The Conclusion of Me Made May 2015

Day 30: Peonies from the Princeton Farmers Market and a lined, cotton eyelet NL 6843 skirt.

• Day 26:  The dress I wear when I need to look nice
• Most days:  I used my B6072 backpack.

• Love that NL 6922 dress--need to make more. 
• Another rusty object
• Bonus Day 26 at the gym, tank.

• Day 29: Love this top and skirt combo; never wore them together before but love!
• Day 31:  I should wear that skirt more often.

Conclusions

• It was a fun month with no me-made repeats. 
• I made new friends through Twitter.  
• @SewSimplicity rocks on twitter--they love to favorite and retweet, and I was even their #SimplicityTweetoftheDay a few times!  I love the enthusiasm and interaction with pattern companies.
• I enjoyed finding new sculptures on campus for backdrops.
• I rediscovered some outfits, found some new combinations and want to sew up some of the dresses again.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to all my photographers the entire month:  Ellen, Sara, Diane, Paula, Tomasa, and especially to The Other Ellen and Gina who took the majority of photos for the month!  Gold stars to you all!

Be well!

The middle of Me-Made-May 2015 #mmmay15

Now that we're approaching the end of May, I figured I better get my act together and post my pix for days 13-25 of Me-Made-May 2015 before they pile up too much.

New Look dresses....

• I don't think that brown dress is so pointy in real life--it was sooooo windy that day....that was the best shot of the bunch and my photographer that day had to lend me her sunglasses to use as a headband to control the poof...
• I love the purple with the scarf collar.
• The gray dress with the points is not a favorite of mine--I don't like the skirt.  Am tempted to remove the skirt and make the front just straight without pleating.

Simplicity / New Look / And a PR pattern

• Definitely want to make more of those pants and maybe the top again too
• Love that skirt--you can't see the crosshatch pattern but I just love it
• Love the turquoise New Look dress--I made it in three colors that summer--will wear one of the other colors again soon.

Three pix for one outfit

• It was really cold suddenly last Thursday.  Perfect day to wear my quilted panel dress and my corduroy jacket.  That quilted dress is like wearing armor.

Vogue and McCalls dresses  (and my fabric stash in the middle) + Jalie shrugs

• You would laugh if you could see the rest of that sculpture
• There's most of my fabric stash!
• Love that teal dress and shrug
• I've worn that gray shrug almost every day since I've made it.  or, at least it feels that way.

Gym bonuses

• I really love the day 18 top and skirt combo.  I really want to make a dress out of that stretch lace.
• Day 20 tank:  the underlayer needs to be stretchier so that it is smoother
• Definitely want to make more of each skort, though I would put the dark color on the sides next time instead of the lighter color.

How's it going with your Me-Made-May?  Are you suffering from photo fatigue yet?  Just 6 more days to go (including today!)

Be well!

Unintentionally Me-Made-May-ing, Days 1-12

My most editorial photo ever, at the Hedgehog and the Fox outdoor sculpture at Princeton.

I've known about Me-May-Made for a few years now, but have never taken part for various reasons (lack of self-made clothing to carry me through an entire month, lack of time/interest, etc).     I've always felt that May would be the month to do the challenge because I make mainly warmer-weather clothing, as opposed to September when the descent into cold weather starts in NJ.

On May 1 this year, I realized that I happened to be wearing something I made and I happened to be lunching with someone who wouldn't mind taking my picture, and that I happened to have a minute to tweet it and hashtag it with #mmmay15.

Then it kind of went from there.

So here are 8 pictures from Days 1-12.

There were skirts from the same pattern:

I love my New Look 6843 skirts.  I'm also wearing the Jalie 3246 shrug on day 1.

And also dresses from many patterns:

And this dress with the scalloped collar and self covered buttons that was the #SimplicityTweetoftheDay


I have still not vowed anything regarding Me-May-Made 2015.  I've been wearing at least something Me-Made on the weekends, but not taking pictures.   The documentation process has been weekdays thus far.

Impressions:

• This made me dig deep into my closet and re-examine why I'm not wearing certain dresses
• I love that there is a garment from each year spanning 2010-2015 as well as an outlier from 2007.
• I enjoy looking at the #mmmay15 tweets on Twitter.  I'm still not on Instagram but it appears that's the place to be, as most tweets about #mmmay15 are from Instagram.
• It's really hard to take a decent photo in bright sunlight without shadows.
• Flickr does not provide any mechanism for producing photo collages which is disappointing but I have added that suggestion to their suggestion page.
• I've had 5 different photographers (including myself) for these 8 photos and it is always interesting to hear the others opinions!
• The folks @sewsimplicity are enthusiastic re-tweeters.  I've gotten new Twitter followers because of that. Thanks!  Love that enthusiasm!

In other news I had to take a day off  today.  It is gloriously, delightfully beautiful from my current location, writing this in my backyard.  Yay Spring!  

So are you doing #mmmay15? 

Be well!