Tag: MMM 18

MMM ’18 – 4

May 22: Summer graduation dress, black bolero
May 23: Sheldon skirt, swallow waterfall top, Isis tailcoat
May 24:  Summer graduation dress, striped shorts

   

May 25: Start of the larp weekend, new striped shorts, dragon shirt during the day, long sleeve larp top, white larp skirt, robin hood hat, larp apron.
May 26: short & long sleeve larp top, white larp skirt, robin hood hat, larp apron.
May 27: short sleeve larp top, white larp skirt, robin hood hat, larp apron, afterwards, striped shorts. 

May 28: Red dungarees, flower shirt (slightly too tight and with the no-sleeves not necessarily comfortable)
May 29: Pinstripe shorts, cat shirt
May 30: Striped sweater, striped shirt with v-neck

May 31: Striped sweater, striped shirt with round neck

No obvious throw outs this time around. I did re-discover the red dungarees, which I forgot I owned, so that was nice.

I have been quite productive since last time. The hemmed skirt/pants has had its straps attached and finished. I had to make a short sleeved larp top since it was going to be way too warm that weekend for my regular long sleeved one. The pattern was reused to create a more regular wear shirt and a small octopus was knit. I’m going to write blog posts on all of those still.

For now, MMM ’18 was a success for me. I managed to finish some projects that I should have finished ages ago. I also identified some problems in the wardrobe and managed to fix a few of those and I will still fix others. Some old favourites were rediscovered and some old duds have been discarded. Now the challenge comes of wearing some of my dresses and skirts outside of May or special events…

MMM ’18 – 3

Lots of decisions made, projects finished and clothes worn.

May 13: Winter graduation dress (another version)
May 14: Blue plaid pants, grey sweater with leather
May 15: Convocation/Wedding dress, white knit shrug

May 16: Winter graduation dress (yet another one), circle scarf – Problems with pockets, combining with clothes and itchiness
May 17: Grey pleat pants, eyelet sweater
May 18: Red plaid skirt, new dotted shirt (replaced the old version), Frances sweater

May 19: Cat shirt, brown knit sweater
May 20: Sport skort with pockets (because I went skating all day)
May 21: Mondriaan dress

So I’ve made a new dotted shirt to replace the old version. This one has a hem that comes up at the sides, like a button down shirt. The other resolution to chop of the stains on the green kiwi pants has also worked. I now have green knee length culottes. One of the other things I’d also resolved to do was finally replace the buttons of a bought jacket. Some of the buttons were really scuffed and it annoyed me, it took me 2-3 hours on wedding day, but it has happened!

I’m also going to donate the high low winter graduation dress. While it has short sleeves, it doesn’t really combine with any tops, it’s really itchy and the pockets are not very accessible. I also don’t feel very nice in it, so it will be relegated to the donation pile. The same goes for the Gaia sweater which I never ever wear. I just feel so terrible in it. I’ve also donated the colourful Maimu scarf to my mother. She might get more wear out of it as I never use it.

 

Byebye to these items!

Projects that are still on the go are to fix the sleeves of the riding jacket that shrunk hideously in the wash and are now, not even kidding, 6.5 cm too short. I’m also going to try to finish up a full length circle pant-skirt-thing that has actually been hemmed today (!) but now needs to have the straps and top edge finished. I also have 2.5 more knitting projects (1.5 sock and a poncho-type-item) that I need to get done at some point.

A lot to do and a bit more than a week to go, but so far, so good!

MMM 18 – 2

So far so good in Me-Made-May 18. I developed a cold on the 3rd of May, leaving me only wanting to wear easy pants options that I already knew worked for wearing. So far, none of the options have been unsatisfactory, so I think that’s good news.

May 3: knit sweater, circle scarf;
May 4: blue plaid pants, cat shirt, knit sweater;
May 5: eyelet sweater, forest blouse, hand-crank jeans;

May 6: white dot shirt, kiwi pants (These now have orange stains, only way to keep on wearing them is to shorten them);
May 7: circle scarf, black bolero, white bolero (but too cold for that particular day), blue graduation dress, striped shorts; 
May 8: new black shorts and white dot shirt;

May 9: different blue graduation dress (too tight in the front armpit, too wide across the top bust), striped shorts, circle scarf, black bolero;
May 10: green plaid pants, bicycle shirt;
May 11: Harry Potter sweater, grey fake sweatpants, striped shirt;

May 12: winter graduation dress

There are some items that still work but that have seen better days and that might just need to be relegated to the ‘used cloth’ pile and be replaced with similar versions. This mainly concerns the white dot shirt.

From all the outfits pictured above, the only one that had issues concerning fit/wear was the blue graduation dress with darker blue piping. It’s still a bit tight at the front armhole, making computer work uncomfortable. It’s also too wide across the front, which possibly is not helped by the armhole issue. I remember this dress needed extensive re-figuring of the top, so this is probably the reason.

I also managed to ruin an item of clothing. There seems to be a plant (and/or evil weed) in my garden that releases orange fluid when pulled out of the ground. Some came on the green pants and will not come out. In order to make them wearable again, I may need to shorten them to knee-length or possibly even further up. This also means that I need to replace this type of pants (very lightweight and summery) in my closet – i.e. more projects!

On to the rest of May, where I hope to actually wear more of the dresses I own and clearly never wear.

Tantalus Scarf & MMM ’18

I seem to have been quite productive in the past few weeks and have managed to churn out four finished projects and one knit sweater that only needs half a sleeve and a hem. So prepare for the onslaught of posts in the coming few days.

To start. the most boring one: another circle scarf. This one has cats and birds. So it is a in a Tantalus state, never catching the bird and never getting truly away from the cat. As usual, these types of scarves are quite a quick little project, so after finishing this I actually started to go through all my pattern magazines in search of tops and pants. I made notes, copied patterns onto pattern paper and then called it a day.

I’ve also decided to participate in Me-Made-May ’18 again.

While I may have forgotten that May started yesterday, I did actually wear something me-made. Namely the straight sports-skort, which definitely fits into the ‘keep & wear’ pile. Today it was the eighties revival sweater with polka-dot scarf, also keep & wear. Only 29 more days with potentially a lot more non-pants items since I tend to not wear the dresses and skirts nearly as much.