Wednesday 1 June 2011

MMJ: Day One

Hoorah! Today is the first day of Me-Made-June - a whole month of wearing handmade clothes.  It will be really interesting to see what gets rotated the most, and I'm determined to give everything I've made a spin out of the wardrobe.  In the past few weeks I've been going through all my me-mades, trying to see which pieces work together - I noticed that they fall into three distinct categories:

Category A
Me-made clothes I wear all the time and that I feel are indistinguishable from store-bought clothes.  Happily, about two thirds of my handmade clothes fall into this category.

Category B
Me-made clothes that have been worn once or twice but for some reason haven't really made the grade.

Category C
Me-made clothes that have never been worn.  Ever. 

These are the clothes equivalents of those poor kids that used to always get chosen last for the rounders team.  I feel more than a little sorry for them and a bit guilty too, so one of my objectives is to give the clothes in this category a turn and actually wear them.  There are only three pieces in this category and they're all lovely.  "So why don't you wear them?"  I hear you all cry.  I will. I will. I promise.   

And what did I wear today?  Well, it's half term here in the UK (again) so no dressing up for me today as I have to entertain my sons.  In my experience, small boys are like dogs and need to be regular exercised or they go a bit nuts.  So for the next three days I have to be suitably attired for running around the park and playing football.  On Saturday, when my husband's around and can take over football-playing duties, I'll dress up a bit.  For now...


MMJ: Day One
Top: My second Pendrell blouse, blogged here
Trousers:  Next
Me-Made Category: A


So far, so good.  See you all tomorrow... x

9 comments:

  1. Very nice. You look great. I too, am entertaining my boys and we just got back from hiking. So causal it is for me also. Great job with day 1.

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  2. Casual or not, you look great Jane! I'm so excited to see so many wonderful bloggers that I follow, take part in this challenge. I only hope that by the next me-made/ self-stitched month I have enough stuff to join in!

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  3. Love the idea of categorizing your items ! xx

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  4. I'm looking forward to seeing what falls into the poor children category! x

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  5. Nice photo. Ditto what toboldysew says!

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  6. Hello! Love your Pendrell blouse! I really want to try my hand at one - how did you find sewing it up? :)

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  7. Hi Smashknits and thank you! I'd definitely recommend sewing the Pendrell, I've made two versions and wear them both a lot. It's very easy to sew up and if you're not sure of anything, just follow Sewaholic's instructions on her sewalong posts (there's a button in the right hand column of my blog). The only change I made to the pattern was to narrow the hip width a tiny bit as I'm not pear-shaped and it fitted perfectly. Good luck! x

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  8. I love this on you Jane. You look so pretty. Looking forward to seeing more. I can't wait to be able to do a me-made month! Maybe next year! x

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