2019 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

I have plans to make myself dungarees this year using a pair I already own as the pattern
My mind says this should be simple enough - they're not fitted style but still the very idea of even starting scared me to death.

Might invite more able,qualified and knowledgeable mum to help me out and ' make a day of it' LOL

I've been avoiding all shops which means no money or coupons spent LOL

Oooh, lots of new people - hullo! Welcome!

And plenty of people off to a great start - 2018 was my first try at this and I made such a mess of it. I lost count completely, and ended up starting over again in the summer with half-a-year's coupons, and even so I still ran out, and then ended up (oh, the shame, the shame!) buying from spivs on the black market... I'm determined this year NOT to give my money to spivs again!

I was thinking of buying some fabric to make a new dark-neutral skirt, as I do need on, but then in looking for other things I found a box my partner had helpfully packed away, with some forgotten dark-green cotton. It's too thin for an all-purpose skirt, so I thought of the old practice of "underlining" where you back a fabric with another fabric to strengthen and insulate it (used to be done with silk frocks, for example), a bit different from just lining a garment. so then I thought about buying some fabric to do that, but checked my fabric boxes once more, just in case...

Hey presto - my serviceable and muted dark-green cotton skirt for everyday wear will have an inside of white cotton with big polka-dotty spots of yellow, red, green and blue! That should be jolly and cheerful on a windy day!

And... NO COUPONS!

Sayschezza wrote: »

Please may I join you as I desperately need to curb my clothes spending. I have already bought trousers and shoes in the sales this year. My OH is buying the dress I ordered (if it fits) online, for my birthday so I am hoping that's coming off his coupons not mine. Can't think of anything else that been ordered and not sent back. Oh yes I can I have just remembered I bought a coat as well. Wonder if I can pinch more coupons from my OH.

Well... you can pinch all his coupons BUT he then can't have any new clothes or shoes this year, which might be a problem!

**PipneyJane** - would you okay this idea? Your thread, after all!

Since you weren't doing this from Jan 1st, I suppose you could draw a line and start on Feb 1st with 11/12 of the annual coupon count? I did that last year after getting hopelessly lost and muddled and having no idea at all where I was, just drew a line and started again with 6 months to go and 50% of the coupons.

I don't think it's a good idea for anyone to rely on doing it, and certainly I don't think anyone should do it repeatedly! - but you hadn't started when you spent those coupons, so you could go for starting on Feb 1st with sixty and a half coupons, and be firm with yourself from then on?

Polly, yep, you sew double-layers, so the lining becomes a structural element, rather then only being a lining.
I was all set to buy sensible black lining fabric, and then thought "ooh, what if..." and now I shall have a sensible, no-nonsense everyday green skirt - with a gloriously frivolous inside to it!

And you should see the list of sewing projects yet to start, cut but not sewn, half-sewn... Once I finish the pockets and hem on the green stealth-spot skirt, I have red culotte-type trousers to sew, cut out last summer, and a pale pink satin dressing-gown cut out in 2017 form fabric bought specifically for it in 2015!