In which my blog post is in a room

I've signed up to the 2013 leg of Me Made May - I think one of my first forays into the projecty world of sewing bloggers.

The idea of Me Made May in it's most basic form is that I make a pledge to wear a certain amount of hand-made or refashioned clothing over the month and make an attempt to record it. My personal pledge is pretty basic really, and I've already managed to wear something that fits the above description every day if we count outer-wear like coats and hats. My pledge:

I will endeavour to wear a self-made or refashioned garment at least twice a week, as well as to sew two new garments for the during May 2013.

I can't help thinking that this project would be even easier for me if the weather was heating up like it is in the Northern Hemisphere - most of my handmade clothes are sleeveless summer frocks, it seems. At any rate, at least I can make notes of the holes in my handmade wardrobe (as it were). I can't help feeling that my refashions are a bit of a cop-out... despite being very proud of some of my refashioning projects (like the lined 70s trench coat that I just shortened and replaced the buttons on. I think it looks great!).

I am also notoriously bad at taking photographs of my outfits (witness, my month of dressing like Peta Mathias in another of my ill-fated projects). I have one photograph from last week but its of a pretty basic refashion - this is a 70s polyester number on which I shortened the sleeves and skirt, as well as doing some remedial pilling work. Ugh, and the photo is terrible. And you can see my leopard-print snuggie thrown on the floor behind me *shakes head in shame*. And I totes need a haircut.



The elephant-in-the-room of this blog post (the blog post is in a room!) is my recent unexplained absence. Basically - the first two weeks I was just lazy and uninspired whenever I was at home (I have list of possible posts that I made on the train and during a particularly dull presentation - they're still good though so am fully intending to use those).

Then, the week and a half around my birthday in mid-March I felt terrible about myself and it took most of my energy to be a fairly normal functioning person in the day to day, and then I had glandular fever and was bed-bound and energy-less for about three weeks.

I've been back at work the last two weeks but when I get home I am tending towards more bed-reading-watching-Downton-Abbey-repeats-and-knitting-socks than blogging. I'm still unsure how I'm going to blog in the evenings given that I tend to be quite tired, but at present I'll just set myself the task of posting once a week and consider anything else as awesome extra. I'm just pleased that I feel like posting, so I'm just going to roll with that.

If you are a sewing person - are you taking part in Me Made May? Why/why not? If you aren't a sewing person - I am sorry for this blog post was probably mostly dull for you :(.