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Me-Made-May 13 – week 5 round up
And its over….
This final week I wore nothing but repeats so I won’t bore you with photos of my outfits.
This was my second year of Mmm13 and I’m a little disappointed with my performance. But hey that’s how you learn right, by examining how to improve in the future.
Quick maths using my photos and unblogged repeats meant I achieved 21 days out of 31… Oh that’s quite nice I suppose but I wanted to do 26 really!
What did I learn about Me-Made-May?
I liked trying to make my photos of a better quality with a variety of locations and different posing.
My will to upload pics to flickr dissolved around the time I was packing for my holidays. Sorry lovely flickr peeps but the android app is horrendous to use.
I liked adding an extra challenge with my polka dot week.
What did I learn about my me-made wardrobe?
I have plenty of me-made tops. I said this in a previous post but I started out sewing thinking I’d make oodles of dresses, but ended up with oodles of tops!
I need more day dresses. Especially since my office has relaxed its dress code. I need dresses that make me happy but don’t look too formal. I know the best way to do this is make cotton sun dresses so I am going to put that into action.
I don’t like any of my me-made skirts as they fit terribly (I didn’t wear them a single day!) and I hope to rectify this soon: I’ve signed up a to a skirt pattern drafting course.
If I can nail the fit of skirts for my body shape I’d like to make a beignet, a classic circle skirt, and possibly a kelly skirt.
I also fell back in love with a dress I very rarely wear. It’s just a touch too short but that’s easily fixable on a second version.
Will I do MMM next year?
I think I’ll give myself the year off next time. I enjoyed this year as much as last year but I think I’d prefer to sit back and look at everyone’s posts, take inspiration and let myself choose me-made items for my daily wardrobe on a more relaxed basis.
I hope you found MMM13 enjoyable if you were taking part or just soaking up inspiration!
I really enjoyed finding new blogs to follow as well as swooning over wonderful outfits.
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Me-Made-May 13 – week 3: Uh oh this isn’t going as well as I’d hoped
Why oh why are there five weeks in May! At least we’re at the half way point.
After a recent comment from Roisin I’ve upped my ridiculous expressions in my posing. It’s all for your entertainment.
I found this week hard because a) the weather was absolutely rubbish b) I have fallen out of love with some of my me-mades so they didn’t even make it out of the drawer when I looked and them and c) I’m in holiday prep mode so I have loads of 90% finished items I could have worn this week if I’d been more organised.
New Look 6808 with button-back alteration and cute birdcage fabric. This wrinkles like a mofo though!
New Look 6808 with contrast pink collar (when I wear this with my leopard print shoes I feel like I’m impersonating Anna from Paunnet)
Self-drafted green bias stripe dress. I made this before the top version from week 1!
This horrible old me-made top has fab colours but terrible construction. I think I’ll be binning this one. You can see from my sulky face that I hate it
Other than that I wore repeats which I won’t bore you with!