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2022 Fashion On The Ration Challenge
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LegitTrying35 said:Hi all 👋
I would like to join in for 2022 please?
I basically had a new wardrobe last year and invested in pieces that should last me a long time.I really want to cut back and only buy what I NEED and no WANTS this year. I want to make the most of what I’ve got first.I’ve read through the previous years so I think I’ve got the challenge rules right.Here’s to less clothes spending in 2022!!
- Pip"Be the type of woman that when you get out of bed in the morning, the devil says 'Oh crap. She's up.'
It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it - that’s what gets results!
2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge 66 coupons - 25.5 spent.
4 - Thermal Socks from L!dl
4 - 1 pair "combinations" (Merino wool thermal top & leggings)
6 - Ukraine Forever Tartan Ruana wrap
8 - 4 x 100g/450m skeins 3-ply dark green Wool Local yarn
1.5 - sports bra
2 - 100g/220m DK Toft yarn5 -
Laura_Elsewhere said:Wish me luck tomorrow - teaching a friend's 10-year-old daughter to crochet over Zoom, from scratch...!I was talking to my friend the other day about ways that she could boost her income - I did think about Zoom crochet classes. (I attend an online yoga class through work). Do you think it would work?2025 Fashion on a ration 0/66 coupons
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OldWomanWhoLivesInAShoe said:Gem-gem said:@CAFCGirl, how awful for you! I am in the process or changing my email account as it has been found on the dark web. I have also had a credit card cloned - I think it was done at a petrol station. It feels horrible. Hugs for you.Mrs O, I am making a Toft Simon the Sheep at the moment. My first ever crochet project. My friend has signed up to their quarterly magazine, which is full of designs - knitting and crochet. I like the beanie and a jumper. I can only but dream. I will get there (or pay my friend to make it fit me!)
Still no spends / clothing bought / no coupons spent.(I still have some chocolate left).Mrs O, please do send me some photos and prices. This is the beanie that I saw in the book.I generally go for muted colours like greys, blacks and blues.Ps. (I do have the pattern for it - if anyone is interested. I only photographed this one pattern - didn't feel right to do anymore - will buy other patterns😁)2025 Fashion on a ration 0/66 coupons
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florianatwobob said:Gem-gem said:Mrs O, I am making a Toft Simon the Sheep at the moment. My first ever crochet project. My friend has signed up to their quarterly magazine, which is full of designs - knitting and crochet. I like the beanie and a jumper. I can only but dream. I will get there (or pay my friend to make it fit me!)
This was my first Toft creation. I think my most recent (a gargoyle) is on last years thread. I also did a pink stegosaurus for a friend’s daughter (her favourite dino and colour).
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I made this sheep a fair few years ago and its been washed and loved by more than one dgc and now I have her back, that's lady Laura in the background.
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It's a toft one, sorry the photo is a bit rubbish but it's my very first try. I've ok only ever done one bit of toy crochet, but it's wasn't as fiddly or as difficult ad it looked, I surprised myself!!£1 a day 2025: £90.00/365 Xmas fund6
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nannygladys said:I made this sheep a fair few years ago and its been washed and loved by more than one dgc and now I have her back, that's lady Laura in the background.I going to make one for me and one for a nephew's second Christmas.2025 Fashion on a ration 0/66 coupons
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I wonder what percentage of toys were homemade like the Toft toys during the war?2025 Fashion on a ration 0/66 coupons
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Gem-gem - I would think loads of toys were hand cobbled to together or made.
I was surprised how easy it was, if I remember correctly they did two sizes this one is the small one. My smallest dgd had it first, but then I knit a teddy out of 'snuggly' yarn for her, that was a real pain to knit, which she preferred so it got passed to dgs and back to me!!!!! And she still drags the teddy off to bed with her now.
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Gem-gem said:I wonder what percentage of toys were homemade like the Toft toys during the war?✒️ Declutter 2025👗 Fashion on the Ration 2025 61/66 coupons (5 coupons silver boots)✒️Declutter 2024 🏅🏅🏅(DSis 🏅🏅)
👗Fashion on the Ration 2024✒️Declutter 2023 ⭐️ ⭐️🏅(and one for DSis 🏅)
👗Fashion on the Ration 2023✒️Declutter 2022 🏅 🏅 ⭐️ ⭐️👗Fashion on the Ration 2022✒️Declutter 2021 ⭐️⭐️⭐️🏅👗Fashion On The Ration 2021 (late joining due to ‘war work’)8
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