2024 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

Cherryfudge

I love it, @Nelliegrace, and if you get as many uses out of it as you did with your previous one, it will be a fraction of a penny per wear. It's also got the potential to wear with a classy brooch or a bright pashmina, with something sombre should the occasion require it or open and casual. Oh, and how about a great big colourful turtleneck sweater underneath? I think you're right to buy bigger with a  winter coat, chunky jumpers or multiple layers don't work with a narrow fit.

dND

PipneyJane said:

@Laura_Elsewhere, do you think applying milk would be the best way to get rid of commercial curry stains from a pale blue t-shirt?  I’ve managed to ruin yet another one, despite soaking it in oxy-bleach before washing.  (That’s two so far.). I must have splashed myself while stirring one of those “heat in the oven” takeaways, on Wednesday night.  Only saw it yesterday, so soaked it overnight before washing.

- Pip

Many years ago I had to get curry (turmeric) stain out of a 6-week old wool cream carpet. 😱 Thankfully it was my ex who dropped the curry and not me as I would never of heard the end of it.

I soaked the stain with glycerine and left it overnight then washed and blotted the carpet and left it to dry. It was probably 3 or more weeks of repeating this process but eventually you could no longer see the stain.
Funnily enough I was never thanked for doing it - it was just never mentioned again🤔

I think the glycerine softens the stain but I've never tried it on clothing.  Good luck.  The only other thing I can suggest is dying it yellow. 🤣

Laura_Elsewhere

PipneyJane said:

@Laura_Elsewhere, do you think applying milk would be the best way to get rid of commercial curry stains from a pale blue t-shirt?  I’ve managed to ruin yet another one, despite soaking it in oxy-bleach before washing.  (That’s two so far.). I must have splashed myself while stirring one of those “heat in the oven” takeaways, on Wednesday night.  Only saw it yesterday, so soaked it overnight before washing.

- Pip

I would try the milk but I suspect whatever you do, it will take multiple goes before it goes, iyswim! Try not to let it dry out, avoid heat whether wet or dry, just keep on soaking it and cool-washing it... 
I wouldn't try putting it out in the sun yet, as that could bake the stain in... once it's only a shadow, you could try putting it out for a few days...

PipneyJane

Sadly @dND it’s a pale blue t-shirt, not white.  @Laura_Elsewhere, I’m trying soaking the stained area with milk.  Fingers crossed.

@Nelliegrace that coat is quite a find.  I hope it gives you many warm years of service.

- Pip

Sarahspangles

PipneyJane said:

Sadly @dND it’s a pale blue t-shirt, not white.  @Laura_Elsewhere, I’m trying soaking the stained area with milk.  Fingers crossed.

@Nelliegrace that coat is quite a find.  I hope it gives you many warm years of service.

- Pip

I hope you get the stain out. When the children were smaller I had a full collection of those Stain Devil products but I seem to remember (from reading the labels) that the one for sauces was only the sort of enzymes used in biological washing powder, so a paste of that was as good/bad (depending on whether it worked).

maryb

A no coupon spend - another Lands End shirt on Vinted.  Because their sizing is US you have to search under both UK and US size because people don’t know which one to list under.  She wanted £16 for it which is about twice the going rate so no wonder it was listed four months ag.  I offered £10 which I thought was generous and sure enough she bit my hand off.  It’s navy blue cotton with white polka dots and I’m thinking of shortening the sleeves to wear as a summer shirt with white or navy skirt.  I thought it would have a 1942 vibe

Sarahspangles

Do feel you can pretend to listen to this, while brewing up, thinking about something else and making sympathetic noises at intervals! I won’t mind if you do a ‘Pardon, dear’ when you realise there’s a knitting question at the end!

I haven’t been around much, as I had Covid in early June, felt like I was on the mend after a couple of weeks, but then got a chest infection. As I work from home, I could work until I began to flag and then rest. Eventually a couple of other Ministry workers made me go get some antibiotics and I’m now getting back into action.

While resting, I’ve been knitting a yoke sweater, the kind done top-down with a stranded colourwork design in the yoke. Except I’ve had to frog it three times! The first time, when I folded the neckband, I misaligned it. When I unravelled, the ribbing had taken on a permanent slant, so I made a fresh start. The next time, my fingers suddenly remembered how to knit with two colours a couple of inches into the band, and my tension changed completely. That time I’d got far enough to check the fit, and decided I’d like more neck shaping, so back the yarn went to the ball. The third time, I used a different main colour, but decided it would be less wearable…by this point the yarn needed a light wash to lose its kinks.

This attempt is better. Though I’m hoping that blocking will make increases less obvious. They’re all LLI or RLI so there’s no hole, but you can see there is a ‘dart’.

The question will make you laugh! How do you hold your yarn? I watched a couple of videos to check I was catching floats efficiently and envied how easily that knitter was dropping and picking up her yarn on her working forefingers after stopping to explain things. Eventually I realised she makes a full loop round her little fingers then inserts a forefinger to lift the working yarn at the needle point. I’ve always wrapped all the way round my middle finger, then done a complicated manoeuvre to loop round my little finger too. Now I’m conscious of it, I’ve realising how much time I spend fixing my yarn hold.

PipneyJane

That’s a really good question @Sarahspangles and difficult to describe, so I hope the picture below will answer it:



That’s how I tension my yarn.  Also, note that I tuck my right thumb under the needle, which means it is always supported when creating a stitch, thus removing the possibility of the needle falling out of your stitches at the start of a row.  It’s also more efficient, since you’re not groping around to pick up the needle, and it means I can knit without looking.   This hold is sometimes described as “Australian style”, but I’ve seen Alice Starmore use it.  (I did a class with her, years ago.  She’s a Scottish knitwear designer.)

It’s a while since I’ve done colourwork but, when I did, I used my index finger to carry one yarn, as above, and my second finger to carry the other.  In the class I mentioned earlier, Alice taught me to hold one colour in my right hand and one in my left. I tensioned them both in the same way.

HTH

- Pip




ETA:  I’m glad you’re feeling better now.  

Sarahspangles

PipneyJane said:

That’s a really good question @Sarahspangles and difficult to describe, so I hope the picture below will answer it:



That’s how I tension my yarn.  Also, note that I tuck my right thumb under the needle, which means it is always supported when creating a stitch, thus removing the possibility of the needle falling out of your stitches at the start of a row.  It’s also more efficient, since you’re not groping around to pick up the needle, and it means I can knit without looking.   This hold is sometimes described as “Australian style”, but I’ve seen Alice Starmore use it.  (I did a class with her, years ago.  She’s a Scottish knitwear designer.)

It’s a while since I’ve done colourwork but, when I did, I used my index finger to carry one yarn, as above, and my second finger to carry the other.  In the class I mentioned earlier, Alice taught me to hold one colour in my right hand and one in my left. I tensioned them both in the same way.

HTH

- Pip




ETA:  I’m glad you’re feeling better now.  

That’s brilliant, thank you! It’s surprisingly difficult to find illustrations online of how people hold their yarn. It’s not visible when the shot is from the front of the stitch being made.

MrsCD

Phew, just caught up after a week away in Keswick. 
Pleased MIL is home, @PipneyJane. Hope your treatment goes well and you feel well enough to do something.

I was a bit sneezy in the car on the way home, put it down to hayfever, then started with a runny nose.....
After a rotten night blowing my nose what felt like every few minutes, and my face hurting from a neuralgia type of pain, I did a covid test. Welcome home! No doubt about it! So, family won't come for dinner because they have commitments this week and don't want to catch the lurgy. I don't blame them. DD had it a while ago so she's probably got a bit immunity, but other DD is immunocompromised, and I really don't want her to catch it!
Cottage pie leftovers tomorrow then.