In which I admit to making a pretty pathetic effort of participating in Me Made May

Me Made May finished on last Friday. I mentioned that I'd signed up to this sewing-blogger celebration of craftiness earlier in the month - and that I'd chosen the fairly modest aim of wearing two item of handmade or refashioned clothing per week, and making two items of clothing during the month.

Wearing the handmade bits was rather a doddle. I usually wear skirts to work, and of those I think that just one is non-handmade. Besides which most of my outerwear is hand knit or refashioned - scarves and hats and gloves, and I began the month obsessed with the trench coat that I altered. And it's definitely cold enough to pull out all of my deliciously warm hand knit socks.

I had less success with the making handmade bits to wear. I made myself a nifty fruit jumper, drafting up a larger size of Dixie DIY's Hot Cocoa sweater with some success, giving up on the neck-band part because my fabric was not stretchy enough and I just wanted to wear it, damn it. I like the idea of colouring in or outlining a few of the bits of fruit with embroidery thread, but I haven't put aside the time to do it yet.

I haven't completed anything else for myself, only making a teeny-tiny baby dress for Shannon's step-brother's new little girl, and two solitary socks - as in, two individual socks from different patterns, not a pair. This isn't my best effort, but in my defense I have been trying to spend a little less, and nice fabric is expensive, as is nice yarn. Once you've sewn or knitted with nice materials, it's really difficult to convince yourself to go back to using rubbish. It feels nasty on my hands, darling.

 

Lastly,I have been pretty dreadful at getting photographs of my outfits. For a while I had no memory card for my shitty camera, and as my computer faces a window it's difficult to use the camera on that without terrible glare behind me. I convinced someone at work to take a photograph of my outfit one day - and, with the exception of the one above, that's the only photo I have. 

So, Me Made May hasn't been a great success, but nor has it been a complete failure. If I do it again, I'm going to work on making a concerted effort to get some photos taken, even if it is kind of awkward and I seem incapable of posing non-hammily.