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2023 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

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  • PipneyJane
    PipneyJane Posts: 4,584 Forumite
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    The colours are muted now the felt has dried. I have yet to sew on a badge pin. The brown 1940’s garter stitch bow or Ascot scarf took just one ounce to knit. I remember my eldest sister using the same pattern at the village primary school, the three of us were in the junior classroom at the same time when I moved up from the infants room.
    The crochet leaf was from WI. 


    There was a similar pattern for this scarf in the 1936 Lux Knitting Book.  I made one for my MIL a few years ago.  Clever design, aren’t they?

    (I just went looking for a photo.  It must have been longer ago than I realised, since it predates my membership of Ravelry.  I joined Ravelry in 2007.)

    I had a close call, this month.  Somehow, a couple of weeks ago, I managed to splash a tomato-based sauce my pale grey cashmere cardigan. It resulted in a handful of drops, each a few millimetres across.  (I didn’t notice them, until I wore the cardigan to a friend’s last Monday and noticed them while washing my hands in her bathroom!)  Over the weekend, I washed the cardigan using W8flower’s Wool Wash and the wool cycle of the washing machine, (along with a few other knitted, woollen garments, I might add).  I think I’ve got all the marks out -   I’m wearing the cardigan now and I can’t see any, in artificial light - but, in case I wasn’t successful, what should I do to get the marks out?

    Thanks,

    - 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 - 30 spent.

    4 - Thermal Socks from L!dl
    4 - 1 pair "combinations" (Merino wool thermal top & leggings)
    6 - Ukraine Forever Tartan Ruana wrap
    7 - Nobody’s Child brand Blue Cotton Denim Midi Dress from M&S
    16 - 4 x 100g/450m skeins 3-ply dark green Wool Local yarn
  • Laura_Elsewhere
    Laura_Elsewhere Posts: 2,704 Forumite
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    edited 21 March 2023 at 7:55PM
    @PipneyJane - another one for some milk?

    @Liverpool_Anne - the link was for the shoes; the linen supplier was Bernie the Bolt but I think lots of the bolts of fabric are not on his website… (Edit to add: in fact, on checking, he has no website! )
    2025 remaining: 37 coupons from 66:
    January (29): winter boots, green trainers, canvas swimming-shoes (15); t-shirt x2 (8); 3m cotton twill (6);
    .
    2025 second-hand acquisitions (no coupons): None thus far
    .
    2025 needlework- *Reverse-couponing*:11 coupons :
    January: teddybear-lined velvet jacket (11) & hat (0); velvet sleep-mask (0);
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