2022 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

florianatwobob

@Laura_Elsewhere hope you’re feeling more the thing soon

@PipneyJane, loving the song. I almost miss the days of ‘competitive hand washing’. 

Picked up a pair of n*xt summer trousers today in @geUK for a bargain £4.99. I will need to turn the legs up (the perils of being a low bottom) but I’m very happy with them. 

skogar

Hi Laura- best wishes for a speedy recovery. I know quite a few people who have had it in the last few weeks and most have reported it being like very bad flu and it has really taken it out of them. One girl who works in the NHS had very mild symptoms when she had it last year but was in bed for 3 days with it this time around, whether it's due to a different variant, higher exposure or what I've no idea. Take it very easy though, I only had very mild symptoms when I had it (very early on) but the after effects seemed to take a lot more getting over (tiredness and dizzyness) and I know quite a lo people who say it has taken them a few weeks to get over it properly.

Cherryfudge

I now have 125g beautiful 2 ply wool in a shade called 'peony', a deep cherry red. No coupons as it was from a charity shop. She only charged me 75p too, because one of the balls has been hand wound and she thought it looked smaller. By the weight of it, though, there's more than one ball in there and it's been unwound in order to double it.

The brand is Falcon Botany which I think is no longer made.

This called my name after I'd nobly resisted a bag of beautiful part-balls of blue wool at the the car boot sale this morning. I shouldn't be let out unsupervised.

Incidentally DH got me a second ball of the blue craft yarn during the week and at present it looks as though I'm keeping it (no idea where the receipt is) though the project didn't quite use the first ball up. So half a coupon for blue craft yarn.

So my stash continues to expand but the covid isolation project is almost complete - just Tom Kitten's tail to sew up and stuff! The pattern is in this month's issue of a knitting magazine and took me about a week, including a lot of time off.

nannygladys

Pip- it's not just mask wearing either, where are the antibac wipes and hand wash disappearing to? I still take my own to wipe trolleys down etc. And it's funny but I still wash my hands as soon as I get back in the house I think it's the best habit I've picked up for a long time!! Oh and love the song 

Laura - I hope you will take it very easy as it seems to affect people in the 'getting very tired easily' department.

Liverpool_Anne

@PipneyJane, I have noticed the vast majority not wearing masks at the match. I travel on the bus and always wear a mask but often I am the only one and inside the ground I think it's less than 1% who wear them on the concourse, often the only other people I see are the people working on the refreshment stands. It was worse when I was down at Wembley last weekend. I think the only other person I saw with a mask the whole time was my cousin who had travelled down with me. I did drive down and we stayed in a hotel near Elstree travelling to Wembley by bus and train. I must say though at Anfield there still are lots of hand sanitizers still in place and topped up though I saw none at Wembley. I am still wearing masks in shops etc and my OH is still wearing them and insisting pupils wear them for lessons. I am also still doing the full hand wash thing as well. Unfortunately it didn't stop me getting this cold though and I can quite believe there are lots of cold and flu viruses out there waiting to get us. I did study viruses as part of my degree and basically they are sneaky little so and sos and unless you can live in a negative pressure suit they will get you at some point, all we can do is try to reduce the risks by taking the measures you have mentioned and hoping if we do catch something our immune system is strong enough to kick in and fight it off. I think this may well be the origin of the saying "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger"
@Laura_Elsewhere, rest, rest and more rest. Everyone I know who has had it has said the same thing, one friend said she didn't feel too bad while she was isolating but felt absolutely exhausted for about 6 weeks after and took about 3 months to get back to normal so please take care of yourself and as Pip says get medical help if you need it.
Take care everyone

Nonnadiluca

Coupon spend to declare: pair of trainers. DD had ordered them  but they were slightly too big for her so she asked me if I wanted to try them before she sent them back as they were a really good bargain.  Perfect on me! I could maybe argue that they were second hand but that's not the spirit of the challenge so 5 coupons spent and I didn't even have to go to the shops 😊. 
I sorted through my wardrobe the other day and I'd like some more padded coat hangers. The ones I have were all bought at charity shops and I really don't want to be spending on something that's not really necessary, so I thought I'd ask if anyone has ever made them.
Hope you continue to feel better Laura.

Liverpool_Anne

@Nonnadiluca, I have made one, when I was in primary school but I have no memory of how I did it or what I used to stuff it. I still have it and use it though Looking at it I can see it was basically a layer of outer material with a layer of some sort of padding material wrapped around the hangers along its length and handstitched along the top. I imagine there will be instructions somewhere on the tube of u and I imagine it must be quite easy if my old teacher thought it was suitable for a class of 30 10 year olds to do. Mind you looking at some of the other things she had us make that I still have she obviously liked a challenge
Take care everyone

Nonnadiluca

Thanks@Liverpool_Anne, I'll have a search online, as you say, it can't be that hard and no one except me will see them anyway! I've got loads of scraps of fabric and it will be a good way to use them up.

Laura_Elsewhere

@Nonnadiluca, I've not made them but I have a couple my Gran made and so far as I can see from the outside, they are quite simply.

You basically want to cut a long narrow piece with a hole in the middle; stick the hook through the hole, and then fold the fabric down over the hanger and sew along the underside, tucking in the ends neatly. Wrap ribbon round the hook if you like. 
I think Gran used a few layers - you could use wadding and I'm sure all the online ones tell you to use wadding but I suspect this is where you really can use old knickers and so on! Layer them up making sure it's a nice flat surface for the pretty fabric to go on, tack the layers in place and treat it as one. 

I think for most hangers the shape would be a rectangle, but it might be worth experimenting with newspaper to check... 

(I'm still doing ok - very few symptoms today but still very tired. Went out in sunshine for walk this morning again, did 1,500 steps, so literally just 3-4 minutes one way and then back again, about a quarter or less of our usual 1.3-mile loop, and only the level bit, no hills! Back to bed and staying here, only getting up to make myself a big salad tonight...)

Nonnadiluca

Thanks Laura, I'm going to have a rummage through my fabric scraps this afternoon and give it a go. Glad you were able to get a vitamin D top up. How's the husband?