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May Moves Ever Onward

Laura — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:48:15 +0000

This month is passing so quickly I can hardly keep my head on straight. I continue to put homemade garments on my body every day, but the outfits are starting to repeat, and in the interest of not boring the pants off anyone, I’m not sharing them all here. But I did make a new [...]

What’s Happening Here

Laura — Thu, 16 May 2013 00:05:03 +0000

I’m still attempting to wear something I’ve made every day. So far, there has been only one day when I didn’t, and that’s because I had to wear a suit for a fancy meeting and all of my suitable self-mades were in the wash. The picture above is me, at work, and that skirt is [...]

Me Made May, Day 10: The Sencha Blouse

Laura — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:37:41 +0000

The shortage of me-made tops around these parts became glaringly obvious to me when I started trying to wear them. I decided to remedy this situation, and fast, by finally making the Colette Pattern’s Sencha blouse I’ve been thinking about for awhile now. I bought this awesome cotton voile a few months ago, and had [...]

Me-Made May, Day 9

Laura — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:23:41 +0000

This is the skirt I meant to share with you all over a month ago. I like to call it The Desk Set skirt. It’s a lined wool pencil skirt made from the pencil skirt pattern in Gertie’s New Book for Better Sewing. I bought the wool in Seattle, where I fell in love with [...]

Me Made May, Day 8

Laura — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:39:52 +0000

Rolling right along, and still wearing me-made clothes. Love it! This outfit even includes a me-made necklace, oen of my favorite pieces I’ve made so far. But the top is the garment of the day. This is based on the Portrait Blouse from Gertie’s awesome New Book for Better Sewing. This top almost didn’t make [...]

Me Made May, Day 7

Laura — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:23:37 +0000

This skirt is my most recent creation, and I love it. I did the bulk of the work on Sunday afternoon, and finished up some fitting and the hem last night, which makes this perhaps the fastest thing I’ve ever sewn. It is also the most well-made thing I’ve sewn to date: the seams are [...]

Me-Made Weekend

Laura — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:18:49 +0000

I did manage to continue my Me-Made experiment through the weekend, although I’m coming to the end of the home-sewn garment collection. I got A LOT of sewing done this weekend, though, and I suspect that trying to wear my own garments every day this month is going to light a fire under my ass. [...]

Me Made May, Day 3

Laura — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:09:19 +0000

So far so good! Today I’m wearing my polka dot version of Colette’s Sorbetto. The Sorbetto is a free pattern download, so if you haven’t yet gotten your hands on it, I’d check it out immediately. It’s a pretty easy little top to sew, and very comfortable and versatile. Like nearly all of my sewing [...]

Me Made May, Day 2

Laura — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:41:45 +0000

Forgive the not-so-awesome cell phone picture. I managed to put another me-made garment on my body today: This drape neck tank top was the first thing I made when I dragged my sewing machine out of hibernation last year. I bought the knit fabric online years ago, when I first started getting into sewing. I [...]

My Pollyanna Summer Dress

Laura — Wed, 01 May 2013 23:38:47 +0000

It might still be spring by the calendar, but in Oakland, it feels like glorious summer. It’s been a stunning week here, and my latest sewing project was completed just in time. This dress took a bit longer than I anticipated. I hit a few snags, and it turned out a little, um, asymmetrical. But [...]