2022 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

keepcalmandcraft

Love the hippo and sheep, beautifully made. 

PipneyJane

@Gem_gem - love the hippo.

I haven't made a hot water bottle cover but I'm certain that I've seen patterns for them.  I did a quick search on free patterns in Ravelry and this is what came up.

HTH

Pip

MrsCD

@Gem-gem, here's some free patterns to look through.
https://www.jerasjamboree.co.uk/13-crochet-hot-water-bottle-covers/
I like the owl!

QueenJess

Ooh - @Gem-gem your hippo is famous! https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/team-blog/2022/03/forum-highlights-8-april-2022/?_ga=2.3172276.542084514.1647202441-281698490.1647202441&_gl=1*u2imjy*_ga*MjgxNjk4NDkwLjE2NDcyMDI0NDE.*_ga_X74CWQS9F0*MTY0OTMzMjk4Mi4xMy4xLjE2NDk0NDM5MjEuMA..

Cherryfudge

Not the first time Fashion on the Ration has been named in the weekly letter but I've never seen a hippo make it to the hall of fame! - well done @Gem-gem!

PollyWollyDoodle

Congratulations @Gem-gem! 😆

MrsCD

Fame at last! @Gem-gem 😃😃

Gem-gem

QueenJess said:

Ooh - @Gem-gem your hippo is famous! https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/team-blog/2022/03/forum-highlights-8-april-2022/?_ga=2.3172276.542084514.1647202441-281698490.1647202441&_gl=1*u2imjy*_ga*MjgxNjk4NDkwLjE2NDcyMDI0NDE.*_ga_X74CWQS9F0*MTY0OTMzMjk4Mi4xMy4xLjE2NDk0NDM5MjEuMA..

Thank you for sharing. I am gobsmacked that my mini hippo has made it into the Hall of Fame. 

If anyone wants the pattern private message me. I would recommend the Toft (Kerry Lord) books. 

Thank you for the links for the hot water bottles. I will have a look at my favourite designs and then get my friend/mum to decode them! 

Laura_Elsewhere

Coo, our @Gem-gem is famous indeed! Well done (both the needlework and the fame!)

You will still talk to us common lot, though  

Laura_Elsewhere

Up to my eyebrows here in sewing - Our Nuptials is impending like billy-oh, and a lot of Other Things happening very close in time, so trying to organise wedding, honeymoon, five weeks' working away for 3 days each week, with long train commutes involved, and Easter, oh and did I mention that as well as all the sewing, I'm also doing the cooking/baking for honeymoon in self-catering rural cottage so need to do all of that too  

I think I've used nearly all of the parachute that My Intended's mum acquired and sent us (in modern terms, she sent a very unexpected cheque which we know she can only just afford, hoping it would be used in some way so she feels involved, so we lashed out on a yard of pure silk-satin in gorgeous red - it will be the face-masks for the five of us at the wedding and we made one and posted it to her so she has the same). 
Skirt and top are finished; my cummerbund and M.I.'s tie are both finished, sewn from the same gloriously-rich dupion silk, still some masks to make, and some kind of shrug/cardi/coatee for me to wear over top and under silk shawl as the weather is colder and I think it will look better than a thermal vest under the top