I thought I would summarise some of my thoughts on the Me-Made March challenge…
well, it was a challenge. I made things more complicated for myself (ha, what’s new) by starting with vague thoughts not to repeat any garments, and then ended up following through on that. So, once I had worn something for the month, I kind of shoved it over to the right hand side of my wardrobe, and tried to make new outfits out of things that hadn’t been worn yet that month… I think this worked sometimes better than other times. On some occasions I had a complete outfit worked out in my head and then spontaneously grabbed completely different things instead. Nearly every morning however I approached my wardrobe having no idea what I should wear that day…
Part of the difficulties lay in the weather; and here are some statistics to bore you with; and I’m not having a whinge but just stating the facts here
1. Perth has officially just had the hottest March on record, yes, a record high month since they even started keeping records in the 1880’s. This added quite a degree of difficulty to my clothing options, jeans and even a lot of my dresses, shirts and long-sleeved tops were out of the picture! Well, only a difficulty because of the self-imposed no-repeat thing…
2. We had a completely dry March; this has happened only six times before in our recorded history. In fact, we haven’t had even one raindrop for 60 days, and there is still no rain expected in the foreseeable future! Well, actually to be honest that didn’t affect Me-Made March at all, just thought I’d mention it just because… well, just because.
Soooo, that’s it. It was fun, and that’s the main thing right?
I am so amazed that you had enough self-stitched clothes to get through a whole month! It's not surprising that you wore a lot of sun dresses if it was a particularly hot month. It's cool here a lot of the time and that makes me want to wear pants all the time. I feel much happier in dresses when the weather is warm or hot.
Fun IS the main thing!
I did MMMar '11 without me-made repeats, too (also self-imposed). In retrospect, I realize that I need to slow down and be more thoughtful with the clothes that I make. I whipped through so many projects in the last year and would like to focus more on quality, rather than quantity. And maybe a little balance… LOL
You looked awesome all month, long spate of hot weather be damned! Can't wait to see what you've got cookin' for when the weather cools off. I'd send you our rain if I could!
And thanks for the compliments on my Chanel jacket! I'm SO pleased with how it turned out. 🙂
Yes, no repeats is quite impressive, especially in a weather-extreme month. If I had to do no repeats in a hot month, I think I would have 2 tops to wear.
Very nice! (And I'm glad Zoe is not contemplating another of these for awhile. 🙂 )
Oh yes, it was fun! And what a task you had! I think your sunny pics kept many of us going on (I'm thinking of those of us who're on the other side of the world – in Europe, the temperature was way below 0C at the beginning of March!).
It was great seeing your colorful wardrobe, I especially enjoyed seeing new incarnations of some of your garments. It motivated me to re-think some of my not so fascinating items and perhaps recycle them.
I have really enjoyed following your mmm outfits. Have a great weekend!
He he, I'm remembering being 18 and my mom was 50, and she looked better in my jeans than I did, a consequence of biking upwards of 50 miles on occasion and walking alot. And I was a collegiate cross country runner at the time (though not in the best shape of my life, by any means) … I also had no fashion sense then, neither one of us did, and both you and Cassie have it in droves.
I've enjoyed watching your wardrobe adventure. I identified alot of holes after SSS too, but haven't rectified many.
Looking forward to whatever you are going to show us in April.
We've had some periods with 60+days of no precip in Texas (though not at present, thank goodness – ask me again in July/August!). It DOES make for a great reduction in the # of mosquitos.
It was lovely to have you pop up on my screen on a daily basis, in yet another glorious creation. If nothing else, such an exercise does make you truly look at your wardrobe for all its potential. Thank-you for all the inspiration.
It was so fun seeing all your mmm outfits!
I'm so impressed you went through MMM with no repeats and always looked so stylish. Perth has had a scorcher this year – I guess you'd be really looking forward to pulling out some of your cool weather clothes 🙂
I love checking in with you because you always have such beautiful outfits and you have such interesting locations for your photo shoots…they are never boring 🙂