2024 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

PipneyJane

Gem-gem said:

PipneyJane said:

MrsCD said:

Just a shout out to remind everyone that Saturday is National Knitting in Public Day! I'm going out for a cuppa with my friend in the morning, and taking some knitting!

Thanks for the reminder @MrsCD.  I am going to the rugby union grand final tomorrow at Twickenham, so will definitely be knitting in public.  (My sister and brother-in-law are over from Oz.  It’s a treat for him to go to Twickenham for a game.  We were at The Oval tonight for a T20.  Too cold to knit!)

- Pip

Hi Pip, whilst you were at the oval on the 7th, I was at Canterbury. DH and I watched Kent beat Somerset by four balls, 4 wickets 😀👏

Sadly, Surrey lost against Sussex by 36 runs, with Oli Pope not out on 99.  He was >>this close<<  @Gem-gem

Guess who forgot to bring a coat on her trip away with her DS and BIL?  Me.   In my defence, DH distracted me with the house keys, as I was locking up, thus interrupting my train of thought, so I left my anorak hanging in its usual place in the porch.  After going through most of the charity shops in Whitstable yesterday, I found one in the Demelza Hospice charity shop in Rochester this afternoon.  £15 spent on a dark navy, hooded and belted, “Snowdonia” branded anorak.  It’s from one of the catalogues - the one with Williams in its name - but, weirdly, the button flap and press studs are the wrong way around for a woman.   Also, the sizing appears a bit off; it says it’s a UK size 20, but I reckon it was cut to fit a regular size 16.  Fortunately, this is not an issue for me, but I’d be very disheartened if I were a shopper from that catalogue and thought I’d put on weight because my “size” was too tight..

No coupons spent, since the coat was second hand.

- Pip

Sarahspangles

PipneyJane said:

@Sarahspangles those gloves look lovely.  When you finish them, please let us know the amounts of yarn that you actually used.  (Since a noticible proportion of my stash consists of the leftovers from knitting socks, I’m tempted to try to use them up that way.)

For a medium, they took 55g of 4 ply, 14wpi, on 3mm needles.  40g in the main colour and 15g in the highlight. You’d probably use less as I added an inch length to the wrist, and I’m quite loose with my floats. Particularly in the transition between dpns, which I need to work on.

Do you get those sorts of quantities left over from socks?

I’m considering a hat and cowl using this pattern for borders, and fair isle style patterns in the same colour on a lighter background. I borrowed a book on fair isle which means I finally understand yarn dominance.

Laura_Elsewhere

PipneyJane said:

Sadly, Surrey lost against Sussex by 36 runs, with Oli Pope not out on 99.  He was >>this close<<  @Gem-gem

Pip, one of my great treasures is the paper wrapper from a large bar of Dairy Milk (back in the olden days of paper wrappers over purple foil): on the inside, blank white, side my Dad sketched out all the positions in cricket to teach me about them  
I have no idea quite why, but that piece of paper just somehow really sums up the best of my Dad for me He will laugh like a drain if I remember to tell him I've told you about it... 

PipneyJane

Sarahspangles said:

PipneyJane said:

@Sarahspangles those gloves look lovely.  When you finish them, please let us know the amounts of yarn that you actually used.  (Since a noticible proportion of my stash consists of the leftovers from knitting socks, I’m tempted to try to use them up that way.)

For a medium, they took 55g of 4 ply, 14wpi, on 3mm needles.  40g in the main colour and 15g in the highlight. You’d probably use less as I added an inch length to the wrist, and I’m quite loose with my floats. Particularly in the transition between dpns, which I need to work on.

Do you get those sorts of quantities left over from socks?

I’m considering a hat and cowl using this pattern for borders, and fair isle style patterns in the same colour on a lighter background. I borrowed a book on fair isle which means I finally understand yarn dominance.

Thanks for the details @Sarahspangles.  If the socks were for me, I’d have approximately 36g of yarn left;  for DH, probably less than 20g.  (I have only ever weighed one skein of leftovers from a pair of socks for him and that was 13g.)

Laura_Elsewhere said:

PipneyJane said:

Sadly, Surrey lost against Sussex by 36 runs, with Oli Pope not out on 99.  He was >>this close<<  @Gem-gem

Pip, one of my great treasures is the paper wrapper from a large bar of Dairy Milk (back in the olden days of paper wrappers over purple foil): on the inside, blank white, side my Dad sketched out all the positions in cricket to teach me about them  
I have no idea quite why, but that piece of paper just somehow really sums up the best of my Dad for me He will laugh like a drain if I remember to tell him I've told you about it... 

I love that story, @Laura_Elsewhere.  When you tell him, please mention to him that I was told multiple stories about Sir Donald Bradman when I was small, not by my dad, but by my two cricket mad school teachers. If it was a sunny afternoon, both Mr Daniels and Mr Reid thought nothing better than to take their classes out to play cricket for the afternoon.  (Mr Daniels taught me in 3rd grade; Mr Reid in 5th.)

- Pip

diminua

Guess who went round the shops looking for a belt and bought a blouse? Dark turquoise, three quarter length sleeves (longer on me but not needing to be rolled up) and another 5 coupons. 

PipneyJane

diminua said:

Guess who went round the shops looking for a belt and bought a blouse? Dark turquoise, three quarter length sleeves (longer on me but not needing to be rolled up) and another 5 coupons. 

Did you manage to buy the belt, too, @diminua?  That blouse sounds lovely.

I forgot to mention that I bought a scarf in one of the Whitstable charity shops for £3.50, since the back of my neck was getting very cold.  It’s a cotton-rayon blend.  No idea what brand.

- Pip

Laura_Elsewhere

@diminua, easy mistake to make... I mean.. belt... blouse... same letter at the beginning an' everything...  

Laura_Elsewhere

I have spent coupons buying myself a new summer dress. Admittedly, I shan't be wearing it much at present unless I add layers! 

But it's a good linen-viscose blend, and it has pockets I shall machine a quick wide tuck in the skirt to shorten it a bit for everyday practicality- ankle-length is not too handy, so just below the knee it will be! 

"Frock, gown or dress of other [i.e. not wool] fabric - 7 coupons" and I *think that is my first coupons used this year...!

https://tuclothing.sainsburys.co.uk/product/tuc143938119

Laura_Elsewhere

Oooh, just went to update my signature notes and it's now a max of 500 characters/spaces, so I had to remove my notes of previous years... I've kept a note of them though! It's useful to see how my buying has changed... 

PipneyJane

That dress will be lovely on you, @Laura_Elsewhere.  Also, congratulations for getting to June before you spent any coupons.  Well done!

- Pip  (Is it just me or was anyone else distracted by the amount of filler in and around the model’s lips?  I really wish that girls would realise that they are exacerbating the very thing - facial lines - that they are trying to hide by using filler.)