Me Made March

The Home Stretch

Days 24 to 28

Thursday, Day 24. Today was the purple dress and black jacket. I am trying to at least not have an exact combination of clothes this month. Although I don’t want to speak too soon, still a few days to go!

Day 25. It must be Friday as it’s the denim skirt again! This time paired with an H&M shirt.

Saturday, Day 26. I have been wanting to wear my Colette Crepe dress, but have not been anywhere that I felt it was suitable this month (and I don’t feel it is suitable for work). So I wore it to dinner at a friend’s house knowing that I would be way over dressed, but also wanted to show off the dress!!

Sunday, Day 27. In this picture I have just finished the 30km “Around the Bay Road Race” in Hamilton and had done a quick change in order to take my older son out for brunch before dropping him back at res. The sweater is hand knitted mohair and it is the second time I have worn it as part of this challenge. Yes, that is the race medal still around my neck!!

Monday, Day 28. The black skirt again, this time with the white blouse and red cardi (both Jacob) and black tights. You can't really see the necklace, but it is also self made, with turquoise, coral and stirling silver. 

Three more days to go!!

Me Made March

Days 9 to 13

How time flies when you are having fun. It is becoming more of a challenge and it has certainly shown me the gaps in my wardrobe. let's just hope I learn from the gaps and sew accordingly the rest of the year!!

Day 9 was the purple dress again, this time worn with a black cardigan.

Day 10 was my second Pendrell blouse. I don't like the frills on me. When I make another (and I am planning several) it won't be this version. i wore it with black pants and my favourite jacket from H&M

Day 11 was Friday and casual day, so it was the denim skirt again, this time with a white t-shirt and sweater.

Day 12. Saturday, came home from a long run and had no plans for anything other than slouching around the house all day (and doing exciting things like housework!!), so this hand knitted jacket was perfect. I knitted it about 15 years ago from a Kaffe Fasset book of patterns.

And then we had Sunday. Day 13. As mentioned several times, the gap in my wardrobe is casual wear, and not doing anything exciting meant I had no reason to dress up. But it did force me to finish an UFO. An apron from Vogue 8643 (an original 1952 design). Perfect for baking biscotti. I started the apron last year, and then ended up making two for friends, and after that I was sick of sewing aprons!! I do have some more cute material and plan to make another one as well.

Me Made March - The Halfway Point

Day 14.  Monday. I wore the Pendrell blouse with a grey suit, you can just see it under the jacket. I love my Pendrell blouse. I have already pre-ordered the New Sewaholic Pattern, the Crescent Skirt, I am looking forward to sewing that up.

Tuesday, Day 15. The Black and White Skirt. This time paired with black blouse (Jacob) and black jacket. I added a vintage brooch which belonged to one of my Grandmothers. As you will notice, my usual photographer was not around this morning. He had an early morning meeting!

Day 16. Okay, now we are halfway through. Yeah! And as next week will be Spring, I fully intend to wear items I have made for the Spring Palette Challenge. I don’t care that the weather forecast says it’s going to be colder than it has been this week. It will be Spring!! So anyway, day 16 was the beige top. Worn with brown trousers and a cosy brown cardigan.

Day 17 and it was time for my favourite dress, the black and white pinafore dress. Worn with a white blouse and my favourite red cardigan (both Jacob)

Day 18 (Friday). I wore a new item of clothing. Light brown cropped trousers, made for the Spring Palette Challenge. Worn with a black and white striped top (Old Navy) and black cardigan (Joe Fresh).

Me Made March

Days 5 - 8

Stop press! Great excitement! Gertie from Gerties New Blog For better Sewing, featured a picture of my crepe dress on her blog on the weekend.




http://www.blogforbettersewing.com/2011/03/gallery-of-delicious-crepes.html

Anyway, back to MMM. This weekend I discovered a major gap in my wardrobe of handmade clothes. I haven't made casual clothes. So at lunchtime today I nipped up the road to Fabricland and bought two pieces of knit fabric and will make two tops for weekend / casual wear.

So what did I wear this weekend? Well on Saturday I remembered a sweater I knitted a number of years ago. While on holiday in the Eastern Cape of South Africa (KleineMond for anyone who knows the area!), I bought some hand spun angora at a little farm. The earrings are also hand crafted, from beads from one of my Grandmother's necklaces. So quite suitable for a day at the Toronto Golf and Travel show.

Sunday was tough. After my long run, all I was planning to do was laze around the house. Tempting as it was to put on an evening dress and pretend that is how I spend my Sundays, all I could come up with was an apron. I ask you, an apron!! It has a winter theme so very fitting as we had a huge dump of snow on Saturday night.

Monday and today were good. Yesterday I wore a hand sewn top made a number of years ago from an old McCall's pattern 7444. I had made the jacket and skirt too, but they are long gone. I teamed this up with black trousers and jacket.

Today was a black skirt from Simplicity  5259. Worn with a plain white blouse and a grey  sweater.

Me Made March

The Early Days!

So far so good. I have had my clothes out ready the night before so that I know exactly what I am wearing.  That is most unusual for me; I normally open the closet door in the morning and see what takes my fancy! But often if I am running late, it is a matter of what is clean does not require any ironing!!

Day One, the purple dress. This is a fast and easy dress (Butterick B5247). I made it almost entirely with my serger. Very nice to wear. I have been meaning to use the pattern and make a top  as well. As I work in an office, dresses are perfect.

Day two, my jumper dress. Simplicity 2848 (inspired by Project Runway). Love it to bits, I either wear it with a black blouse like I did on day two, or with a white blouse. I like to wear it with black boots. The gemstone necklace is also self -made. I call it my yoga necklace as I got the idea from a yoga web site. The different gemstones have different healing and mood properties and work with your chakras apparently!

Day three, I wore my Sewaholic Pendrell blouse for the first time. I got so many compliments, so that made me very happy! I hauled my pearl necklace out as I wear it so rarely these days and I think it went vey nicely with the polka dots.

Day four and it’s Friday. That means casual in our office.  This denim skirt I made a couple of year ago from a 1990’s 5 hour jeans/ skirt pattern. (Do the 1990s count as vintage yet??! ) The scarf is self-made; I laid various threads onto water-soluble paper, put a layer of the same paper on top and then stitched in a big zigzag motion all over the scarf. Then soaked in water, and a very pretty scarf and so easy.