I'm excited for Me-Made-May this year! I've been in a bit of a sewing funk the last couple of months, partly due to limited sewing time, which paradoxically made me waste the sewing time I did have without actually sewing anything. I've also felt kind of bogged down by several gifts I've been making for people - according to my blog, I've made exactly three things for myself in the last year: my Adelaide dress last June/July, the grey cardigan I finished last October (which I wear a lot but don't totally love), and the half-slip I threw together this Spring.
So I'm really excited to focus on making for myself next month. I've been noticing a lot of gaps in my work wardrobe this year: I'm set for slacks, but I don't have enough tops that I really like, and all of my dresses are short-sleeved or sleeveless. First up on my list are a woven t-shirt and a long-sleeved lady skater dress, both in fabric I got from the Hancock's closing sale last Summer. If both of those get finished next month, I'm thinking about a long-sleeved button-up in a beautiful light-orange voile I've had in my stash for a while and a sewn cardigan in a purple scuba knit (also from the Hancock's sale).
I'll try to keep a list of what I've worn each week. I think this project will be helped by the fact that my semester is over as of this weekend, so I won't feel the need to be quite as dressed up at work (almost all of my work wardrobe is ready-to-wear, mostly hand-me-downs or purchased second-hand). The one thing that could put a wrench in my plan of wearing me-mades every day is the weather - so far we've had a pretty cool spring, too cold for me to wear most of the clothes I sewed for myself in the Texas heat. If all else fails I guess I'll wear a lot of sweaters!
I'm looking forward to seeing what you make! We've been living in Paris since December, so I haven't done any sewing in a while, and before we left I was mostly making baby bibs for friends' new arrivals. We won't be back in the US (and hence near my sewing machine) until June, but I might do Self-Made September (Self-Sewn September, to be even more alliterative) to get back in the swing of things.
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