my keyboard and am getting round it with copy and paste!

the jet boils are great water boilers twibbledee. Much quicker than a trangia :-)

Cherryfudge

maryb said:

Cherryfudge that was an interesting article, thank you.  But on reading it, it assesses the risk of electricity power cuts as 1 in 10 not gas and there would have to be overwhelming stress on the electricity supply before the three stage gas emergency protocol is invoked.  So very unlikely though not impossible if we have another very cold winter 

Thanks @maryb, I was rather tired when I read it and managed to get it the wrong way round! It's somewhat reassuring. Hopefully we will avoid gas cuts though having had a recent power outage in our town, I'm not optimistic about avoiding normal electrical power cuts.

@Laura_Elsewhere, I never knew that about charcoal fumes, it's a scary thought. DS who brought the BBQ to near the back door always did have a tendency to his own version of the rules! 

My friend and I were out for coffee today and discovered that in place of a newspaper rack, this particular cafe had a series of magazines with excerpts from very old women's magazines, and also a handwritten recipe book from 1941! We were in stitches over some of the hats and my friend entirely failed to persuade me to knit a balaclava for DH, but I did photograph some of the recipes: a chocolate pudding including grated potato was one of them. 1941 certainly had some imaginative cooks! I also fell for a pattern for a knitted lady doll in ARP uniform in one of the magazines. Such as shame the instructions were illegible, but I do have rather a lot of projects to get through already.

florianatwobob

In one of those odd coincidences after @Laura_Elsewhere mentioned poisonous charcoal fumes I was listening to a ‘radio play’ (Audible)) of The Greek Interpreter by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (read by that lovely Mr Fry). The story also mentioned the poisonous nature of charcoal fumes. 

skogar

Spends to report.

1 pr quick drying shorts. 5 coupons. Finally found some suitable ones (and less than half price because there was a small hole where some sewing on a seam had come undone. Will take 5 minutes to fix them.

1 pr thermal leggings. 2 coupons.

PipneyJane

Hi All

Firstly, I've just replenished the cake tin.  We had some carrots going ropey in the fridge, so I made carrot cake last night.  It turned  out quite fudgy, so you may need to eat it with a spoon.

Second, thanks everyone for explaining about Trangia spirit burners.  

@Cherryfudge, if they listed the source for the ARP doll, it may be possible to find an image online.  The National Library of Australia's Trove project is freely available and has scans of all the old newspapers and magazines published in Australia, which you can download/print to PDF.  It's a big rabbit hole to fall down - I can get lost there for hours.  (The link is to this pattern for a project I made nearly 10 years ago.)

- Pip

florianatwobob

Thinking about the ARP warden doll Toft did a book of crochet doll figures with some mix and match outfits I’m sure a homage to the original could be knocked up from various bits and pieces in there. 

Cherryfudge

PipneyJane said:

Hi All

Firstly, I've just replenished the cake tin.  We had some carrots going ropey in the fridge, so I made carrot cake last night.  It turned  out quite fudgy, so you may need to eat it with a spoon.

Second, thanks everyone for explaining about Trangia spirit burners.  

@Cherryfudge, if they listed the source for the ARP doll, it may be possible to find an image online.  The National Library of Australia's Trove project is freely available and has scans of all the old newspapers and magazines published in Australia, which you can download/print to PDF.  It's a big rabbit hole to fall down - I can get lost there for hours.  (The link is to this pattern for a project I made nearly 10 years ago.)

- Pip

Thanks Pip. I will have to go back to the cafe to check but I'm pretty sure there was a date by the article. I tried to click through to Trove but the computer is on go-slow so I'll try again later. Meanwhile I got to see your jumper, which I love. Have you worn it much? The collar detail is very 'of its time' but why on earth haven't we seen it since? It's very effective.

florianatwobob said:

Thinking about the ARP warden doll Toft did a book of crochet doll figures with some mix and match outfits I’m sure a homage to the original could be knocked up from various bits and pieces in there. 

You have me thinking, Floriana. I'm not sure my crochet is up to that standard yet but I could probably adapt a knitting pattern. Oh dear - what a friend used to call 'wonderful ifs'! There are so many nice things I'd like to attempt!

QueenJess

I haven’t logged in for ages. Found my last post in mid May on this thread! 

I’ve looked back and sadly I’m already over my coupons this year and I’ve had to order a couple of things for winter that I’m completely lacking and gave up after weeks of looking for what I wanted second hand. Fingers still crossed for getting some second hand leggings though.. I’ve bought 8 so far and 6 were refunded because they didn’t send them.. I only wanted two pairs as I currently have none!

I shall console myself with the fact that this year I used coupons to switch to period pants (I needed quite a few) and all other items I bought new were only from ethical, non fast fashion places (bar one item I just couldn’t find elsewhere) and they are very much loved and worn all the time. Clearly I need more practice though 😬.

Spends to declare (will declare other orders once they’ve arrived and I know they fit etc):
- Skirt* 7 coupons
- Long PJ bottoms for winter 6 coupons
- Period pants x4 8 coupons
- shorts for the summer (I had none that fit!) 5 coupons

I think that brings me up to 74 coupons. 

* love it so much that I could happily wear it daily!

PipneyJane

@Cherryfudge thank you.  I love the jumper but, because it is so distinct, can only wear it to work a couple of times each month during the winter.  It’s also very warm.  (Nobody notices if I wear a white t-shirt three days running, but everyone notices that jumper.*)

@QueenJess, we”ll just pretend that you’re in 1939 for this year and preparing for the War.  The important thing is that these are clothes you will wear for years, bought with thought, which will go with loads of other items in your wardrobe, so that you will get a lot of wear out of them.

- Pip



* This is a lesson I learned a long time ago, when I made a beautiful, petrol-blue Armani suit.  (Pattern from Vogue.). I put hours of work into that thing.  Very stylish.  Very distinctive. It stood out too much.  Every time I wore that suit, it drew compliments, but it meant that I couldn’t wear it often.  The first time i wore it to work, one of the managers commented that it was his favourite colour.  A few weeks later, I wore it again, took the afternoon off to go do an accounting exam and looked up to see him walking across the exam hall(!).  At the time, I was still a secretary and my bosses didn’t know I was studying.  I literally sank below my assigned desk, to hide from him.  Fortunately, his assigned seat was up at the top end of the hall and mine was at the back, so he didn’t see me.