2022 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

Cherryfudge

Another seven coupons spent of socks: two men's pairs and one lady's pair. Gifts, I hasten to add. I found eleven pairs of winter socks in a bag of cold weather clothing so I don't need any more, but one immediately developed a hole so it will be needle and thread time when it comes out of the wash.

Liverpool_Anne

Hi all, spends to declare, a hooded sweat shirt for OH for Christmas so 28.5 - 5 = 23.5 remaining.
OH has suggested I make a couple of those super chunky blankets which I am happy to do but we are going to have to have some negotiations on the cost, money and coupons . OH then realised the huge bag of cream wool I found lurking behind the tv unit had been bought for me to make blankets. Of course it is nowhere near thick enough but I can do some blankets with it. 
Several years ago while at a craft show I saw a lady knitting with very thick needles which I suspect was the origin of these super chunky blankets. She was using multiple strands of different colours and selling kits , a lot more than I could afford. When I got home I dug out a big bag of yarn which I had inherited from my Mum, odds and ends of balls, bought a wooden broom handle, cut it in half and shaped it into a pair of needles. I made a small blanket. It turned out quite well but I was limited in size as I had no stops on the ends of the ' needles:. I might try something similar with the cs yarn I have left, though I would have to collect some more as there is nowhere near enough to make that sort of blanket. I will ponder it
Take care everyone

maryb

could you screw a wooden door knob onto the end of the broom handles?

PipneyJane

maryb said:

could you screw a wooden door knob onto the end of the broom handles?

If that isn't large enough, how about gluing on/screwing on a Pringles' lid?

HTH

Pip

Cherryfudge

Ooh, I had a similar situation with needles that had lost their ends, and the very inventive people here came up with a lot of good ideas, the easiest of which was to wrap rubber bands round the end of the needles. I'm not sure how well that would work on a broom handle, though.

I say a website once about double knitting, which I'd not realised originated as a term for a double-thickness knit that might work for your huge bag of cream wool. I think this is it. I can't tell you any more as it's not something I've tried but I do think it would be warmer than a single layer of chunky wool, and maybe lighter.

Laura_Elsewhere

afaik,, the British "double knitting" wool thickness isn't actually related to the American "double thickness" knitting technique - which, just to confuse things, has a history over here as well as in Canada and France and lots of other places! 
Double knitting wool originally meant just that - knitting wool was about 3-4 ply weight, and so if you knitted something in really chunky thick heavy weight that was called double knitting wool. They'd have been astonished and puzzled by all our super-thick yarns nowadays!!!  

Long, unshaped, stocking-caps, specifically, were knitted using what is nowadays called "double-knitting" as a long tube, and then folded in half and the two ends, cast-on and cast-off, both gathered together and closed, and often a tassel added for decoration - known as 'voyageur' caps. 
It didn't have a name in Britain because it was only really used for double-thickness caps, and then when it became trendy in America, maybe they just used a name that was familiar but not in use? 
They were usually knitted in about 4-ply weight and were long enough to have a good wide turn-up, meaning your ears had four thicknesses over them - designed for Canadian winters... 

Here are Sally Pointer's patterns on PayHip - the middle of the top row shows her Voyageur cap knitting pattern, modelled by her late husband Gareth
https://payhip.com/SallyPointer

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

afaik,, the British "double knitting" wool thickness isn't actually related to the American "double thickness" knitting technique - which, just to confuse things, has a history over here as well as in Canada and France and lots of other places! 
Double knitting wool originally meant just that - knitting wool was about 3-4 ply weight, and so if you knitted something in really chunky thick heavy weight that was called double knitting wool. They'd have been astonished and puzzled by all our super-thick yarns nowadays!!!  

Long, unshaped, stocking-caps, specifically, were knitted using what is nowadays called "double-knitting" as a long tube, and then folded in half and the two ends, cast-on and cast-off, both gathered together and closed, and often a tassel added for decoration - known as 'voyageur' caps. 
It didn't have a name in Britain because it was only really used for double-thickness caps, and then when it became trendy in America, maybe they just used a name that was familiar but not in use? 
They were usually knitted in about 4-ply weight and were long enough to have a good wide turn-up, meaning your ears had four thicknesses over them - designed for Canadian winters... 

Here are Sally Pointer's patterns on PayHip - the middle of the top row shows her Voyageur cap knitting pattern, modelled by her late husband Gareth
https://payhip.com/SallyPointer

I have been wracking my brain for a synonym for the name of the double knitting technique.  I'm sure there is one, but it isn't Brioche stitch, which was my first choice.

In the UK and Australia, excluding a yarn weight, I have only ever seen the term "double knitting" used to refer to a type of jersey fabric.

- Pip

MrsCD

As promised...one ice picture!

Nonnadiluca

MrsCD, that's absolutely lovely!

weenancyinAmerica

I knit my blankets using two skeins of yarn (4-ply) at once. Sometimes they are the same color and sometimes I use two different colors. Make nice heavy blankets that way. Sometimes I make squares, but often I just make long (however wide the blanket is to be) strips and then knit till I run out of yarn before starting with two new skeins. If I just start knitting by attaching the old ends, and continuing, I don't have to worry about sewing them together.