2025 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

Cherryfudge

Great selection @kiwisavings! Those socks are very sweet and look like a perfect stash-buster.

alicef

Thank you for the youtube suggestions @kiwisavings , I have book marked them!  

Knitting currently a Bestway pattern using up a charity shop wool purchase from eons ago, (wool band labelled 'Holmfirth Wools Special Offer'); colourwork using oddments from J&S/other Shetland 4 ply stash.

Cherryfudge

I love those colours, @alicef. 

Laura_Elsewhere

We spent today sorting through boxes (…again…) and oh ye gods, I have so much fabric and yarn and clothes awaiting mending or altering or being finished off…

it’s awful….

Cherryfudge

I was thinking very much the same, Laura - about my house not yours, obviously. However, I think I would rather have plenty of 'pending' projects than nothing to look forward to, wouldn't you?

You've already got 11 reverse coupons, so perhaps you could add a few more over the next few months.

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

We spent today sorting through boxes (…again…) and oh ye gods, I have so much fabric and yarn and clothes awaiting mending or altering or being finished off…

it’s awful….

You and me, both, @Laura_Elsewhere.  Big hugs.

Because my desk is now positioned in the middle of the spare room where it's all stored, I am very conscious of the amount of money I have tied up in yarn and fabric.  I really should get on and make the Harris Tweed skirt and trousers to go with my blazer, the fabric for which I purchased last year.  

On the plus side, having shrunk a dress size or two when I was ill, I'm now fitting into suits that I optimistically kept from a decade or so ago, so at least I have some outfits I can wear to work.  Ditto jeans and shorts.  However, I will need to have a major altering session at some point to take in the larger skirts and trousers, probably over Christmas since I have 2 whole weeks booked off then.

- Pip

Wraithlady

PipneyJane said:

Because my desk is now positioned in the middle of the spare room where it's all stored, I am very conscious of the amount of money I have tied up in yarn and fabric.  I really should get on and make the Harris Tweed skirt and trousers to go with my blazer, the fabric for which I purchased last year.  

- Pip

Which reminds me, I have some Manx tweed somewhere to make a jacket out of (will probably have to practice on something less valuable first!)

Laura_Elsewhere

@Cherryfudge I think that’s got to happen!!

Like Pip and Wraithlady, I have a tweed project- a 3/4-circle calf-length skirt I started a couple of years ago to wear for teaching in my autumn half-a-term of multiple courses… which has all now come to an end, so no more teaching clothes needed- so I can make it for general wear and not worry about keeping it pristine!  
three years ago? And the crimson cotton culottes are now five years part-sewn, and I believe the shell-pink satin dressing-gown was cut out seven years ago… sigh…

PipneyJane

kiwisavings said:

Hello everyone,

here's a few Youtube channels that might be of interest:


Real Vintage Dolls House
 - clothing, food and 1940s style house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENO2rYroPIs


Retro Claude
 - follows 1940's clothes rationing, knitting to reduce wool stash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FKAKhszamA



Utility Jude - mostly about food rationing, has a 1940s style house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSvcaRCYcwY



Does anyone watch any other channels that are about rationing?

@kiwisavings thank your for the rabbit hole that I’ve just fallen down on YouTube.  I did not realise that there were so many programs about living in the 1940’s.  I think I’ve lost a couple of hours, just browsing.

Today is the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.  Was anyone else touched by the King’s message?  I can’t help think of my mum’s older brother, who was a POW in one of the Japanese camps.  I don’t think I ever knew for certain the details of where/which one,  He died when I was 7 from the after effects of his war wounds (according to my mum).  That was nearly 30 years after he was liberated.  I never met him.  He lived 750-ish miles away and we were on our way to visit, when he passed away.

- Pip

alicef

I also have an extensive fabric stash that I have managed to ignore for now as it is all packed up in boxes and stuffed under the stairs.

@PipneyJane - I'm catching up with the beeb commentary now.