Me Made May 2020 Week One

Its been the first week of memademay2020 and this time I decided rather than bombard you all with photos of me every day on Make’s feed I would pop together a summary of the week in a blog, that way if you want to see my silly face over and over again then you can but it’s not forced on you.

I made a MeMadeMay pledge over on Instagram and that was a couple of makes which I will get started this weekend so we don’t have a repeat of last year.

I would like to make a shirt style dress after being inspired by Liz’s on the Great British sewing bee I have chosen the Shelby Dress by True Bias. Now I know it doesn’t have lots of technical shirt aspects but I think this will ease me in gently, I’m not a shirt wearer so have decided when I do make a shirt it will definitely not be for me but a gift.

The second pledge was to make the Emerson pants which I have wanted to make for ages, another True Bias Pattern.

Lastly to wear me made every day, which I do anyway because I genuinely love everything I make.

So here you go my week in outfits I hope you enjoy.

Friday 1^st May

This was the best launch to MeMadeMay with my last years slow sew my Glide Jacket by Made It Patterns…. I haven’t had much chance to wear this jacket yet what with not going out much and the weather but when I have had the chance I have loved it. You can read all about this sew in my last blog here

Saturday 2^nd May

We were lucky enough to get our reserved pizza from Knead Pizza last week (a po-up sourdough pizza maker who sold out very quickly) so we had to go on a little pick up mission. Sun was shining so while we waited I perched and Mr V clicked, I have one of my Ogden cami Hack dresses on here made in Black Crepe by Atelier Brunette, such beautiful fabric. I have lengthened the overall dress and made the straps wider to cover my bra straps. Very wearable and summery.

Sunday 3^rd May

I took my new Toaster sweater by Sew House Seven for a spin as it was quite a bit cooler.

I have made this a few times before, all as gifts, but wanted one for myself. I have had these wings for quite a while now and couldn’t decide what to sew/iron them on to. Toaster sweater in this heavyish sweatshirt fabric I have had in my stash for ages.

I realized when I came to make it that I only had one metre! Argh! But this was super wide, so I cut it short maybe 2 inches, made the bottom band half the width and didn’t have cuffs and it worked out really well. It does help that I am pretty short, hehe!

Monday 4^th May

A day in the shop and also a couple of deliveries and so I popped on my Sallie Jumpsuit in my Lady McElroy cobra corsage. Such a comfortable wear and I will definitely be making another one. I snuck in a little photo session on one of my deliveries too, of which I cannot seems to upload so having to re-use a photo of my jumpsuit!

Tuesday 5^th May

My trustie Coco dress for another day in the shop. This still remains one of my favourite ever dresses, it’s a lillestoff, organic cotton denim like jersey, I have more jersey from Lillestoff due any day now and as small bolts of only 6 metres I know they won’t hang around. I can’t wait. These images are from just a few of the times I have worm this dress because it wears and washes so well and although on Tuesday I posted a video in the coco apparently I forgot to take a photo. Promise I'll do better next week.

Wednesday 6^th May

This top was my Cashmerette toile of the webster dress/top and this one was on and off for the afternoon while I got the fit right.
I found I measured a 14 so that is the one I went for but it came up very big, I took in the sides by about 3 cm each side, which is fine for the toile as it’s a comfy top I will wear at home but the darts are now definitely not in the right place. I have already re-traced a size 12 and hopefully that will be a better fit. I am going to try it again this weekend I think.

Thursday 7^th May

I sneaked a selfie whilst in the supermarket shopping queue wearing my Tilly and the Buttons Bettine Dress in a peach skin fabric I picked up in a fellow fabric shop. I was also wearing my favourite Morris Blazer which is in a plain black ponte roma. The Morris Blazer is a grainline studio pattern suiting medium weight knit fabrics. I love it because it’s like a smarter cardigan, comfortable to wear but smart at the same time. If anyone is interested the amazing brooch I have on is by a French embroidery company Macon & Lesquoy, so many beautiful and funky designs you should check them out.

Friday 8^th May

It was a bank holiday this Friday and VE Day, Mr V and I spent the day in the garden and had a BBQ in the evening with lots of chatter about where our grandparents would have been and what they would have been up to on that day. I saw lots of people doing there own celebrations with street parties and such so we had our own little celebration. Of course you have to have a frock on for a celebration and so I wore my Grainline Studio Willow Tank dress in Lady McElory cotton lawn.

That’s my weekly round up.

I hope you have enjoyed reading and seeing what I have been wearing. I'll be back again next week.