Me Made May Days 23-27

Day 23 was the beginning of the packing for our holiday so I dug out a t shirt I'd tie dyed. Not sure I like it but at least it had an airing.

Day 24 I thought I'd better give my sorbetto top an outing before I made another. It's definitely too short - need to work out what to do with it. Other than that it was very comfy so I made another - 3 inches longer!

Day 25 required me to look respectable for a class photograph so out came the new simplicity 8523 top. Bit tight around the sleeves and the bottom (didn't do the slit sides through laziness ) but very wearable. It's also washed brilliantly and doesn't need ironing!

Day 26 needed walking boots for work so the only me made was socks. Until the evening when I needed to look considerably more respectable for a work event. As everything else was being saved for the holiday, out came the flowery skirt yet again.

Day 27 was yet another flowery skirt day as I have nothing else suitable for worn that hadn't been packed for the holiday. I must make a new work skirt!

Me Made May Days 17-22

Oops... bit behind!

Day 17 was patched jeans and hand knit socks because I felt under the weather. Discovered a lack of comfy handmade clothing today!

Day 18 - back to the blue chambray simplicity 2188 blouse and more hand knit socks.

Day 19 was hard. School logo PE kit. Fortunately I'd finished my trainer socks earlier in the week!

Day 20 and simplicity 2188 made an appearance yet again, this time in the floral form. This must be one of favourites as it's the one I've worn the most in May!

Day 21 was the first outing for the simplicity 1203 jersey knit tank top. Super comfy - must make more!

Day 22 and it was back to the simplicity 1080 dottie angel tunic. This is an awful fit, only worn because I was slobbing about at home and we are going away next week so I'm trying to savey favourites for then.

Done quite a lot of sewing this week - the tank top, another simplicity 8523 blouse  (in bargain £3 a metre polycotton from hobbycraft ) and shorts from simplicity 1203 which were made entirely of leftovers from previous projects.

I'm aware I've not worn my green edged skirt yet, and that my navy skirt is waiting to have a smaller waistband so it doesn't fall down. I've also got 2 tops and a pair of shorts as yet unworn so plenty to try out this week.

Me Made May Day 16

I woke up to glorious sunshine so popped on my white broderie anglaise blouse  (simplicity 8523) with crop jeans and sandals. I took a selfie outside and it was so bright I couldn't see the photo.

The clue should have been in the black clouds that appeared behind me in the photo....

By the time I'd done the school run I was back into jeans and hand knit socks - I was frozen!!

I managed to finish the sorbetto top - love the pattern and the way it has come out. I could possibly go down a size or make the bust darts a bit deeper to get a better fit, and I'd certainly make it longer next time.

Me Made May Day 15

I dug out the very first refashion I did for today's me made May. I added a skirt to a t shirt to make a dress to go over leggings. And a ribbon belt.

No, I never wore it.

No, I had no idea what I was doing.

I wore it for a couple of hours,  took it off and got out the stitch ripper!

It's now a much nicer tank top from a free pdf pattern - Sorbetto by Colette. I need to buy bias binding tomorrow for the neck and arms then I can finish it off.

Me Made May Days 12-14

Work gets in the way!

Day 12 was a repeat of the previous Thursday with a simplicity 2188 skirt in a Hobbycraft black flowery cotton, this time with a white t shirt (now relegated to the recycling pile after the two stains on the front were joined by a hole!).

I was so hot when I got home I changed into bought linen trousers with my flowery simplicity 2188 blouse. I wore these for work on Friday (day 13) as it was warm, even though they aren't work clothes. Hand knit socks joined the outfit with my walking boots for the evening.

Day 14 - Saturday - was my first completely me made day. Simplicity 2188 (again!!) blouse and crop trousers, my granny square cardigan and more hand knit socks in walking boots. This was the first time I'd worn the trousers and I soon had to tighten the elastic! (Tip - don't sew up the slot on the waistband until you've worn the item a couple of times and get the elastic exactly right! ).

I've enjoyed this first fortnight. I've worn almost everything (but not quite!) so it will be interesting to see how fed up I get with it all again over the next couple of weeks.

I've also accumulated an every growing mending pile. I don't seem to be managing  to mend in may though!

Me Made May Days 10 and 11

Yesterday was all about my pink linen blouse. I love this, and the matching infinity scarf. I just wish I'd given it a bit more seam allowance - I know now how much linen fray's!  Simplicity 8523 view A. I need to make another blouse in this style.

Today was cold and wet so it was the granny square cardigan and hand knit socks. By the afternoon school run it was boiling and the cardigan had been abandoned!

This afternoon and evening I've done some sewing. The sage green fabric I ordered arrived, so I altered the first skirt I made from a simplicity 2286 pattern - which I've never actually worn! I added a hemless bottom and pockets (from the original pattern) and I like it much better now.

I also sewed up the crop trousers which were one of the pile of unmade clothes I started with at the beginning of the month. They were already cut and just needed sewing. Apart from a moment when the bobbin had a paddy and fell apart, they were incredibly easy to make. The fabric was from Abakhan last year, from a vague pile labelled "trouser fabric" and is lovely and comfy.

Me Made May Day 9

A day for shopping and popping into school meant a day for another simplicity 2188 blouse (I use this pattern a lot!), this time in chambray polycotton. It was an absolute pain to sew - it's so thin I couldn't get the tension right at all - but it was lovely and cool for our hot day.

I've not quite got the spacing between the buttons quite right. Still debating a second attempt at those!