The photo mini challenge for today, the last day of me-made May is “red”.
min 6C, max 19C, fine and sunny
Details:
Jacket; Burdastyle magazine 08/2010, 113, chocolate brown faux leather, details and my review of this pattern here
Jeans; Burda 7863 modified, purple stretch denim, details here and my review of this pattern here
Top; the loose drape top from drape drape by Hisako Sato, white cotton jersey, details here
Socks, seen below, and also red!; hand knit by me to a 60’s pattern, details here
Boots; Andrea and Joen
In my family’s last day of MMM13, Craig is wearing this shirt, Tim is wearing this hoodie, Cassie is wearing this Tshirt, and Sam is wearing this jacket.
Craig’s shirt; Burda 7767 modified, white linen, details here
Tims hoodie; self-drafted, grey and khaki cotton jersey, details here
Cassie’s Tshirt; self-drafted grey and black striped cotton jersey, details here
Sam’s jacket; Burda7767 modified, navy blue corduroy, details here, and my tutorial for making that welt/patch double pocket is here
So, Me-made May…
Yay! I did it, and it is finished! I apologise for the boringness of my daily outfit posts, I know that a lot of my regular visitors switch off my blog completely during the me-made months; so obviously a lot of people do not like that what-I’m-wearing-today aspect. That’s ok 🙂
I do try to mix my wardrobe up creatively, and and to keep it interesting and keep it real.
I learnt nothing new, but this was my sixth time. Oh I lie, I did learn one thing; that I have more than enough handmade clothes… I repeated only three items this month; namely my ivory curtaining skirt, my calico knitted cardigan, and a plain white Tshirt; of which I have three, so maybe not repeating the exact same one, but still. Hmmm, these are all white-ish items. I cannot escape my love for pale colourless clothing!
I upped the ante by electing to wear exclusively handmade clothing, everything; including lingerie, hosiery and socks, but bearing in mind I have already pledged to do this for the entire of this year anyway, and actually I’ve always pushed myself to the limit in the me-made months. This year I’ve pushed myself way past those limits. I do wonder if it is time for me to let MMM go now.
I’ve always really liked the community of me-made May, and thought it was a brilliant idea of Zoe’s for getting us all together, wearing our handmade stuff and supporting each other.. Which is why I kept coming back, like a moth to the flame 🙂 This year I felt the “community” feel had diminished a bit; probably because the group was just so BIG this year, over 400 participants! While this is absolutely terrific, that so many people are sewing for themselves and proudly wearing their own creations and I absolutely love that and believe that side of it is just fantastic! however… the (tiny and selfish) downside for me is that the we-all-know-each-other aspect was lost just a little bit. I noticed that the group broke up into cliques. I did not get to know a lot of the new participants this year; I admired and commented on a lot of creations, and received far less comments back. I found it impossible to look at every picture, every day, so ended up just sticking to the small group of lovely ladies who were replying to my comments. And look, that is fine. Everyone does what they can, as much or as little as they want to, and that has always been the way the group rolls. But I did feel a little sad that it was a lot less personal that it has been in the past. A side effect of the group getting so big? I don’t know.
Taking the photos is always by far the most challenging part for me, and that didn’t change. I made a personal rule to limit my photo sessions to about one, or up to two minutes tops. Some days I had trouble getting the settings on my camera right for certain lighting conditions, and had to go over time; but having that rule took some pressure off.
I also documented here on my blog what in the me-made category my family was wearing, and on most days someone other than me was wearing something I had made. This made me very happy, and was my favourite part really 🙂
So that is it!
All my daily outfits for this month are in my MMM13 Flickr set here
