MMJ Days 8 - 10

Day 8 (Wednesday). Work and then an evening dinner with out of town colleagues. Thank goodness for my Pendrell blouse. Second wearing of the Pendrell for MMJ! This week I wore it with grey pants (part of a suit).

Day 9 (Thursday). Work again!! Today I wore my self drafted A-line skirt that I made as part of the Collette Spring Palette Challenge. I wore it with a knitted top from H&M and a necklace I made from beads I bought in South Africa when I was there on holiday 2 years ago.For the necklace, I took 5 pieces of thin leather cord and then threaded the beads on and made a knot either side of each bead to hold them in place. I then glued the ends of the cords together and put a clasp on.

Day 10 (Friday). I was in such a hurry to get to work today and after work had a farewell function for a colleague moving to another department. All in all I totally forgot to take a picture!! What did I wear? As it is casual day in the office on a Friday I wore my self stitched denim skirt along with a grey short sleeved cowl neck seater from H&M.

MMJ Days 6 and 7

Monday (day 6). Normal day at work. I wore a new skirt and top outfit that I had sewed as part of the Colette  Patterns blog Spring Palette Challenge. Vogue Easy Options 2218. Lovely pattern has it has several different top and skirt options. The fabric was a beige check from Fabricland. Necklace, a recent Birthday gift from a  friend. In the office I slipped a little black cardigan on.

Tuesday (day 7). Work and then a dinner out with colleagues. I wore my Crescent skirt. very happy with it and this is the first wear of it. Good fit and feels nice on. Going to start the second one this weekend. I love the pockets!

With a little cardigan

Without the cardigan

MMJ Days 3 - 5

Usual photographer at work already!

Day 3

Friday, so casual day at work. I wore my jeans for the first time, paired with a  black and white striped shirt  from H&M and little black sandals (origin forgotten!).

The jeans felt good on, very comfortable. Excuse the over flowing laundry basket in the background of the photo, laundry in the process of being renovated so everything is in the hall!

The jeans (again!!)

Crochet shopping bag

Day 4

Me made necklace

Running around doing errands on Saturday and the only me made item I had was my crocheted shopping bag. But in the evening we did go out to dinner with friends and I wore my jeans again, this time with a sleeveless top (origin forgotten), really cute beaded shoes from Woolworths in South Africa purchased during a visit to Cape Town about 6 years ago and a self made chunky necklace.

Day 5

Before the run!

After the run!

Started the day with a run, so tried out my new running top that I made yesterday. I couldn’t find nice sporty type material at Fabricland, so I bought an extra large men’s golf shirt from Value Village, it was made of the nice dri fit type material. After a good wash, I cut out a vest top using an old pattern from a magazine series I collected in the late 80s “Successful Sewing”.

Close up of the flower!

I then made a cute fabric flower from a tutorial on the Collete patterns blog and stitched it to the neckline with a few pearl beads. Adds a bit of interest to an otherwise very plain top. Had a good run so the top is a keeper!!

The yoga mat bag!

Then headed off to a hot yoga class (I was home alone for the morning, the males in the house either playing golf or camping!). I haven’t quite finished the bra top that I am attempting, but I did have my self stitched yoga mat bag!

Me Made June (MMJ)

And we are off!

Day one was a usual day at work. I ended up wearing my favourite Pendrell blouse with black pants. Boring way to start this challenge, as I wore the blouse many times for MMM.

Today I wore a dress that I love. Burda 7827. It was a pleasure to sew this, it is cotton with a little bit of lycra in. The first time I wore this to work (2 years ago), one of the young fashionistas in the office was like "OMG, why didn't I know Coach were doing dresses!" I took that as a great compliment!

After work I played golf in my usual Thursdays ladies league. As part of the challenge I decided to also wear at least one self stitched for my sports as well (running, yoga and golf), not sure how successful I'm going to be in this regard. The cropped pants are Simplicity, I added large pockets in the side seams for golf balls and tees!