- Monday, May 1: My favorite thrifted jeans (RTW), a casual button-down shirt (RTW), Lofoten sweater, light brown handknit socks, and Geneva underwear
- Tuesday, May 2: Purple Smartwool tights (RTW), my navy gathered skirt, half-slip, plum-colored long-sleeved t-shirt (RTW), blue sweater (RTW), Geneva underwear, and my green lace shawl
- Wednesday, May 3: Favorite thrifted jeans (RTW), mushroom socks, long-sleeved t-shirt (RTW), Lofoten sweater
- Thursday, May 4: Blue tiered skirt, long-sleeved t-shirt (RTW), mended striped cashmere sweater (RTW with a visible mend by me)
- Friday, May 5: Lady skater dress, the same blue sweater I wore on Tuesday
- Saturday, May 6: In the morning I was gardening so I didn't wear any me-mades. In the afternoon I changed into my brown floral skirt, a pink short-sleeved t-shirt (RTW), and aqua cable henley sweater (RTW)
- Sunday, May 7: Blue Washi dress, yellow cardigan (RTW)
What I made:
Well, I immediately strayed from my intention to only make for myself in May. I ran out of time to finish a little dress for my cousin's baby that needed to be finished before the last week of May, so I finished that up. And I realized that two little boys in my family are turning two at the end of May/beginning of June, so I ordered fabric to make a little polo shirt for each of them. Then I started sewing on a top for me. I had hoped to finish it during the first week of May, but didn't quite make it. I still need to adjust and finish the side seams and do the hemming and finishing.
On the knitting front, I frogged the skew socks on the left in this photo. These two pairs of socks were enough too big that I decided they're unwearable, so part of my plan for May is to re-knit the skew socks using smaller needles and to take out the toes and shorten the feet of the pink socks on the right. Here's what the "new" skew sock looks like right now:
I also did a little bit of spinning - for the first time in many months I'm not knitting things for other people that I feel like I need to prioritize!
What I thought:
I realized that I don't have any me-made shirts. Everything I've made for myself is either a skirt, a dress, socks, a shawl, a sweater, or a winter accessory. Thinking of my wardrobe as a whole, that's not really a problem for casual wear, since I have a pretty wide variety of casual tops, especially tanks and short-sleeved t-shirts. Where I have a big hole is long-sleeved tops, particularly work-appropriate ones. I own enough work tops so that I don't have to iron too unreasonably often, but I don't have very many that I love or even like. Several of them just don't fit and are in colors that I don't feel comfortable wearing. So that will definitely inform my sewing plans going forward.
I've been reading a lot of blog posts lately about capsule wardrobes, and feeling like maybe I should do that for work. But choosing just a few colors to base the whole thing off of feels stressful and restrictive. I'm coming to the realization that while I like the idea of having a relatively small number of items, I can make that work without restricting myself to just 1-2 neutrals and 2-3 accent colors. I'll make (or buy second-hand) things that I like and that I'll wear a lot, and not worry about capsule rules!
I realized that I don't have any me-made shirts. Everything I've made for myself is either a skirt, a dress, socks, a shawl, a sweater, or a winter accessory. Thinking of my wardrobe as a whole, that's not really a problem for casual wear, since I have a pretty wide variety of casual tops, especially tanks and short-sleeved t-shirts. Where I have a big hole is long-sleeved tops, particularly work-appropriate ones. I own enough work tops so that I don't have to iron too unreasonably often, but I don't have very many that I love or even like. Several of them just don't fit and are in colors that I don't feel comfortable wearing. So that will definitely inform my sewing plans going forward.
I've been reading a lot of blog posts lately about capsule wardrobes, and feeling like maybe I should do that for work. But choosing just a few colors to base the whole thing off of feels stressful and restrictive. I'm coming to the realization that while I like the idea of having a relatively small number of items, I can make that work without restricting myself to just 1-2 neutrals and 2-3 accent colors. I'll make (or buy second-hand) things that I like and that I'll wear a lot, and not worry about capsule rules!
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