Week 3

Made it!

Week 2

Days 6, 7 and 8. (I'm doing three days a week.)

Me-Made-May 2013, days 1, 2 and 3. I'm going to wear something I've made or refashion at least three days a week in the month of May.

May 1, blouse refashion

May 2, dress


May 3, blouse (and a mom-made dress)

This is addictive! Saturday, May the Fourth, I tried to put together an outfit that included a me-made-item, but I just couldn't swing it with the cold weather. But I really, really wanted to. And I'm loving the flickr app on my phone to scroll through and see everyone's stuff. It's too awesome having a constant stream of sewing inspiration.

Monster nap

Baby tank.

Amazing things

This Norwegian goat cheese and the annual Textile Center's garage sale.

TA-DA!

These shorts are definitely a test of my patience. Good thing I've watched every season of Project Runway--from that I knew one of my biggest challenges would be lining up the plaid, but that it is an absolute MUST. Another challenge would be how easily this plaid frays. And a third would be how stretchy this 100 per cent cotton actually is because the weave is kind of loose.

With all of that up against me, why use this stupid plaid? Because I bought it and felt bad buying new fabric until I used it no matter how good of a deal. But I couldn't imagine wearing this as a dress or top--something easy--without looking a bit like a mid-20th century time traveller who's here to stay in the "teens" but refuses to adapt. But, not one of those cute ones.

So I probably need to buy some Fray Check before I wear them, but with the way our weather is currently, I have plenty time to do that.

The fabric is from Hobby Lobby and the pattern is from Grainline.

I'm sew fly

I documented the fly-making process so that I could have a reminder of what I'm doing next time I make this pattern. Of course once I finished I found this step-by-step tutorial. So I'll only put up a few to remind myself to Google for these types of things before I get too frustrated.

I made two of these because I confused my left and right side of the shorts. I'm a fool.

I even unzipped my jeans to try to imagine how it'd look. 

Good not great, but...

I did it!