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ivory, with swirly legs

09/05/2013 6:29 am \ 18 Comments \ Carolyn

Maybe because I have no imagination, or maybe because it is about this time in the challenge that I start to get a bit restless with the whole thing… I randomly decided to wear basically the same outfit and stand in the same spot as yesterday. Well, it is definitely the same spot and it is, er, the same outfit but completely different, of course. OK, I do realise that makes no sense whatsoever. And is kinda lame anyway.
Moving on…
Yay! for the photo mini-challenge tomorrow, although “sewing/knitting/creative space” doesn’t seem to lend itself much to creative interpretation but seems pretty cut and dried. I’m wondering, how is everyone’s photos not going to look more or less identical? I’m gonna put my thinking cap on…
Last night I spent a very enjoyable few hours wining and dining and chatting about Spotlight, bras, phone apps and Brad Pitt; amongst a whole bunch of other stuff, with velosewer, jennleeC and Penny hooper. Great fun 🙂 Um, Brad Pitt? Seriously, I have no idea where that came from….!

min 13C, max 21C, sunny, some clouds and windy

Details:
Top; design from Pattern Magic, ivory double knit, details here
Skirt; Vogue 1247 modified, ivory curtaining remnant with satin waistband and lining, details here and my review of this pattern here
Leggings; self-drafted, of printed stretchy stuff, details here and made using my tutorial for making your own custom-fit leggings here
Sandals; c/o Misano

Now for my family’s MMM13 participation report: today Sam wore this shirt, and Craig wore this business shirt, and later on this hoodie.
Craig’s business shirt; Burda 7767, details here
Sam’s shirt; Burda 7767 modified. details here
Craig’s hoodie; self-drafted, details here, and my tutorial on the hoodie here

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charcoal, with red legs

08/05/2013 5:25 am \ 18 Comments \ Carolyn

Whoarr! It’s such a wild and stormy day here in Perth today!
We had buckets of rain overnight, and now it’s blowing a gale. Sienna and I got caught in a shower this morning, and had to shelter under a tree for what felt like aaaaages and I was cursing myself for not bringing either my raincoat or my phone to call someone to come and rescue us! But it blew over after a while and by the time we’d reached my “photo spot” my hair had received a nice blow-dry courtesy of Mother Nature. Well, that is just about the only type of drying it ever gets apart from in the salon, of course. Only my hairdresser knows how to tame the savage beast 🙂
Anyhow I was pretty pleased with our timing, because just as we walked back through the door the rain came down again!
The rest of my day involves super-exciting office work, but I may get time to nip out to the fabric store later on this arvo. I’m sure hoping so, since I’ve now decided I absolutely need lining to finish off my latest project. Later tonight I am meeting up with velosewer for drinkies and dinner; sooooo looking forward to lots of sewing goss!

min 14C, max 20C, wind and rain, sun and clouds… everything!

Details:
Top; from Pattern Magic, charcoal knit, details here
Skirt; self-drafted, charcoal knit, details here
Leggings; self-drafted, red jersey knit, details here, and using my own tutorial for drafting your own custom-fit tights/leggings here
Shoes; Perrini; I’ve had these so long I can barely remember where I bought them….

Family’s mmm13; Craig is again wearing this shirt. I’m seriously considering hiding shirts to make him rotate them more frequently from now on….
Burda 7767, blue cotton, details here and my review of this pattern here

Posted in: Uncategorized \ Tagged: daily outfit, MMM13, Sienna

neutrals

07/05/2013 7:20 am \ 21 Comments \ Carolyn

Yesterday I met up with my usual group of friends for morning tea, and today I met up with another group of different friends for another morning tea! It’s been gorgeous; a delightfully sociable start to the week. I’m giddy with chatting!
Outfit thoughts; I have spent the day alternately feeling too hot and then too cold in this skirt. Something about faux leather does that, I think, and particularly because I followed the pattern and made the waistband to be a one-piece fold-over, and thus have the leather to the inside, as the inner waistband facing as well. Now I’m wise as to how faux leather feels against the skin (kinda yucky) I’m thinking of altering this so it has a fabric waistband facing … at some mythical point in the future when I don’t have any other sewing plans. HAHAHA!! Oh dear…. no other sewing plans. I crack myself up sometimes.

min 15C, max 25C, sunny, then cloudy, then a measly few mm of rain

Details:
Shirt; Vogue 1248, beige silver polka-dotted cotton, details and my review of this pattern here
Cardigan; my own design of coffee and white net, pre-dates my blog, but seen first here
Skirt; Vogue 1170, faux leather, details and my review of this pattern here
Shoes; Enrico Antinori

If you’re wondering where my usual photo companion is? well she is here, but not right here. She’s just out of the frame today 🙂

Updating my unsuspecting family’s participation in MMM13, Craig is wearing this shirt again today; modified Burda 7767, blue cotton, details here
He can wear a shirt a few days in a row you see, since he changes to spend most of his day in scrubs. This is a huge bonus to the laundry-maid of the house.

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blue, with cardigan

06/05/2013 9:00 am \ 19 Comments \ Carolyn

Looking at this picture, I’ve just realised that my outfit is vaguely early 50’s, a la “A Place to Call Home”; with my long-skirted, waisted dress, a little cardigan and oxford-style shoes. Ha! A subliminal influence! But I am enjoying all the visual styling, the clothing and home deco in the show so much! You?
I’ve just had a look on the net for images of the women’s fashion worn in the series and there is practically nothing 🙁 But I’m sure there will be, soon!
This is the first morning I’ve “felt” cold even though the temps aren’t really lower today than so far for this month. Funny, that. It’s not even windy, but is just as still as still could be.
After I finish in the office I’m sewing. Nothing will stop me. I’ve had an autumnal dress on the go for about a month. Seriously! I’ve been plodding along, but I think I’d better get cracking so it can be worn just a few times before autumn is out!

Min 15C, max 25C, cloudy

Details:
Dress; self-drafted, using a design from Pattern Magic 2 by Tomoko Nakamichi, blue cotton, details here
Cardigan; knitted by me, the fitted cardigan with lace edging and three-quarter sleeves, in Jo Sharp Soho Summer DK Cotton; colour Calico (shade 216), details here
Shoes; Bronx, from Zomp shoes

For my family, Craig in particular; this day has been absolutely chocka with me-made-nesses! For activities with varying dress standards; Craig has worn this business shirt, switched over to this short sleeved shirt, then finished up in this hoodie for another part of his day. Whoa! And Cassie wore this Tshirt today.

Craig’s shirts; both Burda 7767, details of striped shirt here, details of blue shirt here
Craig’s hoodie; self drafted, details here
Cassie’s shirt; self drafted, details here

Posted in: Uncategorized \ Tagged: daily outfit, MMM13, Sienna

not-so-new

05/05/2013 9:17 am \ 27 Comments \ Carolyn

Hello, from the both of us.
I wanted to wear this little white linen top but none of my skirts felt very inspiring so I randomly threw it on over this dress. And discovered that the lower band of the top is close to exactly the same circumference as the dress at this point; meaning that when I am wearing them together like I am here, it appears not like two separate items but like a complete dress in itself.
It’s like I’ve discovered a whole new item of clothing in my wardrobe!!
Score!

min 13C, max 24C, sunny

I am the only one in my family wearing clothes made by me today

Details:
Top; the bamboo shoot top, self-drafted, white linen, the front is the bamboo shoot design from Pattern Magic by Tomoko Nakamichi, details here
Dress; based on Burda 8511, aqua linen with orange silk wave-y welted pockets, details here
Shoes; Bensimon, from seed

Posted in: Uncategorized \ Tagged: daily outfit, MMM13, Sienna

may the fourth be with you

04/05/2013 12:47 pm \ 25 Comments \ Carolyn

International Star Wars Day, hehe 🙂
So, here I’m on my way out for a day of shopping, including a visit to Spotlight to check out the $5 patterns. I bought one. Very restrained, I thought.
Yeah. (smile) OK.
Now for the guilty confession; I’m a bit late with the report of my stash-busting pledge for last month… probably because it’s so embarrassing to admit that last month the stash did not diminish one little bit. In fact, it has er, expanded somewhat. Expanded, considerably.
I made three items in April, only one of which was a bonafide stash-bust; my faux leather jacket. My navy corduroy skirt was a refashion from January, but I’m counting it since I only just blogged it last month, and the “bossy” dress I’m just going to consider a completely separate thing apart from the stash-busting challenge.
And … when I visited my parents for Easter, Mum gave me a rather, er, huge pile of fabric, lovely fabric that had been set aside for me by a very generous friend who was cleaning out her stash. So very kind of her. So my stash has gained roughly something like ten new pieces of fabric of various sizes.
Lots of productivity is definitely in order 🙂

min 12C, max 24C, sunny

Details:
Top; Vogue 1309, hand-painted silk dupion, details and my review of this pattern here
Skirt; Vogue 1247, purple denim dyed brown, details and my review of this pattern here
Shoes; Betts&Betts, about 20 yrs old

In me-made-maying efforts for my family; Tim wore this shirt today, and Cassie wore this dress to a party this evening

Tim’s shirt; Burda 7767 blue check fabric, details here.
Cassie’s dress; no pattern, moss green silk, details here

Posted in: Uncategorized \ Tagged: daily outfit, MMM13, stashbusting 2013

water

03/05/2013 6:55 am \ 24 Comments \ Carolyn

One of my favourite things about the me-made months are the photo theme days. Today’s theme is Water! aaaand I suspect I’m totally failing in creativity here and displaying nought but amazing predictability, but I can think of no better excuse for me to take Sienna to Dog Beach, which is only, like, her very favourite place in the whole wide world. I know, shouldn’t need an excuse, right? But sometimes, we do.
In other news, today I am being interviewed over at Seamstress Erin, on, what else? but our shared love of style and sewing.
Thank you Erin! 🙂

min 13C, max 24C, sunny

Details:
Top; Vogue 1247, orange cotton, details and my review of this pattern here
Capris; Vogue 1115, sand stretch sateen, details and my review of this pattern here
Thongs; Havaianas

My family is sorta? keeping up in the me-made fashion stakes, Craig is wearing this shirt again today. I’m thinking my “keep quiet and let it organically happen” approach is not going to lead to much variety in this side of things.
(Burda 7767, shirting cotton, details here)

Speaking of water, and the ocean, and freaky things; oh sorry, we weren’t? Oh well, we are now… check out this deep deep sea creature…
How freaky?!

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post downpour

02/05/2013 7:32 am \ 17 Comments \ Carolyn

Thanks to all for the thumbs up yesterday, and I apologise for my very bad explanation, and should clarify with a more complete one: I’m pretty sure the “boring” comments aimed at me-made month-ers in general, that I’ve read on mine and on plenty of other blogs too, are more directed at the fact that a whole bunch of daily outfit posts can become monotonous and particularly for people not so interested one person’s personal style and the pursuit of understanding and creating it, but who are only in it for the sewing tips and techniques etc. And, sure, I understand that point of view. I even “get” it, but only a little bit, since I’m a nosey parker; head-over-heels into checking other ladies’ personal style and adore seeing different ways people mix-and-match up their clothes. And particularly if they are making it all themselves. Insatiably interested!
I didn’t intend to come off mope-y. But a big thank you for the vote of confidence :))
Last night we had torrential rain; which is awesome stuff for Perth. Of course, only this morning did a lightbulb go off that I should totally have nipped out yesterday and fertilised the garden… doh! It could be ages before we get another good soaking!
And I know from experience not to fertilise now, after the rain. Not a good idea, without an imminent watering-in. The neighbours will hate me, the family will refuse to sit outside for dinner. The only household member to be over the moon at my thoughtfulness will be Sienna, who will express her joy and appreciation by rolling blissfully and thoroughly in said fertilised beds, crushing plants, whatever, and then want to come in and rub her odiferous self against the sofa and everybodies’ legs. And then be hurt and bewildered by the enthusiasm of everyone’s rejection.

min 15C, max 23C, and a bit of everything today! some cloud, some sun, some rain

Details:
Top; Vogue 1115, lightweight cotton denim, details and my review of this pattern here
Skirt; Vogue 8363 with modifications, burnt orange raw silk, details here and my review of this pattern here
Shoes; Enrico Antinori

I have one other family member wearing a me-made item today; Tim is wearing this brown linen shirt. I asked if I could take another picture, to which he replied; You’ve taken one already, haven’t you? Um… yeah. I’d better not push my luck.