Me-Made-May Days 12 and 13

For day 12 I wore Simplicity 1192 for the second time this month. Please excuse the terrible picture, I had just come home and I was really tired.

Today I wore a blouse made from an old sheet. I don't really like it because the collar doesn't sit right, but I am fast running out of things to wear. It's quite good that I am being forced to wear things I don't normally because sometimes I spend ages sewing something and then don't actually end up wearing it.

Me-Made-May Day 11

This is what I wore to uni today. It isn't a very good picture of it but I think this version of Butterick 8459 is my favourite dress that I've sewn. The colours are actually a lot brighter and there are two rows of fabric covered buttons down the front. Said to me by someone today when they found out I'd made this dress, "What? Even the buttons?"

Me-Made-May Day 10

I finished this dress yesterday and wore it to uni today. The bodice is from Butterick 5032 and the skirt is just a rectangle with a box pleat in the front and four more pleats around the sides. I made it using some grey wool blend type fabric I got at Stash reHash. I left it a bit roomy in the bodice so that in the middle of winter (or now) I can wear a thermal and a jersey underneath it. I'm pretty happy about the way it turned out but mostly I'm just glad to have something slightly warmer to wear for MMM than summer dresses.

Me-Made-May Day Nine

Today I wore my gored skirt (again). I can't think of anything interesting to say because trying to understand Karl Popper is making my brain melt.

P.S. This is a neenish tart, Helga!

P.P.S. Happy Mother's Day Mum!

Me-Made-May Day Eight

This was my lazy Saturday outfit. I spent the day reading and baking banana bread and neenish tarts. The skirt is a simple gathered one I made a while ago using vintage fabric. I don't tend to wear it that much because the colour of the flowers seems to clash with most of the clothes I own. It might get some more wear during Me-Made-May though, when I start to run out of clothes.

Me-Made-May Day Seven

For day seven I wore a me made back button blouse. After uni I went to Spotlight and the op shop. I was slightly embarassed at the op shop when I bought a back button blouse and blue vintage gloves while I was wearing um... a back button blouse and blue vintage gloves. I'm nothing if not predictable.
My thought process at the op shop went something like this: Look blue gloves. But I already have blue gloves. I'm actually wearing blue gloves right now. I don't have ones that are this exact shade of blue though. What if I need this exact shade to co-ordinate with an outfit? They are only $4. $4 is the same amount I paid for that horrible cheese scone I bought the other day. These are way better than a cheese scone. I must buy them.
I then found the blouse and repeated it again. This is how you end up with a drawer filled with gloves and too many cute vintage blouses.

Me-Made-May Day Six

I wore Simplicity 3542 today. This was the first vintage pattern I ever sewed so it has the dubious honour of being the dress that turned me into a vintage pattern addict.
I wore it to uni and on the bus on my way home the bus driver said to me, "It's so refreshing to see someone dressed like that." It made me laugh because I thought I looked pretty normal today (in comparasion to what I usually look like) but apparently not.

The hem looks uneven because the crinoline I was wearing was all bunched on one side which I didn't realise until later.